Accordingly, having still on his body a very white doublet and an apron fresh from the wash, which bespoke him rather a miller than a baker, he let set before his door, every morning, towards the time when he looked for Messer Geri and the ambassadors to pass, a new tinned pail of fair water and a small pitcher of new Bolognese ware, full of his good white wine, together with two beakers, which seemed of silver, so bright they were, and seated himself there, against they should pass, when, after clearing his throat once or twice, he fell to drinking of that his wine with such a relish that he had made a dead man's mouth water for it.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

From me to thee glad serenades, Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee, And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread shy are fitting, And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

↑ 52 The omission of a form from the list, then, does not necessarily indicate that it is wrong or even objectionable.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

for who knows From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen! XX. Ah! my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears TO-DAY of past Regrets and future Fears- To-morrow?—Why, To-morrow I may be Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years.
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

Their admiration, however, was soon changed into sorrow and fear; for the serpent came hissing to the foot [ 18 ] of the tree on the branches of which they were seated, and swallowed up, one by one, the horses tied to the trunk.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

Then Deniska caught a fat fly that had been sucking blood and offered it to the grasshopper.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

They were heave-ho-ing, stopping and unstopping, pawling, catting, and fishing, for three hours; and the sails hung from the yards all the afternoon, and were not furled until sundown.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

I was quite impatient to get off myself, for a city-life had become dull and tame, and we were all anxious to get into the pine-woods again, free from the importunities of rebel women asking for protection, and of the civilians from the North who were coming to Savannah for cotton and all sorts of profit.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

This was bad enough, but to make it worse Man invented bows, knives, blowguns, spears, and hooks, and began to slaughter the larger animals, birds, and fishes for their flesh or their skins, while the smaller creatures, such as the frogs and worms, were crushed and trodden upon without thought, out of pure carelessness or contempt.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Even in his present state Keller realised this, and filled for the moment with a sullen resignation he dropped his manacled hands.
— from Local Color by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

The lower portion of the shōji, to the height of a foot from the floor, is usually a wood-panel, as a protection against careless feet as well as to strengthen the frame.
— from Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings by Edward Sylvester Morse

Field and forest furnished the principal dishes: game, bread, vegetables.
— from Women of the Teutonic Nations by Hermann Schoenfeld

They are first bound to Ireland, to join a fleet; from thence, to New York.
— from A Relic of the Revolution by Charles Herbert

Remove the card from the eye, leaving the object looked at in its former position, and it will then not be seen at all; this is accounted for from the well-known quality of the eye that it is unable unaided to discover a single object not more than an inch away.
— from Cassell's Book of In-door Amusements, Card Games, and Fireside Fun by Various

These walls were thirty-six feet high and forty feet thick at the base, with a ditch outside eighty feet wide.
— from America, Volume 5 (of 6) by Joel Cook

Birds in plumage of scarlet and blue and gold shot like a flame from tree to tree.
— from The Young Trailers: A Story of Early Kentucky by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

I knew it was a fake, for they were very difficult to [173] obtain, but they stole our thunder, just the same.
— from Side Show Studies by Francis Metcalfe

Here, indeed, was Sieur Hercules enslaved, burned by a fiercer fire than that of Nessus, and the huge bulk of the unconquerable visibly shaken by his adoration.
— from Chivalry by James Branch Cabell