A Fox asked him, “How can you pretend to prescribe for others, when you are unable to heal your own lame gait and wrinkled skin?” H2 anchor The Lion, the Wolf, and the Fox A LION, growing old, lay sick in his cave.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

A shrewd country attorney, in a turned white neckcloth and rusty blacks, would just take one of these Agamemnons and Ajaxes quietly by his beautiful, strong arm, trot the unresisting statue down a little gallery of legal shams, and turn the poor fellow out at the other end, 'naked, as from the earth he came.'
— from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no hope, for there is no end visible, and when there does seem a little glimpse of light, so as to make you think it is a going to relent, it wraps itself up in a foggy, drizzly mist, and sulks like anything.
— from Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

As usual, a large group of listeners surrounded Jesus.
— from Men Called Him Master by Elwyn A. (Elwyn Allen) Smith

The Duchess (now Ross's portrait of her) hung above the Adams fireplace and a little globe of light shone, on this dark October day, up into that sharp and wizened face and lit those bending fingers and flung forward the dull green jade and the dark black dress.
— from The Duchess of Wrexe, Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary by Hugh Walpole

affecting society itself—that society which, largely capable and largely guilty of like sins, yet visits with such unmercy the sins of the fathers upon the children, the sins of the offender upon the offended!
— from Donal Grant by George MacDonald

Millicent, with a low gurgle of laughter, sat down beside Emory at the table, and fixed her eyes, softly lighted with mirth, upon him.
— from The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge, and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree

The flower ought not to be less than seven inches in circumference, the outer row of petals being well rounded, flat, and expanding at the base, turning up with a full rounded edge, so as to form a well shaped cup, within which, in the double kinds, should arise a large group of long small petals reverted from the centre, and regularly overlapping each other; the colors clear, each shade being distinct in such as are variegated.
— from Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by David Lester Richardson

When he had drained a large glass of light, sweet wine, he felt peacefully at ease, and resting his head on the chair-back closed his eyes.
— from Brandon of the Engineers by Harold Bindloss