Vaśishṭha's pupils caught the fear, And every bird and every deer, And fled in wild confusion forth Eastward and westward, south and north, And so Vaśishṭha's holy shade A solitary wild was made, Silent awhile, for not a sound Disturbed the hush that was around.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

She should put it off as long as she could;" but was not easy till she had talked Charles into driving her over on an early day, and was in a very animated, comfortable state of imaginary agitation, when she came back.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

While she was in this mood Drouet came in, bringing with him an entirely different atmosphere.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

But while all the living creatures had one language, 5 at that time the serpent, which then lived together with Adam and his wife, shewed an envious disposition, at his supposal of their living happily, and in obedience to the commands of God; and imagining, that when they disobeyed them, they would fall into calamities, he persuaded the woman, out of a malicious intention, to taste of the tree of knowledge, telling them, that in that tree was the knowledge of good and evil; which knowledge, when they should obtain, they would lead a happy life; nay, a life not inferior to that of a god: by which means he overcame the woman, and persuaded her to despise the command of God.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

We see it in Roman Catholic countries, where the music and the paintings draw in many to worship, whom your quaker spirit of unsensualizing would have kept out.—You, yourself, have a pretty collection of paintings—but confess to me, whether, walking in your gallery at Sandham, among those clear Vandykes, or among the Paul Potters in the ante-room, you ever felt your bosom glow with an elegant delight, at all comparable to that you have it in your power to experience most evenings over a well-arranged assortment of the court cards?—the pretty antic habits, like heralds in a procession—the gay triumph-assuring scarlets—the contrasting deadly-killing sables—the 'hoary majesty of spades'—Pam in all his glory!—
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

“She can't be long, now,” he said to himself, half fearing to encounter her and equally depressed at the thought that she might have gone in by another way.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

It was thought that she could hardly live a few hours, but it would be a great consolation to her to see an English doctor, and, if I would only return, etc.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

And as for those foreshortenings that he made, although, as I have said, he showed a faulty manner in them by reason of the difficulty of making them, none the less he who is the pioneer in the difficulties of any exercise deserves a much greater name than those who follow with a somewhat more ordered and regular manner.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

Fantine awaited M. Madeleine’s appearance every day as one awaits a ray of warmth and joy.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Mr. Hopkins was succeeded by Mr. Austin Gore, a man possessing, in an eminent degree, all those traits of character indispensable to what is called a first-rate overseer.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

Toward such well-meaning people we must assume an entirely different attitude from that which we assume toward the stubborn.
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Martin Luther

[Pg 27] operation of plant and equipment that for more than a generation the miners have lost an average of ninety-three days in the working year of three hundred and eight days, and a needless overhead charge has been imposed upon the consumer which Mr. F. G. Tryon of the U. S. Geological Survey calculates at a million dollars for each working day.
— from The Coming of Coal by Robert W. (Robert Walter) Bruère

BROOK, endure, put up with. BROUGHTON, HUGH, an English divine and Hebrew scholar.
— from The Poetaster by Ben Jonson

In the fourth act, the march of peace and the magnificently dramatic situation of Rienzi, accursed, excommunicated, deserted, alone upon the steps of the church.
— from Wagner at Home by Judith Gautier

Cependant, couvrez la division Lefebvre par les deux divisions de cavalerie d’Erlon et de Reille, afin de ménager la Garde; s’il y avait quelque échauffourée avec les Anglais, il est préférable que ce soit sur le ligne que sur la garde. J’ai adopté comme principe général pendant cette campagne, de diviser mon armée en deux ailes et une réserve.
— from The Campaign of Waterloo: A Military History Third Edition by John Codman Ropes

Most observers attribute Paraguay's poor economic performance to political uncertainty, corruption, lack of progress on structural reform, substantial internal and external debt, and deficient infrastructure.
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The average temperature was about 95 degrees in the shade, but the humidity was so high that one felt as though one were wrapped in a wet blanket and even during a six weeks' rainless period the air was saturated with moisture from the sea-winds.
— from Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China by Roy Chapman Andrews

In one of the older rooms a stone is let into the wall bearing the initials W. H., G. N., and E. D., and the date 1692.
— from The New Forest by Elizabeth Godfrey

Without mingling in the world, or heeding its voices, we get thereof an echo dim and soft.
— from La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet

I was now almost every day at his father’s house in company with numbers of rich and gay people, who were all my friends .
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth