On being told it was "Zeus our Saviour and Victory," he replied, "I accept it; so let it be," and with that remark rode away to his own position.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

Before I leave this subject I shall employ the same principles to explain that distinction of reason, which is so much talked of, and is so little understood, in the schools.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

I've been watching you carefully, and it looks so easy and so interesting, and I should like to be able to tell my friends that once I had driven a motor-car!"
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Nor ever lightning char thy grain, But, rolling as in sleep, Low thunders bring the mellow rain, That makes thee broad and deep!
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Eurypylus was he called, and in some line Of my high Tragedy [570] is sung the same, As thou know’st well, who mad’st it wholly thine.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

“Ah, I so long to like her!
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Besides, they’re received everywhere, and I ”—she laid special stress on the I—“have never been strict and intolerant.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

My wild hurra rang through the woods, and I stood listening to the echo that reverberated again and again, until all was hushed.
— from Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by John S. Springer

The seed reserved for sowing must be put into the ground quite fresh, as it soon loses its power of germination.
— from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds

Alas, my blush and bloom will fade, And I shall lose my dulcet notes— Then I shall die an old, old maid, And none will mourn Miss Alice Oates.
— from Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 by Slason Thompson

This evidence went to show that the garrison which had recently evacuated El Arish were at Maghdaba, and it seemed likely that this force were preparing to hold Maghdaba as a rearguard.
— from With the British Army in The Holy Land by H. O. (Henry Osmond) Lock

It happened very much to our advantage, that at the entrance into the wood, but a little way from it, there lay some large timber-trees, which had been cut down the summer before, and I suppose lay there for carriage.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, Volume 1 With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe, Written By Himself, in Two Volumes by Daniel Defoe

"You know nothing about it," she laughed.
— from John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life by Frederick Upham Adams

The President's attitude to his colleagues had now become: I want to meet you so far as I can; I see your difficulties and I should like to be able to agree to what you propose; but I can do nothing that is not just and right, and you must first of all show me that what you want does really fall within the words of the pronouncements which are binding on me.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

Though I heard him, I went on against his command; but immediately the fiery horse taking a great leap over a hollow place in the way, I fell, and at once lost all sense and motion, like one dying; for there was in that place a stone, level with the ground, covered with only a thin coating of turf, and no other stone was to be found in all that expanse of plain; and it happened by chance, or rather by Divine Providence so ordering it, to punish my disobedience, that my head and my hand, which in falling I had put under my head, struck upon that stone, so that my thumb was broken and my skull fractured, and I became, as I said, like one dead.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint