The Bull and the Goat A BULL, escaping from a Lion, hid in a cave which some shepherds had recently occupied.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

His various quotations from Manu are derived, not from the later famous law-book, but evidently from a legal Sūtra related to our Manu.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Then the drums began to roll, at first slowly, then with a rumble that became ever faster and louder; at this signal the Muscovite officer gave orders to lock up the Count and the jockeys in the hall, under guard, but to take the gentry out into the yard, where the other company was stationed.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

But the principal thing is, that men who have been engaged for a long continuance of time are more or less like burnt-out cinders; their ammunition is consumed; they have melted away to a certain extent; physical and moral energies are exhausted, perhaps their courage is broken as well.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Upon the fact that Sophy and I had been engaged for a long period, and that Sophy, with the permission of her parents, was more than content to take me—in short,’ said Traddles, with his old frank smile, ‘on our present Britannia-metal footing.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

But he knew also that any miracle might be expected from Arsène Lupin.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

Those seeds have fiery force and divine birth, so far as they are not clogged by taint of the body and dulled by earthy frames and limbs ready to die.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

“My friend,” replied Harding, “I think that in any pressing emergency we need not hesitate to trust ourselves to the ‘Bonadventure’ even for a longer voyage; but you know I should see you set off to Tabor Island with great uneasiness, since nothing obliges you to go there.”
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

She hurried out of the room before Mrs Winn could begin another sentence; for long experience had taught her that the subject would not be exhausted for a long while, and that a sudden departure was the only way of escape.
— from Thistle and Rose: A Story for Girls by Amy Walton

My guide had two prices—a high price if I proposed to enter a town at night and thus require him to buy expensive forage; a low price if I camped in the hills and reached the town in time for him to return to the hills with his animals.
— from The Andes of Southern Peru Geographical Reconnaissance along the Seventy-Third Meridian by Isaiah Bowman

He wore his best clothes, and spoke bad English fluently and loudly in the traders' stores.
— from The Witch Doctor and other Rhodesian Studies by Frank Worthington

A great many hands were stretched out, and Sam was busy enough for a little while.
— from I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success by A. S. (Azel Stevens) Roe

Why ye’re big eno’ for a lad o’ seventeen!”
— from From Squire to Squatter: A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Gordon Stables

One man can be evangelized for a lifetime.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

And if these be enjoyed for a long or even for a short season, they will soon teach men how they ought to conduct themselves under some small evil.
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume I) by Martin Luther