She remained in an unusually silent, tense, and restless condition, and at last, saying she was tired, went to bed early.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

for this (the prudent man replies) Against Ulysses shall thy anger rise?
— from The Odyssey by Homer

I was kissed, with cancerous kisses, by crocodiles; and laid, confounded with all unutterable slimy things, amongst reeds and Nilotic mud.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

And after long and strenuous cogitation, the Stimpson family managed to construct a fairly plausible story of an unexpected summons to a remote part of the world, in which they were obliged by circumstances to remain without any facilities for informing their friends of their situation.
— from In Brief Authority by F. Anstey

I was kissed with cancerous kisses by crocodiles; and laid confounded with all unutterable slimy things, among reeds and Nilotic mud. .
— from Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold

Imagine a magnetic needle swung out of its position and tending to return to it while moving with a uniform speed through a resisting medium in which a sheath of a diameter slightly greater than the needle's opens bit by bit.
— from The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Jean-Henri Fabre

Mr Thudicumb, who was at length able to accompany us, suggested that a raft should be made, by which means we might bring a larger quantity of stores on shore at a time.
— from In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston

It was there that he was crowned, upon an upright stone that actually roared during the ceremony.
— from Our Little Irish Cousin by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade

These spiritual services, and others which Francis rendered to his neighbor, with the continual instruction he gave to his brethren, were his occupations during his sickness, and until such time as returning health permitted him to do more.
— from The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi by Candide Chalippe

I was kissed with cancerous kisses by crocodiles, and laid, confounded with all unutterable slimy things, among reeds and Nilotic mud.
— from The Opium Habit by Horace B. Day

In the vast and unexplored regions of fairy-land there is ground enough unfound and uncultivated: search there, and realize your favorite Susquehanna scheme.
— from The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb