And near it they heaped an altar of small stones, and wreathed their brows with oak leaves and paid heed to sacrifice, invoking the mother of Dindymum, most venerable, dweller in Phrygia, and Titias and Cyllenus, who alone of many are called dispensers of doom and assessors of the Idaean mother,—the Idaean Dactyls of Crete, whom once the nymph Anchiale, as she grasped with both hands the land of Oaxus, bare in the Dictaean cave.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

In saying this he drew a long poniard which he always carried about him; and not imagining that his adversary had any arms he threw himself upon Candide: but our honest Westphalian had received a handsome sword from the old woman along with the suit of clothes.
— from Candide by Voltaire

“Such is the tale, my love, and now is the hour at hand that shall set a crown upon it.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Tom tried to seem at his ease, and he went through the motions fairly well, but at bottom he felt resentful toward all the three witnesses of his exhibition; in fact, he felt so annoyed at them for having witnessed it and noticed it that he almost forgot to feel annoyed at himself for placing it before them.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

Then again, it is not Master of Science (i.e. of the superior part of the Soul), just as neither is the healing art Master of health; for it does not make use of it, but looks how it may come to be: so it commands for the sake of it but does not command it.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

"And where is Arkady Nikolaievitch?" inquired the hostess; and, on being told that he had not been seen for over an hour, she sent messengers to summon him.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

I had superintended most of the alterations necessary in the house and household during the latter weeks of my stay.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

At night I took horse, and rode with Roger Pepys and his two brothers to Impington, and there with great respect was led up by them to the best chamber in the house, and there slept. 4th (Lord’s day).
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

To all which I did give a cold consent, for my heart cannot love or have a good opinion of him since his last playing the knave with me, but he took no notice of our difference at all, nor I to him, and so parted, and I by water to Deptford, where I found Sir W. Batten alone paying off the yard three quarters pay.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I brought home leaves, flowers, and fruit of the C. Caravayensis , which are now in the herbarium at Kew.
— from Travels in Peru and India While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India. by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

Gaspare looked at her almost sternly, went to the door, bent down and bolted it, then he said: “Signora, I heard a noise in the house a few minutes ago.
— from A Spirit in Prison by Robert Hichens

On the contrary, they repeatedly and most emphatically asserted that their philosophical tenets were exclusively academic and not intended to have any bearing upon life and conduct.
— from Mediæval Heresy & the Inquisition by Arthur Stanley Turberville

The mother, practically from the beginning, is a nobody in the household, and is looked upon as a piece of furniture or a beast of burden by the husband, according to his grade, and as an ornament to the household, but nothing more by her own sons.
— from Corea or Cho-sen: The Land of the Morning Calm by Arnold Henry Savage Landor

We went in search of Not-being and seemed to lose Being, and now in the hunt after Being we recover both.
— from Sophist by Plato

It was so late when they finished that Gabe decided they would stay another night in the hotel at Bloody Canyon, and push forward in the morning.
— from Two Boy Gold Miners; Or, Lost in the Mountains by Frank V. Webster

At night I took horse, and rode with Roger Pepys and his two brothers to Impington, and there with great respect was led up by them to the best chamber in the house, and there slept.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 11: June/July/August 1661 by Samuel Pepys

The goats were brought in of a night into the hut and all slept there together; they managed somehow, they managed everyway, and did not grumble.
— from Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun

He meant to have come back to me next morning, but a nasty influenza took him and kept him away.
— from The Millionaire Mystery by Fergus Hume

"Shure, Ma'am, it can be used," said an Irish girl to me, after breaking the spout out of an expensive china jug, "It is not a hair the worse!" She could not imagine that a mutilated object could occasion the least discomfort to those accustomed to order and neatness in their household arrangements.
— from Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Susanna Moodie