The tumbling goblet the wide floor o'erflows, A stream of gore burst spouting from his nose; Grim in convulsive agonies be sprawls: Before him spurn'd the loaded table falls, And spreads the pavement with a mingled flood Of floating meats, and wine, and human blood.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

King Canute knelt before the altar in prayer; his brothers Eric and Benedict stood by him as a guard with drawn swords; but the King's servant, the treacherous Blake, betrayed his master.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

He is thought to have had a bastard son by her, who is mentioned by Eupolis in his play of 'The Townships,' where Perikles is introduced, asking, "Lives then my son?" to which Myronides answers: "He lives, and long had claimed a manly name, But that he feared his harlot mother's shame."
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

At three o’clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had not yet returned.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

But as each bullet kills a man, it is essential that every Turk shall shoot one of his comrades and be shot by him in turn; otherwise we should have to provide extra Russians to be shot, which would be destructive of the correct solution of our problem.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Gipaángay (gipahiángay) níya ang búlak sa bukag, He placed the flowers carefully in the basket.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[88] when induced to do so by the daughter of her nurse, and by her assistance manages to converse and play with him, avoids being seen by her lover when she is not dressed and decorated, gives him by the hand of her female friend her ear ornament, ring, or garland of flowers that he may have asked to see, always wears anything that he may have presented to her, become dejected when any other bridegroom is mentioned by her parents, and does not mix with those who may be of her party, or who may support his claims.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

The contents struck the end of a rail close by him with such force as to carry it No Knowledge of his Children.—His Person and Circumstances.—Speech at a "Free Soil" Meeting.—G. R. T. Hewes. 501 around, breaking and badly shattering both his legs midway between his ankles and knees He was confined a long time by this wound, and, when able again to walk, both legs had contracted permanent "fever sores."
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

Cupid berry honest, and berry sober; but he only step-husband; and dat I tell him twenty time already, I do t'ink, if trut' was said."
— from Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" by James Fenimore Cooper

But even as he would have given chase, there came a second rifle shot from the trees and Hal felt the breeze as a bullet sped by his ear.
— from The Boy Allies in the Balkan Campaign; Or, the Struggle to Save a Nation by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

Abellino bowed stiffly, biting his lips hard all the time; he was as white as the wall.
— from A Hungarian Nabob by Mór Jókai

Moreover, as has already been said before, he takes greater care than anyone before him to guard against the identification of God's unity with any of the unities, theoretical or actual, in our experience.
— from A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

In New Caledonia, likewise, the wife may be put away because she bores her husband: Letourneau , op.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

Come see the Savior who has saved us, and be saved by him too.
— from Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson

On the other side of the room, hard by the lodgers' keys and candlesticks, with a big stove behind her and a gaslight before her eyes, sits the faithful little portress, watching out the weary hours as wakefully as she can.
— from My Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Wilkie Collins

I laughed, thinking it was intended as a bright speech; but her flushed face assured me that, instead, she was uttering her very heart.
— from Our Girls by Dio Lewis

Sylvester had hardly expected that his father would tell him that, in Lucian’s language, he had made Tennyson take a back seat; but he felt ruffled and dissatisfied.
— from Amethyst: The Story of a Beauty by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge