Idomeneus had left the ships on foot and would have afforded a great triumph to the Trojans if Coiranus had not driven quickly up to him, he therefore brought life and rescue to Idomeneus, but himself fell by the hand of murderous Hector.
— from The Iliad by Homer

For a loveless coition brings only satiety, as the satisfaction of hunger and thirst, and has nothing noble resulting from it, whereas by Love Aphrodite removes the cloying element in pleasure, and 44 produces harmonious friendship.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

An original specialized power of adjustment secures immediate efficiency, but, like a railway ticket, it is good for one route only.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Apart from her own personal interest in the war, she was racked by the thought of Paris falling into the ruthless hands of the hordes who had burned Louvain and ruined the wonder of Rheims.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Down the steep rock with hurried feet and fast Clomb the brave lad, and reached the cave of Pan, And heard the goat-foot snoring as he passed, And leapt upon a grassy knoll and ran Like a young fawn unto an olive wood Which in a shady valley by the well-built city stood; And sought a little stream, which well he knew, For oftentimes with boyish careless shout The green and crested grebe he would pursue, Or snare in woven net the silver trout, And down amid the startled reeds he lay Panting in breathless sweet affright, and waited for the day.
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

Then another law made by a consul concerning the right of appeal, a singular security to liberty, and subverted by the decemviral power, they not only restore, but guard it also for the time to come, by enacting a new law, "that no one should appoint any magistrate without a right of appeal; if any person should so elect, it would be lawful and right that he be put to death; and that such killing should not be deemed a capital offence."
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

I tell you this, that if everyone were to go in for being learned and refined there would be no one to sow the corn and do the trading; they would all die of hunger.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The former attack, though based upon the sea, was mainly by land, and resultless; the Spanish people in that quarter showed unmistakably that they would not welcome the king set up by foreign powers.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

They were agate gray and they looked too big for his face because they had black lashes all round them.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

We again find families ( familiæ ) and associations of men ( cognationes hominum ) spoken of by Cæsar, in the barbaric laws, and referred to in the histories of the Middle Ages under the names of genealogiæ, faramanni, faræ , &c.; but the extent of the relationship ( parentela ) included under the general appellation of families varied amongst the Franks, Lombards, Visigoths, and Bavarians.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Dorothy supposed that she, like nature, must be looking most beautiful in this bewitching light, and regretted that the only passers-by should be ecclesiastical figures bent in grave intercourse, or a few young men arguing in throaty voices about topics she did not recognize.
— from The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie

Since then, new moral or social movements, mainly those concerned with the desire to benefit labor and repress the trusts, with the desire to protect women and children, seem to have brought up a new radical wave, the progress of which has hardly ended yet.
— from Popular Law-making A study of the origin, history, and present tendencies of law-making by statute by Frederic Jesup Stimson

With halter ropes they tied our hands behind our backs and then tied us to each other by looping a rope through our arms.
— from Ravished Armenia The Story of Aurora Mardiganian, the Christian Girl Who Lived Through the Great Massacres by Aurora Mardiganian

He turned a face bleeding, lean, and relentless towards the window at which Tavannes stood.
— from Count Hannibal: A Romance of the Court of France by Stanley John Weyman

[328] Nonplussed, Mr. Ferry bowed low and received the Declaration without a word.
— from Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian by Alma Lutz

It was a perfect time of peace after the excitement and hurry of her life—a time when she could steal into the big library and read the hours away without being disturbed, or scribble things on paper that she would like to expand into something, some day, when her diffidence should leave her.
— from Molly Brown's Senior Days by Nell Speed

Humbly do I imitate, then, the great master of narrative in declining to put into words the conflict between love and reason that tortured the heart of Graham Vane when, dropping noiselessly the letter I have just transcribed, he covered his face with his hands and remained—I know not how long—in the same position, his head bowed, not a sound escaping from his lips.
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

She had bright hair tied up with a blue ribbon and her gay, lovely eyes were exactly like Colin’s unhappy ones, agate gray and looking twice as big as they really were because of the black lashes all round them.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

One is a certain vivifying action which from the soul descends into the body, like a ray; the other is a certain vital quality, which is produced from that action in the body.
— from The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem by Giordano Bruno

His march having been long and rapid, the men were much fatigued, and hardly were laid upon their heather beds before they fell asleep.
— from The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter