After she had seen the last thing she thanked the merchant and prepared to go home; but when she came to the ship’s side she saw that they were on the high seas, far from land, and that the ship was speeding on its way under full canvas.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

The man in grey had finished talking to Dymov and Kiruha; he pulled up his little stallion and looked across towards the settlement.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Troops of dogs, deserted of their masters, passed us; and now and then a horse, unbridled and unsaddled, trotted towards us, and tried to attract the attention of those which we rode, as if to allure them to seek like liberty.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The ultimate end a resultant.—Demands the substance of ideals.—Discipline of the will.—Demands made practical and consistent.—The ideal natural.—Need of unity and finality.—Ideals of nothing.—Darwin on moral sense.—Conscience and reason compared.—Reason imposes no new sacrifice.—Natural goods attainable and compatible in principle.—Harmony the formal and intrinsic demand of reason Pages 256 - 268 CHAPTER XII FLUX AND CONSTANCY IN HUMAN NATURE Respectable tradition that human nature is fixed.—Contrary currents of opinion.—Pantheism.—Instability in existences does not dethrone their ideals.—Absolutist philosophy human and halting.—All science a deliverance of momentary thought.—All criticism likewise.—Origins inessential.—Ideals functional.—They are transferable to similar beings.—Authority internal.—Reason autonomous.—Its distribution.—Natural selection of minds.—Living stability.—Continuity necessary to progress.—Limits of variation.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The clavicle at its sternal end is round and thick, where it gives attachment to the sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

You could tell in advance that the sperm whales would be victorious, not only because they were better built for fighting than their harmless adversaries, but also because they could stay longer underwater before returning to breathe at the surface.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

They all congregated in the kitchen, and talked the subject to death, imagining all kinds of unlikely things.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Palæphatus, and other writers, say, that the Dragon which was killed by Cadmus was a king of the country, who was named Draco, and was a son of Mars: that his teeth were his subjects, who rallied again after their defeat, and that Cadmus put them all to the sword, except Chthonius, Udeus, Hyperenor, Pelor, and Echion, who became reconciled to him.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

But, besides those great men, there is a certain number of artists who have a distinct faculty of their own by which they convey to us a peculiar quality of pleasure which we cannot get elsewhere; and these, too, have their place in general culture, and must be interpreted to it by those who have felt their charm strongly, and are often the objects of a special diligence and a consideration wholly affectionate, just because there is not about them the stress of a great name and authority.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

He was sitting close to it, and as she came towards him, with irre 266 sistible impulse he bent forward to meet her, his lips parted as though to speak, his eyes implored her for recognition, his hands were instinctively moved to attract her notice.
— from Flute and Violin, and Other Kentucky Tales and Romances by James Lane Allen

To ask that they should feel no anxiety on her account, in times which made even a successful escape from danger so very hazardous, she acknowledged would be vain; but, in judging of the degree of prudence which she had exhibited on this occasion, she begged them to reflect on the certain dangers which awaited her from the Landgrave; and finally, in excuse for not having sought the advice of so dear a friend as the lady abbess, she enclosed the letter upon which she had acted.
— from Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey

The men, seeing that he was unhurt, pulled their horses round and galloped off, but Christopher, setting another arrow to the string of the bow he carried, drew it to his ear, covering the Abbot. “Loose, and make an end of him,” muttered Emlyn from her shelter behind the parapet.
— from The Lady of Blossholme by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

“The two volumes are a notable addition to the socio-political history of the last generation.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

These appraisements I would hesitate to repeat in France, where all letters come finally to be adjudged, if I did not know that this last document (the Gettysburg speech), at least, had been admitted to the seat of the immortal classics.
— from The French in the Heart of America by John H. (John Huston) Finley

It is all that the sea has left me."
— from Vandrad the Viking; Or, The Feud and the Spell by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston

These will be adapted to the special requirements of each nation, under the general superintendence of the spiritual power, from whom our fundamental principles will have proceeded.
— from A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life by Auguste Comte

Then she was stirred by a great emotion, and the tears sprang to her eyes and she spoke out as with strong conviction, saying: “I believe wholly—as wholly as I believe the Christian faith and that God has redeemed us from the fires of hell, that God speaks to me by that Voice!”
— from Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2 by Mark Twain

Luckily none of them were very bulky and the three set to work to fit them into the freight compartment.
— from The Air Mystery of Isle La Motte by E. J. (Edith Janice) Craine

After these, the streets of the town, a trolley car stalled impatient to let our train pass—low streets and mean streets of an unmistakable negro quarter, the broad shed of a sizable railroad station showing at the right.
— from The Personality of American Cities by Edward Hungerford