Their swords together clash with dreadful sound, Their feet stand fast, and neither stir nor start, They move their hands, steadfast their feet remain.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

For some reason he felt as if something might come that way, and was relieved when all the envelopes had been scanned and nothing suspicious noticed.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

They are most part bashful, suspicious, solitary, &c., therefore no such ambitious, impudent intruders as some are, no sharkers, no cony-catchers, no prowlers, no smell-feasts, praters, panders, parasites, bawds, drunkards, whoremasters; necessity and defect compel them to be honest; as Mitio told Demea in the [4072] comedy, Haec si neque ego neque tu fecimus, Non sinit egestas facere nos.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Whether this was the cartouche of the original Kallikrates,[*] or of some Prince or Pharaoh from whom his wife Amenartas was descended, I am not sure, nor can I tell if it was drawn upon the sherd at the same time that the uncial Greek was inscribed, or copied on more recently from the Scarab by some other member of the family.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

When he had driven home Alexey Nikolaitch sent Nikita for some laurel drops, and, after taking twenty drops each, all the clerks set to work, while Madame Shtchukin stayed another two hours in the vestibule, talking to the porter and waiting for Kistunov to return. . . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And now supine, now prone, the hero lay, Now shifts his side, impatient for the day: [pg 430] Then starting up, disconsolate he goes Wide on the lonely beach to vent his woes.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Hereafter, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease while the earth remaineth.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

I am Neptune, so now go home, but hold your tongue and do not tell any one.'
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

Pétya and Natásha surprised Nicholas most.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The brave are not spared, nor the beautiful, nor the weak.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Constitutionally of a nervously sensitive nature, excessive joy or sorrow had a thoroughly unhinging effect upon him.
— from Tobias Smollett by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton

Many little things were missed from the house afterwards, but nothing of great value, and neither she nor Wandering Willie ever appeared again.
— from Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by George MacDonald

Appeal to arms, American Nation series (New York, 1907), vol.
— from The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War by Annie Heloise Abel

Above it the clouds hung in dim phantasmagoria; a gleam of silver white below announced the coast, and, now sparkling, now dull, the lie of the land presented itself to our gaze.
— from The Bonadventure: A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden

And so you are never sure nor safe and you feel a pressure in the chest.
— from Erick and Sally by Johanna Spyri

Then she said she'd forgot her Testament, and left it in the seat at church between two other books, and would I slip out quiet and go there and fetch it to her, and not say nothing to nobody.
— from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) by Mark Twain

Indeed the infinity of the native names of places, all of which are descriptive and appropriate, is of itself a prima facie evidence of their having strong ideas of property in the soil; for it is only where such ideas are entertained and acted on that we find, as is certainly the case in Australia, Nullum sine nomine saxum.
— from Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 by Grey, George, Sir