But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea.
— from Timaeus by Plato

v. 18. 19. are verily persuaded that those good works of the Gentiles did so far please God, that they might vitam aeternam promereri , and be saved in the end.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The ‘Poop-poop’ rang with a brazen shout in their ears, they had a moment’s glimpse of an interior of glittering plate-glass and rich morocco, and the magnificent motor-car, immense, breath-snatching, passionate, with its pilot tense and hugging his wheel, possessed all earth and air for the fraction of a second, flung an enveloping cloud of dust that blinded and enwrapped them utterly, and then dwindled to a speck in the far distance, changed back into a droning bee once more.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The sides of this salient angle become so important that every means should be taken to render them impregnable.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

But Æson is not among those congratulating, being now near death, and worn out with the years of old age; when thus the son of Æson addresses Medea : “O wife, to whom I confess that I owe my safety, although thou hast granted me everything, and the sum of thy favors exceeds all belief; still , if thy enchantments can effect this (and what can enchantments not effect?), take away from my own years, and, when taken, add them to those of my father.”
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

You see, with a thing like a marquee,” and he turned to Laura in his easy way, “you want to put it somewhere where it'll give you a bang slap in the eye, if you follow me.”
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

"In the Orphic and Bacchic sects, in the Eleusinian and Samothracian Mysteries, was thus treasured up the secret doctrine of the old theological and philosophical myths, which had once constituted the primitive legendary stock of Greece in the hands of the original priesthood and in the ages anterior to Homer.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

The "Poop-poop" rang with a brazen shout in their ears, they had a moment's glimpse of an interior of glittering plate-glass and rich morocco, and the magnificent motor-car, immense, breath-snatching, passionate, with its pilot tense and hugging his wheel, possessed all Page 45 [Pg 45] earth and air for the fraction of a second, flung an enveloping cloud of dust that blinded and enwrapped them utterly, and then dwindled to a speck in the far distance, changed back into a droning bee once more.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The wind was full west, and by six in the evening I computed I had gone eastward at least eighteen leagues; when I spied a very small island about half a league off, which I soon reached.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

But when I saw his mast-head light go round the pier, like a bright star in the evening sky, and glide towards the sea that was to keep him from me so long when I wanted him so desperately, then I collapsed like a spent bubble, and all my courage went out of me.
— from Materfamilias by Ada Cambridge

Her vouchers for this period consisted of several water-colors; they were done in a violent and slap-dash fashion, and had been inspired, apparently, by scenes in the environs of the capital.
— from With the Procession by Henry Blake Fuller

After becoming sober in the evening, he usually came to offer me the humblest apologies, driven to it, I believe, by his wife, he himself being quite unconscious of this breach of good manners.
— from The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates

Well over six feet tall, still straight as any of the pines before him, his head and broad shoulders in the easy poise of power, there was about him from a little distance no sign of age.
— from The Spenders: A Tale of the Third Generation by Harry Leon Wilson

Under a burning sun I then expose my feeble carcase in a walk round the cursed walls, or traverse the wood where the Rothmantels or ‘Red Cloaks’ and Hussars amused us at cut-and-thrust before the city was taken.
— from Thomas Campbell by J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert) Hadden

From Attica ’s deep-heaving side, Why did the prancing horse rebound, Snorting, neighing all around, With thund’ring feet and flashing eyes— Unless to shew how near allied Bright science is to exercise!
— from The Rolliad, in Two Parts Probationary Odes for the Laureatship & Political Eclogues by Joseph Richardson

When Memphis became the capital of Egypt and the seat of the Pharaoh, its god also became supreme in the Egyptian pantheon.
— from The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

To say that this new moral condition and blessed state is to endure and improve forever, may doubtless be to utter an important truth, but one which does not conflict in the slightest degree with its present existence.
— from Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke