To stand beside a grave, and see The red small atoms wherewith we Are built, and smile in calm, and say ­ "These little moles and graves shall be Clothed on with immortality More glorious than the noon of day ­ All that is pass'd into the flowers And into beasts and other men, And all the Norland whirlwind showers From open vaults, and all the sea O'er washes with sharp salts, again Shall fleet together all, and be Indued with immortality."
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

The hunter was terribly frightened, and said “That is a snake; I can’t ride that.”
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Such was M. Grossi, whom Madam de Warens undertook and succeeded in civilizing.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is well, also, to have Eau de Cologne, hartshorn, and salts, in case of sudden faintness.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

He stiffened himself upon the spout, pushed against the wall with both his knees, clung to a crevice in the stones with his hands, and succeeded in climbing back with one foot, perhaps; but this effort made the leaden beak on which he rested bend abruptly.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Kings and emperors, instead of poems, build cities; Adrian built Antinoa in Egypt, besides constellations, temples, altars, statues, images, &c., in the honour of his Antinous.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

So ended their discourse, which, for any very appropriate service it could render Fanny, might as well have been spared, for Mrs. Norris had not the smallest intention of taking her.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

we have now the seats and oars to make and fit &c. I walked out today and ascended the bluffs which are high rockey and steep; I continued my rout about 31/2 when I gained a conspicuous eminence about 2 mes.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The Treaty negociated in England by John Jay, and ratified by the Washington Administration, had so disgracefully surrendered the right and freedom of the American flag, that all the Commerce of the United States on the Ocean became exposed to capture, and suffered in consequence of it.
— from The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Thomas Paine

Number 3 is a sandy islet crowned with bushes at the north-west end of a coral reef of about a mile and a half in length.
— from Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Philip Parker King

And so it came about that
— from Lone Pine: The Story of a Lost Mine by R. B. (Richard Baxter) Townshend

When no forks can be found use the "Pine Tree Horse," as shown in cut.
— from Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Girl Scouts of the United States of America

The wolf ceased speaking, yet for a time he sat there looking at me, and I at him; but presently he yawned, and stood up on his feet, and trotted off a little way, and suddenly I could not see him.
— from When Buffalo Ran by George Bird Grinnell

“For after such time as God stirred up the spirit of Martin Luther to detect the corruptions and abuses of Popery, and to preach Christ, and clearly to set forth the simplicity of the Gospel, many Kings, Princes, and States, Imperial Cities, and Hans-Towns fell from the Popish Religion, and became Protestants, as their posterities still are, and remain to this very day.
— from Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther by Martin Luther

From a stranger it came, and chance willed that the writer, an Italian, had actually made the journey from Rome to London in order that he might see Sir Walter, while all the time the master of Chadlands happened to be within half a day's travel.
— from The Grey Room by Eden Phillpotts

Pressed it out, dried it, then got busy again so I couldn't test it for a week.
— from The Professional Approach by Theodore L. Thomas

That severe female has never quite approved of you, and now this will finish you as far as she is concerned.
— from Bizarre by Lawton Mackall