The line is snatched in a block upon the swifter, and three or four men haul it in and coil it away.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

And the following language of Ezekiel is evidently a sanction of the same heathen custom: "Thus saith the Lord God, Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live."
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

He swore by his sword, the symbol of the god of war, that he did not, as the enemy of Rome, construct a bridge upon the Save.
— 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

Not expecting to come on the enemy down by the stream, and having stumbled on him in the fog, hearing no encouraging word from their commanders, and with a consciousness of being too late spreading through the ranks, and above all being unable to see anything in front or around them in the thick fog, the Russians exchanged shots with the enemy lazily and advanced and again halted, receiving no timely orders from the officers or adjutants who wandered about in the fog in those unknown surroundings unable to find their own regiments.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And Lancelot answered nothing, but he went, And at the inrunning of a little brook Sat by the river in a cove, and watched The high reed wave, and lifted up his eyes And saw the barge that brought her moving down, Far-off, a blot upon the stream, and said Low in himself, 'Ah simple heart and sweet, Ye loved me, damsel, surely with a love Far tenderer than my Queen's.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

I would have wished them destroyed right away, but—Besides, what are the owners of those houses going to buy from me if they are all poor, all equally beggars?” “You can always buy up their shacks for a trifle.”
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

As I have remarked already, they enslave the nobler natures, and being unable to satisfy their pleasures, they praise temperance and justice out of their own cowardice.
— from Gorgias by Plato

As country peasants set their hounds on to a homed stag or wild goat—he has taken shelter under rock or thicket, and they cannot find him, but, lo, a bearded lion whom their shouts have roused stands in their path, and they are in no further humour for the chase—even so the Achaeans were still charging on in a body, using their swords and spears pointed at both ends, but when they saw Hector going about among his men they were afraid, and their hearts fell down into their feet.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Reluctant to act , but unwilling to stand idle, Burwell was in a pitiful state of indecision.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

On August 5, 1779, the executors of John Alexander sold to Thomas Wilkinson "a half acre lott lying and being upon the South side of Duke Street and the West Side of St. Asaph Street and described by the number 175," the ground rent of which was £14 10s .
— from Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria by Gay Montague Moore

“I am quite content that you should look on our fortunes as bound up together,” said he, slowly and with curious emphasis.
— from Well, After All-- by Frank Frankfort Moore

This may be accomplished by using two sparking-plugs in the cylinder instead of one, and experiments have shown that it is possible to gain from twenty-five to thirty per cent.
— from Aviation Engines: Design—Construction—Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pagé

Provided, always, That it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons that have formerly obtained any grant or grants, under the Lord's proprietors, for any tract or parcels of lands within the aforesaid boundaries, upon the said Indians deserting or leaving the said lands, to enter, occupy and enjoy the same according to the tenor of their several grants.
— from Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians by Elias Johnson

This was where yesterday, a charrette, laden with forest trunks, had upset and broken upon the sharp turn, fortunately, however, without killing either mules or drivers, as is too often the case in these waggon accidents.
— from A Lady's Tour in Corsica, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Gertrude Forde

As Galatea in a ballet upon the story of Pygmalion, she wore nothing, we are told, "in addition to her bodice and under petticoats, but a simple robe of muslin draped after the manner of a Greek statue."
— from A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook

From one of the houses, which had grown almost black under the storms of three centuries, the street had received its name.
— from At the Ghost Hour. The House of the Unbelieving Thomas by Paul Heyse

No, the dream is not impossible of fulfilment; but, at present, our efforts are almost entirely wasted because they are built upon the shifting sand and not upon the steady rock .
— from Radiant Motherhood: A Book for Those Who are Creating the Future by Marie Carmichael Stopes

But burn me up with my arms, all that I possess, and construct for me a barrow upon the shore of the grey sea, the memorial of an unfortunate man, so that I may be known even to those who shall be hereafter."
— from The Heroic Age by H. Munro (Hector Munro) Chadwick