She did not smile once, but looked at K. earnestly, with sharp, acquisitive eyes.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

When now they shall plight peace with prosperous marriages (be it so!), when now they shall join in laws and treaties, bid thou not the native Latins change their name of old, nor become Trojans and take the Teucrian name, or change their language, or alter their attire: let Latium be, let Alban kings endure through ages, let Italian valour be potent in the race of Rome.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

On through years of toil and struggle Walked he, faithful to his word; Blameless life and kind entreaty Leading many to the Lord.
— from By the Sea, and Other Verses by Baily, H. Lavinia, (Hannah Lavinia)

When she began she was, perhaps, the only person in town who had an unerring instinct for social differences; but, like a kindly, experienced actor of a minor rôle in theatricals, she had silently given so many professional tips to the amateur principals in the play, and had acted her own part with such unflagging consistency and good-will, that she had often now the satisfaction of seeing one of her pupils move through her rôle with a most edifying effect of having been born to it.
— from The Squirrel-Cage by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

She desires me to send you all her best love and kisses.... “Ever faithfully, “J. L.” 241 “31, Notting Hill Terrace, “February 18, 1852.
— from John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 [of 2] by William Powell Frith

is a human being as distinguished from one of the lower animals, e.g. W’y ’e’d get on that wall, said a woman of a favourite dog, an’ bark like a krischun ’e ’ood, ’e knowed so well who wuz a-comin’.
— from Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore by Elizabeth Mary Wright

But Tyrconnell, fearing to part with all his cavalry at such a critical moment, represented to him that it would leave the river between Limerick and Kilaloe exposed, and as they were the only protection against a flank movement of the enemy in that direction, he discountenanced the adventure.
— from The battle-fields of Ireland, from 1688 to 1691 including Limerick and Athlone, Aughrim and the Boyne. Being an outline history of the Jacobite war in Ireland, and the causes which led to it by Boyle, John, active 1867