Not the satin and patchouly of today, not the glorification of the butcheries and wars of the past, nor any fight between Deity on one side and somebody else on the other—not Milton, not even Shakspere's plays, grand as they are.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

"We wanted to surprise you; we thought we were coming directly home, at first; but the dear old gentleman, as soon as we were married, found he couldn't be ready under a month, at least, and sent us off to spend our honeymoon wherever we liked.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Peter gave Wendy a hand at first, but had to desist, Tink was so indignant.
— from Peter and Wendy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

The octogenarian raised his hands to his temples two or three times with an expression of anguish, recoiled tottering, and fell back into an armchair, pulseless, voiceless, tearless, with quivering head and lips which moved with a stupid air, with nothing in his eyes and nothing any longer in his heart except a gloomy and profound something which resembled night.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The genial, tentative host disappeared, and they saw instead the man who had carved money out of Greece and Africa, and bought forests from the natives for a few bottles of gin.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

"Thou shalt know everything," said the King's daughter; "when thou descendest the mountain on which the castle stands, a wild bull will stand below by a spring, and thou must fight with it, and if thou hast the luck to kill it, a fiery bird will spring out of it, which bears in its body a burning egg, and in the egg the crystal ball lies like a yolk.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

The inguinal and iliac portions of the fascia transversalis join along the line of Poupart's ligament, A C. The iliac vessels, in their passage to the thigh, encounter the fascia at the middle third of the crural arch formed by the ligament, and take an investment (the sheath, R) from the fascia.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

After these words he fought a furious battle, slew Strunik with the bravest of his race, and received the surrender of the rest.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

a fine black forms the ground of the wings; two Stripes of the same colour passes on either side of the Head from the base of the Back along the Side of the head to it's junction with the neck, and embraces the eye to its upper edge; a third Stripe of the Same Colour 3/4 of an inch in width passes from the Side of the neck just above the buts of the wings across the troop in the form of a gorget.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

All that takes place in War takes place through armed forces, but where the forces of War, i.e., armed men, are applied, there the idea of fighting must of necessity be at the foundation.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Pleasant thoughts and fancies bedecked his pages.
— from Charlotte's Inheritance by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

When I pronounced these words with some vehemence, Strap looked at me for same time with a grave countenance, and then went on: “I'm very sorry to see such an alteration in your temper of late; you were always fiery, but now you are grown as crabbed as old Periwinkle the drunken tinker, on whom you and I (God forgive us!) played so many unlucky tricks while we were at school—but I will no longer detain you in suspense, because (doubtless) nothing is more uneasy than doubt—Dubio procul dubio nil dubius.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

to go with hem in the contrees, and ferthere bezonde, in to tyme that men conne
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

The capital, Athens, founded by Cecrops, 1556 B.C. , received its name from the goddess Neith, an Egyptian deity, known by the Greeks as Athena, or Minerva.
— from Ancient States and Empires For Colleges and Schools by John Lord

Limerick had at first been abandoned by the French under Lauzan, as utterly indefensible.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2 by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

They informed two white men, Trask, and Duncan, [181] who immediately made enquiry as to whether the body found on the beach previously had been buried, and received for answer from Birney, that it was no countryman of his, but it was likely one of the late emigrants from the States that had been drowned at the Cascade Falls .
— from Palmer's Journal of Travels Over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846 by Joel Palmer

It was a narrow streak at first, but it widened into an oblong and then went out.
— from Prescott of Saskatchewan by Harold Bindloss

And their voices, whose echoes, rolling forth, fill the horizon, become so powerful that Antony falls backward.
— from The Temptation of St. Antony; Or, A Revelation of the Soul by Gustave Flaubert

"Fudge!" said Arthur, giving audible expression to his thoughts, as he kicked a fallen brand with the petulance of a poet, forgetting there was poker, tongs, or servants in the world.
— from Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 48, January, 1854 by Various