Strength balanced sensuousness and had upon it a tonic effect, compelling him to love beauty that was healthy and making him vibrate to sensations that were wholesome.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

The AGAMEMNON, and Captain Rowley in the CUMBERLAND, were just getting into close action a second time, when the admiral called them off, the wind now blowing directly into the Gulf of Frejus, where the enemy anchored after the evening closed.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

The Winged Monkeys You will remember there was no road--not even a pathway--between the castle of the Wicked Witch and the Emerald City.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

After a long impatience, the senate, the clergy, and the people, went forth to meet their hero, with tears and acclamations, with olive branches and innumerable lamps; he entered the capital in a chariot drawn by four elephants; and as soon as the emperor could disengage himself from the tumult of public joy, he tasted more genuine satisfaction in the embraces of his mother and his son.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

As these men willingly lent their aid to effect changes of dynasty, Dionysius, in the twelfth year of his exile, collected a body of foreign troops, drove out Nysaeus, the then ruler of Syracuse, again restored his empire, and was re-established as despot.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

It stretches away as far as the eye can reach, and so high is the roof that spans this vast under world that I cannot see whether it be of ice or not.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

The river looked about for me, concealed in the darkness, and, in his ignorance sought about the encircling cloud and twice, unconsciously did he go around the place where the Goddess had concealed me, and twice did he cry, ‘Ho, Arethusa!
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

[Pg 221] They now turned and took a last look at the Emerald City.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

387 Rome, Onesimus at, p. 378 ; St Paul at, p. 32 ῥιζοῦν, ii. 7 Sabbath, observance of, by Christ and the Essenes compared, p.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Far beyond the door the heads of those who were not able to enter could be seen, all craning to their utmost height to try and see.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

It was very simple; it merely told how a young girl marred her beauty to escape the attentions of the great king, and what respect he always showed her after that, even calling her sister."
— from The House of the Whispering Pines by Anna Katharine Green

For pumpkin pie half a cup of molasses may be added, and the eggs can be omitted, substituting half a cup of flour mixed with the sugar and spice before stirring in.
— from The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes by Helen Campbell

The valve should not be turned through a complete revolution, as this is apt to cause scratches running around the entire circumference of the valve and seat.
— from Ford Manual for Owners and Operators of Ford Cars and Trucks (1919) by Ford Motor Company

All these early chapters of our story have yet to be disinterred.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

To avoid the banks, and to escape collision with the ships in the water-way, in the midst of a fog so dense was no easy matter.
— from Notes of a naturalist in South America by John Ball

Far as the eye could reach his broad acres were spread out to his admiring view, and his flocks and herds almost literally fed upon a thousand hills.
— from Fairy Tales from Gold Lands by May Wentworth

An examination of these caps—which are considered of so much importance that a woman is not allowed to enter church without one, nor with one of a pattern belonging to another parish—shows good reason for the supposition that their sanctity is derived from their having been all developed from the head-dress of the nun.
— from Travels in South Kensington with Notes on Decorative Art and Architecture in England by Moncure Daniel Conway

579 169.png Malouet, in visiting the forests of Guiana, of which he has spoken in his travels into that part of the globe, perceived in the midst of a level savanna, as far as the eye could reach, a hillock which he would have attributed to the hand of man, if M. de Prefontaine, who accompanied him, had not informed him that, in spite of its gigantic construction, it was the work of black Ants of the largest species (most probably of the genus Ponera ).
— from Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions. A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances. by Frank Cowan