The chair has a lion carved on each side, and on the back.
— from The Iliad by Homer

He was forced to guess it, since he knew no one who would have risked so extravagant a step as that of encouraging a young man in a literary career, or even in a political one; society forbade it, as well as residence in a political capital; but Harvard College must have seen some hope for him, since it made him professor against his will; even the publishers and editors of the North American Review must have felt a certain amount of confidence in him, since they put the Review in his hands.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Robert Fabian, alderman, and one of the sheriffs, 1494, gathered out of divers good authors, as well Latin as French, a large Chronicle of England and of France, which he published in English, to his great charges, for the honour of this city, and common utility of the whole realm.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

a long Conversation of explanations took place between the Ricara & mandan Chiefs which appeared to be Satisfactory on both Sides.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

One day a serf-boy, a little child of eight, threw a stone in play and hurt the paw of the general's favorite hound.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If you are not a rich man, you are, at least, certain of earning a living with this talent.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Of course it does not for a moment compare with the collections of the museums in any large city of Europe or America, nor indeed is it numerically comparable with many private collections, or collections of lesser colleges in America.
— from A History of Science — Volume 5 by Edward Huntington Williams

Well was it for all that our trusty huntsmen were with you, else might England be mourning sore this day for a life cut off ere it had seen its first youthful prime.
— from In the Days of Chivalry: A Tale of the Times of the Black Prince by Evelyn Everett-Green

They goes 'long jest ez peaceable an' quiet ez a onborn lamb up to a suttin p'int an' 'en 'at look comes over 'em an' the by-standers starts removin' theyselves to a place of safety.
— from J. Poindexter, Colored by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

Thus once more it was given to Cyrus to close a long chapter of Eastern history--the history of imperial Babylon.
— from The Ancient East by D. G. (David George) Hogarth

"Did you smell anything like chloroform or ether when you were in St. George's apartments?" asked The Thinking Machine as he arose.
— from The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle

A large crowd of Esperantists, with flags and cries of welcome, received us on the quay and guided us to our hotels as soon as we had made a purely formal procession through the customs.
— from A Blind Esperantist's Trip to Finland and Sweden, to Attend the Fourteenth International Esperanto Congress by W. Percy Merrick

The route through the café to Broadway offered the speediest and least conspicuous of exits.
— from The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance

My uneasiness at receiving money from anybody except my parents, who alone were entitled to make me presents, was only equalled by my pleasure at the possession of my first earnings, the knowledge that I was at last capable of earning something, that at last the tree of life was bearing fruit, which I might reach and pluck for myself.
— from Debts of Honor by Mór Jókai