These objects of so much study now only bore her—unless chance has given her the soul of an artist, and this is always a rarity and scarcely helpful in the management of a household.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Astrid remained all summer here in concealment; but when the nights became dark, and the day began to shorten and the weather to be cold, she was obliged to take to the land, along with Thorolf and a few other men.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

The archdeacon returned and seated himself in his armchair, and placed his head on both his hands, as a sick man does, whose head is heavy and burning.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

In one window there would be live geese, in another marvels in sugar—pink and white canes big enough for ogres, and cakes with cherubs upon them; in a third there would be rows of fat yellow turkeys, decorated with rosettes, and rabbits and squirrels hanging; in a fourth would be a fairyland of toys—lovely dolls with pink dresses, and woolly sheep and drums and soldier hats.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Hadding, on returning from the Swedish war, perceived that his treasury, wherein he was wont to store the wealth he had gotten by the spoils of war, had been forced and robbed, and straightway hanged its keeper Glumer, proclaiming by a crafty device, that, if any of the culprits brought about the recovery of the stolen goods, he should have the same post of honour as Glumer had filled.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

The sound of heavy feet and of two or three bodies struggling for precedence up the companion-ladder followed, and Mr. Chalk, still holding his smoking rifle and regarding a splintered hole in the centre of the panel, wondered whether he had hit anybody.
— from Dialstone Lane, Complete by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

The primitive man probably pointed a long stick by attrition on a rock, and subsequently hardened it by fire: a splint of bone, being harder than the wood, occurred next, and probably [Pg 15] the flint succeeded, to be followed in due time by the bronze head.
— from British and Foreign Arms & Armour by Charles Henry Ashdown

In the summer of 1847, Agassiz rented a small house in East Boston, sufficiently near to the ocean to study marine animals.
— from Famous Men of Science by Sarah Knowles Bolton

And so the folks from Maine, who had made a rough and simple house in the wilderness into a home, began to gather together their belongings and pack up.
— from Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn

His song was often sweet as honey; his fancy sometimes as rich and subtle, his imagination as delicate and strong, as that of the very greatest among dramatists or poets.
— from The Age of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne

So mind and be careful and put out your lights, All ye with red noses in case they ignite, Or perhaps from your bed you may have to leap, In case this great watchman chances to sleep, For as rumours are spread, he is fond of his gill, Is the heroic watchman of Calversyke Hill.
— from Revised Edition of Poems by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

It fought back--it jumped, and reeled, and struck him in the ribs, and tugged at the snare which was strangling him, and ran away from him, pulling the hot-cord tight about his throat with the strength of Muskwa; it was a Devil-stick surely--also would it kill him if no help came.
— from Mooswa & Others of the Boundaries by William Alexander Fraser

She had come to live a solitary life in her villa and gardens, to wander among ruins and steep herself in the poetry of the city.
— from Beyond These Voices by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

[87] Then, losing his head completely, he rushed at Rob and seized him in a wrestling grip.
— from The Boy Scouts at the Panama Canal by John Henry Goldfrap

Lester and his daughters lodged at a retired and solitary house in the suburbs of the town of York; and thither, from the village some miles distant, in which he had chosen his own retreat, Walter now proceeded across fields laden with the ripening corn.
— from Eugene Aram — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron