For as when, being upon a pier by the shore, we see afar off mariners, seafaring men, and other travellers alongst the curled waves of azure Thetis within their ships, we then consider them in silence only, and seldom proceed any further than to wish them a happy and prosperous arrival; but when they do approach near to the haven, and come to wet their keels within their harbour, then both with words and gestures we salute them, and heartily congratulate their access safe to the port wherein we are ourselves.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

He was half drowned, and Hans and Pete threw themselves upon him, pounding the breath into him and the water out of him.
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

The ship will at all times be a home, where the excursionists, if sick, will be surrounded by kind friends, and have all possible comfort and sympathy.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

-un(→) a having a prominent jaw and chin bones.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Hiller, who had looked through the score and had already praised it, assured me that the instrumentation could not have been carried out with greater sobriety.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

"Or, a cross gules, on a chief of the last a lion of England between a harp and portcullis, all of the first," placed on a ground of green enamel, surrounded by a gold border with shamrocks, surmounted by an Imperial crown, and suspended by a sky-blue riband from the neck.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

(" He regards the taking of a capital as decisive for the submission of a whole kingdom; thus in 1814 will act his adversaries, pale but judicious imitators of his strategy.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

For what island has not a house, a promenade, a bath, and fish and hares for those who love fishing and field-sports?
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

In the tenth year his turn came round again; he again profited by it; he succeeded no better.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

After the death of Constantine the Great, the Arians found means to ingratiate themselves into the favour of the emperor Constantinus, his son and successor in the east; and hence a persecution was raised against the orthodox bishops and clergy.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Two almost human automobiles play prominent parts.
— from That Affair at Elizabeth by Burton Egbert Stevenson

I shall endeavour, on the one hand, to treat the history of literature as humanly as possible, to go as deep down as I can, to seize upon the remotest, innermost psychological movements which prepared for and produced the various literary phenomena; and on the other hand, I shall try to present the result in as plastic and tangible a form as possible.
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 2. The Romantic School in Germany by Georg Brandes

at Helston, and Perin.
— from The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Richard Carew

“I think I shall go to-morrow and have a peep at that new relative, as well as a chat with her parents,” said Walter.
— from Elsie and Her Loved Ones by Martha Finley

The lightly wounded men are happy and proud of their victory.
— from From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Philip Gibbs

It is owing, perhaps, to these circumstances that we have always had a pleasure in seeing the old-looking bridge and gateway which form the subject of our prefixed illustration—we say old-looking, for in reality neither is very old: but they have an antique appearance about them which prevents us from thinking our city a mere creation of yesterday.
— from The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 34, February 20, 1841 by Various

Could he have taken a fine house and kept a carriage, he might have succeeded; for he was a gentleman to the backbone, and had a pleasant face and manner.
— from The Quiver, 2/1900 by Various

At night-fall the ground was so soft that he could not move them; but, while the council was in session, the wind changed, and in two hours the roads were as hard as pavement.
— from A Brief History of the United States by Joel Dorman Steele

A good pressure of steam is now applied to the pan, causing the contents to swell as high as possible, this greatly facilitating the settling of impurities; steam is then turned off, the pan covered, and the boil allowed to rest for several days.
— from The Handbook of Soap Manufacture by W. H. (William Herbert) Simmons

To have so surely built up the edifice of her happiness, to have embellished it every hour, and then to see an intruder audaciously taking possession of it, and making his despotic and hateful authority prevail!
— from Serge Panine — Complete by Georges Ohnet