" Miss Bart went with the Gormers to Alaska; and the expedition, if it did not produce the effect anticipated by her friend, had at least the negative advantage of removing her from the fiery centre of criticism and discussion.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

After they had lovingly regaled him with the golden mead, Allfather bade him follow to the Urdar fountain, where the Norns were ever busy weaving their web.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

By his order, the soldiers burst in the tower-door; when, stationing guards to defend it from the now surging mob, the chief, accompanied by his former associate, climbed the winding stairs.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

For the present I shall not interfere in the dispute between Noodt and Binkershoek; how far, or how long this unnatural practice had been condemned or abolished by law philosophy, and the more civilized state of society.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

But his enemies feared that he would have the army for him if he were tried immediately, and that the people might relent in favour of the man whom they already caressed as the cause of the Argives and some of the Mantineans joining in the expedition, and did their utmost to get this proposition rejected, putting forward other orators who said that he ought at present to sail and not delay the departure of the army, and be tried on his return within a fixed number of days; their plan being to have him sent for and brought home for trial upon some graver charge, which they would the more easily get up in his absence.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

[6404] He cast him into a sleep again, and brought him forth, that when he awaked he might tell others he had been in Paradise.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In March, 362 he left Antioch and crossed the Euphrates, visited Carrhae, memorable for the defeat of Crassus, then crossed the Tigris, and, after burning his fleet, retired northwards towards Armenia.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

"Tessy!" came from behind her, and Clare sprang across the gully, alighting beside her feet.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

And they say that when he shall come into another world, he shall not be without an house, ne without horse, ne without gold and silver; and the mare shall give him milk, and bring him forth more horses till he be well stored in the tother world.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Curiously enough, the tying of this particular knot was facilitated by the fact that the clergyman was hale mentally but decrepit physically, and, as might be expected, resented the conclusion, long ago arrived at by his friends, that he was unfitted for work.
— from One Wonderful Night: A Romance of New York by Louis Tracy

Their income, at all times small, had been annihilated by the father's death; they left the white-walled villa, and after bidding him farewell for ever in a letter, and thanking him for his friendship to her father, and some few tender recollections on her own account, Alice had begged him to forget her!
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various

Soon, however, like the god at Philippi, she swept upon the poet and bore him from the field.
— from The Marriage of William Ashe by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

So he called together all the [ 172 ] people, and the buffaloes and the trees, to come and bid him farewell.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 4 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

She says there is a baby here from Furnes with both legs off, and a nun who lost an arm as she was praying in the garden of her convent.
— from Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front by Mary Roberts Rinehart

And, therefore, I, who from a boy Have felt an almost English joy In England's undecaying might, And England's love of truth and right, Next to my own young country's fame
— from Poems of Henry Timrod; with Memoir by Henry Timrod

The sudden joy was almost painful, and before her father reached her, she was sobbing.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

It comes through such [Pg 270] agencies as birds, hay fed to teams engaged in lumbering, and the overflow of streams; and as soon as it gets a foothold its distribution is further accelerated by the droppings of cattle which contain the seeds, and by the winds.
— from Clovers and How to Grow Them by Thomas Shaw