Scylla fell in love with one of his enemies and pulled out the hair while Nisus slept.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

They were always shown into the aristocratic part of the house—that is, upstairs.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

At the expiration of a few moments he darted convulsively towards the silver coin, seized it, and straightened himself up again and began to gaze afar off over the plain, at the same time casting his eyes towards all points of the horizon, as he stood there erect and shivering, like a terrified wild animal which is seeking refuge.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

And all that was wanted to make it appear as a part of the history of the Christian's deified Jesus, was to fill in names and dates.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Its incarnation in any one individual man, leaves the whole world a priesthood, occupying the highest moral eminence even that of disinterested benevolence.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Another of his sources of fearful pleasure was to pass long winter evenings with the old Dutch wives as they sat spinning by the fire, with a row of apples roasting and spluttering along the hearth, and listen to their marvellous tales of ghosts and goblins, and haunted fields, and haunted brooks, and haunted bridges, and haunted houses, and particularly of the headless horseman, or Galloping Hessian of the Hollow, as they sometimes called him.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

as thou hast enlarged my opportunities, enlarge also my will, and make me delight in dispensing to others a portion of that happiness, which I have myself so plentifully received at the hand of thy gracious Providence!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

And when Charmidas offered him some slaves, with the view to his making a profit of them, he would not have them; and, as some people say, he paid no regard to the beauty of Alcibiades.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

But the annalist to whom we owe this remark may have been misinformed; only a part of the history of the first emperor is extant, and we cannot argue from any references in her other works that she wrote a continuation of it
— from Woman under Monasticism Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 by Lina Eckenstein

The common story goes, that she has bewitched the young Chevalier of whom they want to make a Prince of the House of Stewart, and thus entirely spoiled the game the Jesuits were plotting.
— from Gerald Fitzgerald, the Chevalier: A Novel by Charles James Lever

These are the nerves of movement , by means of which the whole arm may be brought into action at pleasure, or the hand may be set to work, while the arm is at rest.
— from The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 by Henry Calderwood

In cases of great festivity and rejoicing, when a subscriber has settled up arrearages or the cash is paid down for a good job of hand-bills, the Colonel purchases the best tenderloin steak to be had in market, and cooks it with one hand, while with the other he writes a letter of thanks to the subscriber, or a puff on the hand-bill.
— from Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk With Sketches of Adventure in California and Washoe by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne

They evidently did not perceive their female friends, and the roar of the cataract was now so loud as to prevent all possibility of their hearing their voices.
— from The Pilgrims of New England A Tale of the Early American Settlers by Mrs. (Annie) Webb-Peploe

In those moments when it stirs within me, I am master of much which is peculiar to the experience and potentiality of that hour.
— from The Emperor — Complete by Georg Ebers

According to him, El-Muharrak is part of the great Harrah; and the unexplored Jaww, which lies north (?) of it, is a prolongation of the Hismá plateau, here belonging to the Balawíyyah or Baliyy-land.
— from The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

"I know that you have had word in another part of this house with a German, who pretends to be a merchant but who is really a spy."
— from The Winds of the World by Talbot Mundy