Meanwhile Gerwazy, exposed to the blows of stools and bottles, was already tottering; already the servants, doubling up their fists, were rushing on him from all sides in a crowd, when, fortunately, Zosia, seeing the assault, leapt up, and, filled with pity, sheltered the old man by extending her arms like a cross.
— 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

In academic work, where artistic feeling is less important than the discipline of your faculties, you may, of course, do so, but even here as little as possible.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

You may hurl a man so low, beneath the level of his kind, that he loses all just ideas of his natural position; [204] but elevate him a little, and the clear conception of rights arises to life and power, and leads him onward.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Extensive excavation at Suk might probably bring to light some interesting relics of the earlier inhabitants of this island, but it would have to be deep, as later edifices have been erected here; and labour and tools would have to be brought from elsewhere.
— from Southern Arabia by Bent, Theodore, Mrs.

And then they caught him by either hand, and looked at him fondly.
— from The Rover Boys in Business; Or, The Search for the Missing Bonds by Edward Stratemeyer

Trade of every kind may be exercised here, and let a person's religious opinions be whatever they may, he is at liberty to exercise them; there being in this town eight places of public worship, according to the establishment, one for the society of friends, two for protestant dissenters, three for calvinists, two for Roman catholics, four for methodists, four for baptists, one for Swedenburgians, one for jews, and one for the followers of Lady Huntingdon.
— from A Description of Modern Birmingham Whereunto Are Annexed Observations Made during an Excursion Round the Town, in the Summer of 1818, Including Warwick and Leamington by Charles Pye

He had nothing to do now but enjoy himself, and look at all the pretty things which are [68] to be seen in the cool clear water-world, where the sun is never too hot, and the frost is never too cold.
— from The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby by Charles Kingsley

He had nothing to do now but enjoy himself, and look at all the pretty things which are to be seen in the cool clear water-world, where the sun is never too hot, and the frost is never too cold.
— from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley

The player having the stop becomes eldest hand, and leads accordingly; and so on, until some player parts with all his cards, by which he wins the pool (game), and becomes entitled besides to a stake for every card not played by the others, except from any one holding Pope, which excuses him from paying.
— from Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Robert Kemp Philp

The soldiers supported life by eating herbs as long as they could gather any from the ground; but when they reached the sands, some of them had recourse to a dreadful expedient, for taking one man in ten by lot, they devoured him: when Cambyses heard this, shocked at their eating one another, he abandoned his expedition against the Ethiopians, marched back and reached Thebes, after losing a great part of his army.
— from The Boys' and Girls' Herodotus Being Parts of the History of Herodotus, Edited for Boys and Girls by Herodotus

Flowers are placed there in the bamboo vases set beside each haka, and lanterns are lighted and hung up before the tombs, but these lanterns have no designs upon them.
— from Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series by Lafcadio Hearn