He fixed his eye upon a distant and prominent clump of trees where he had concluded the enemy were to be met, and he ran toward it as toward a goal.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

It was already dark, and Pierre could not make out whether the expression of Prince Andrew’s face was angry or tender.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Yes, Kit told this gentleman to look sharp, and he not only said he would look sharp, but he actually did, and presently came running back with the newest loaves, and the freshest butter, and the largest oysters, ever seen.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

"I am a millionaire," he said, "but I want to tell you that I would give half I have to-day for a decent education." Many a rich man has confessed to confidential friends and his own heart that he would give much of his wealth,—all, if necessary,—to see his son a manly man, free from the habits which abundance has formed and fostered till they have culminated in sin and degradation and perhaps crime; and has realized that, in all his ample provision, he has failed to provide that which might have saved his son and himself from loss and torture,—good books.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Gallo-Romaine (p. 380) describes a dolmen at Plouaret (Côtes-du-Nord) converted into a chapel dedicated to the Seven Saints, and another dolmen at Saint-Germain-de-Confolens (Charente) likewise transformed into a place of worship.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Then, there being now, by reason of the words that Pietro had 460 spoken, no longer any means of making a mare of the young woman, she donned her clothes, woebegone and disconsolate, and Pietro, continuing to ply his old trade with an ass, as he was used, betook himself, in company with Dom Gianni, to the Bitonto fair, nor ever again required him of such a service."
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

These houses of yours are infernal dungeons in which mothers and daughters are persecuted, children are tortured....
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

There was also a dispute at Phocea, concerning a right of inheritance, between Mnasis, the father of Mnasis, and Euthucrates, the father of Onomarchus, which brought on the Phoceans the sacred war.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

Health and disease are physical conditions upon which pleasure and pain, success and failure, depend.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

“Consulta é informe de Don Juan acerca del anterior papel, con la contestacion del Duque al margen; En Caravajales, á 20 de Hebrero de 1601” f. 102 33.
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

Iterum delineavimus scenas erectas super tabulato; in B nudas, in A depictas, additis projecturis coronicum & aliorum ornamentorum.
— from Rules and Examples of Perspective proper for Painters and Architects, etc. In English and Latin: Containing a most easie and expeditious method to delineate in perspective all designs relating to architecture by Andrea Pozzo

I never knawed how ’t was that a sportsman, same as you be, could keep rakin’ awver a job an’ drive a plain chap o’ the soil like me into hell for what I done ten year agone.”
— from Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

He lays hold of those great inventions and discoveries, like railroads and telegraphs and telephones, and demands a perpetual compensation.
— from Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View by Calvin Elliott

He has not told you that the serfs never had the right to quit the land of their lord, how many cudgellings they may have been made to undergo, and how often the lords gambled away between one another, on the throw of a die, a property consisting of five or six families.
— from From Paris to Pekin over Siberian Snows A Narrative of a Journey by Sledge over the Snows of European Russia and Siberia, by Caravan Through Mongolia, Across the Gobi Desert and the Great Wall, and by Mule Palanquin Through China to Pekin by Victor Meignan

But we do not know him with the least certainty, the least approach even to a guess,—such buzzards and dullards and poor children of the Dusk are we, in spite of our Statistics, Unshackled Presses, and Torches of Knowledge;—not eagles soaring sunward, not brothers of the lightnings and the radiances we; a dim horn-eyed, owl-population, intent mainly on the catching of mice!
— from Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle

In it Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha floated about for nine days till all men had been drowned, and as the waters went down the ship rested on Mount Parnassus, and Deucalion and Pyrrha came out and offered sacrifices to Jupiter.
— from Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge