In these dialogues, my sister spoke to me as if she were morally wrenching one of my teeth out at every reference; while Pumblechook himself, self-constituted my patron, would sit supervising me with a depreciatory eye, like the architect of my fortunes who thought himself engaged on a very unremunerative job.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Mars and dread Enyo led them on, she fraught with ruthless turmoil of battle, while Mars wielded a monstrous spear, and went about, now in front of Hector and now behind him.
— from The Iliad by Homer

And ordinarily the only kind of Justice which we try to realise is that which consists in the fulfilment of contracts and definite expectations; leaving the general fairness of Distribution by Bargaining to take care of itself.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

They sat dejected on the ground with compressed lips and downcast eyes, listening to their comrade below.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

As devout Eckerman lifted the linen sheet from the naked corpse of Goethe, he was overwhelmed with the massive chest of the man, that seemed as a Roman triumphal arch.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

We also may hence learn the true notion Josephus had of demons and demoniacs, exactly like that of the Jews and Christians in the New Testament, and the first four centuries.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

We have already had occasion to show how hard it is to translate a strictly local and dialectical expression like this into a generic term.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

In that country the Eve of St. Peter’s Day (the twenty-ninth of June) is celebrated by bonfires and dances exactly like those which commemorate St. John’s Eve.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

One Salmon of London prepared and sold Potestates cranii humani at the sign of the "Blew Bull," in Shoe Lane, during the sixteenth century; oleum humanum has within man's memory been a source of advantage to the porters of our medical schools; and, at a date even later than that of which we treat, a physician practising hard by Dartmoor received applications for the magic antidote from one who found herself in private trouble beyond reach of common drugs.
— from Sons of the Morning by Eden Phillpotts

She sang "Mignon," and at the conclusion of the performance she was presented by King Oscar with a decoration exactly like those given to Lind and Nilsson.
— from Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday by Henry Charles Lahee

( c ) We may, again, learn another great truth from this incident, and that is, that the primitive Church was no ideal communion, but a society with failings and weaknesses and discontent, exactly like those which exist in the Church of our own times.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 1 by George Thomas Stokes

On this fourth day after the ball, at dusk, Eugene left the Hotel de Soissons, and took the way, as usual, toward the Palais Royal.
— from Prince Eugene and His Times by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

As the old historian says about the Roman armies that marched through a country, burning and destroying every living thing, 'They make a solitude, and they call it peace.'
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren

And all this time we had not seen a single living creature, no, not so much as a dog; every living thing, save ourselves, had taken shelter from the fury of the elements, and was not likely to venture abroad again until it was over.
— from A Middy of the Slave Squadron: A West African Story by Harry Collingwood