The gold was sacked in moose-hide bags, fifty pounds to the bag, and piled like so much firewood outside the spruce-bough lodge.
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Take of Tutty prepared two ounces, Lapis Calaminaris often burnt and quenched in Plantain Water an ounce, make them, being finely powdered, into an ointment, with a pound and an half of ointment of Roses.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

That instant from the skies The martial goddess to Ulysses flies: She waves her golden wand, and reassumes From every feature every grace that blooms; At once his vestures change; at once she sheds Age o'er his limbs, that tremble as he treads: Lest to the queen the swain with transport fly, Unable to contain the unruly joy; When near he drew, the prince breaks forth: "Proclaim What tidings, friend?
— from The Odyssey by Homer

And below had been added by Fyodor Pavlovitch, “For my little chicken.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He had a fleet of galleys and frigates, and, according to Padre Gaspar de San Augustin, more than fifteen hundred Filipino bowmen from Pangasinan, Cagayan, and the Bisayas accompanied the expedition.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

Churches are best for Prayer, that have least light: 30 To see God only, I goe out of sight: And to scape stormy dayes, I chuse An Everlasting night.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Jup understood the word corral, which had been frequently pronounced before him, and it may be remembered, too, that he had often driven the cart thither in company with Pencroft.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

At a tottering moment a blow from Pete's hand struck the ally and he crashed to the floor.
— from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

At which the cannon-ball was taken away from us (to the grief of its daily wielders, Harree and Fritz) by four perspiring plantons , who almost died in the performance of their highly patriotic duty.
— from The Enormous Room by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings

Of late I found Drawings in my Mind to visit Friends in New-England , and, having an Opportunity of joining in Company with my beloved Friend, Peter Andrews , we, having obtained Certificates from our Monthly-meeting, set forward on the sixteenth Day of the third Month, in the Year 1747, and reached the Yearly-meeting at Long-Island ; at which were our Friends Samuel Nottingham , from England , John Griffith , Jane Hoskins , and Elizbeth Hudson , from Pennsylvania , and Jacob Andrews , from Chesterfield .
— from The Journal, with Other Writings of John Woolman by John Woolman

We have done much, and may still do more, to delay it, but when that struggle comes it will be incumbent upon us, both for political and military reasons, to make use of all the troops and war material that the Native States can place at our disposal, and it is therefore to our advantage to render both as efficient and useful as possible.
— from Forty-one years in India: from subaltern to commander-in-chief by Roberts, Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl

He had information that on the following day Lorenzo and Oraa were to leave Logrofio for Pampeluna, followed twenty-four hours later by Rodil, with the troops he had brought from Portugal.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various

Emerson has the most exalted ideas of the true poetic function, as this passage from "Merlin" sufficiently shows:— "Thy trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, Free, peremptory, clear.
— from Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The big fellow pulled his hands from his pockets with an angry growl and, clenching his fists, strode toward the boys.
— from Left End Edwards by Ralph Henry Barbour

Perhaps the woman noticed this, and perhaps the thought rose in her mind that it would not pay to work the little foreigner—whom her son Jacques had brought from Paris one cold January day, bidding her at all costs to keep him safely, and guard against any possibility of his escape—too hard.
— from Vivian's Lesson by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Wilson) Grierson

Yes, indeed—and they can’t talk of a single thing at Harrows but fat pigs, and prize cattle, and ploughing matches.
— from Merkland; or, Self Sacrifice by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

He sold his splendid birthright for power and gold.
— from The Rope of Gold A Mystery Story for Boys by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell