Shelley, struck by the beauty and promise of "Hyperion," sent a generous invitation to the author to come to Pisa and live with him; but Keats refused, having little sympathy with Shelley's revolt against society.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

O, she did so course o'er my exteriors with such a greedy intention that the appetite of her eye did seem to scorch me up like a burning-glass!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The book of Genesis constitutes, as has been shown, a general introduction to the account which follows of the establishment of the theocracy; and it is indispensable to the true understanding of it.
— from Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows

Cigarette had known well how it would be with them; she had accompanied such escorts many a time; and ever and again when they halted she dismounted and came to them, and mixed wine with some water that she had slung a barrel of to her saddle, and gave it to them, and moved their bandages, and spoke to them with a soft, caressing consolation that pacified them as if by some magic.
— from Under Two Flags by Ouida

she did so course o'er my exteriors with such a greedy intention that the appetite of her eye did seem to scorch me up like a burning-glass.
— from The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

He next took a black stone and gave it to Thorston, and said, "If you hide this stone in the palm of your hand no one will see you.
— from The Fairy Mythology Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries by Thomas Keightley

Though the Senses of Hearing and Sight are good in themselves, they are yet apt to give a Horse a Habit of Working by Rote and of himself, which is bad and dangerous.
— from A New System of Horsemanship by Claude Bourgelat

"It shall be done, senor," promised the servant, and going into the tent appeared a moment later with a basket.
— from The Young Engineers in Mexico; Or, Fighting the Mine Swindlers by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

Those not yet in the trench began a retreat along the inner line of wire entanglement and over the sand bags away from the shooting and going into the trench at a point farther
— from The Brighton Boys in the Trenches by James R. Driscoll