The sentry stood like a post on the embankment and seemed to be looking at the seat.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

'I never saw a beggar less anxious to stay with his company, then.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

And once more, when a body large and too strong for the soul is united to a small and weak intelligence, then inasmuch as there are two desires natural to man,—one of food for the sake of the body, and one of wisdom for the sake of the diviner part of us—then, I say, the motions of the stronger, getting the better and increasing their own power, but making the soul dull, and stupid, and forgetful, engender ignorance, which is the greatest of diseases.
— from Timaeus by Plato

A vessel may be lost, and then some provinces may not receive them at all.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

I have seen eggs, milk, and plantains offered in the evening, after the lamp has been lit, at these shrines, to invoke the serpent’s aid on particular occasions.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

This first published work of Spenser is noteworthy in at least four respects: first, it marks the appearance of the first national poet in two centuries; second, it shows again the variety and melody of English verse, which had been largely a tradition since Chaucer; third, it was our first pastoral, the beginning of a long series of English pastoral compositions modeled on Spenser, and as such exerted a strong influence on subsequent literature; and fourth, it marks the real beginning of the outburst of great Elizabethan poetry.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

So dazzling was the radiance, like a halo, round their heads that we could not distinguish the countenances of the beings; we could only distinguish the general shape of their bodies; though their heads were very clearly outlined because this halo-like radiance, which was the brightest light about them, seemed to radiate from or rest upon the head of each being.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

As she rose in the morning, the dawn was beating up white, gusts of light blown like a thin snowstorm from the east, blown stronger and fiercer, till the rose appeared, and the gold, and the sea lit up below.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

[Pg 144] It was the earl's first errand to take or to disable a place called Barfleur, where was a very strong castle, that from it might come forth no harm to any English force to be left at the St. Vast landing.
— from With the Black Prince by William O. Stoddard

Then the girl got up, walked about a bit, looking at the studio properties, and finally stood behind the young painter, watching him work.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters by Elbert Hubbard

Then the one called Philip began looking about the salon that was at their disposal, and whistling plaintively, and peering into the cupboards, of which there were two: "Hullo!"
— from The Silent Shore: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

Why, when the terrible one is brought low and the scorner is consumed, &c. What can be more plain than this to prove that Lebanon, even the house in the forest of Lebanon, for that is here intended, was a figure of the church in the wilderness, or in a tempted and persecuted state.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

He on his bier has been laid, and thyself shall behold and remove him Soon as the dawning appears: but of food meanwhile be we mindful.
— from Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 by Various

But long ago the sea changed all that.
— from Faces and Places by Lucy, Henry W. (Henry William), Sir

Stacy, with Ned Rector and Walter Perkins, had been lounging against the starboard rail of the “Corsair,” observing Tad and the Captain as they talked.
— from The Pony Rider Boys in Alaska; Or, The Gold Diggers of Taku Pass by Frank Gee Patchin

This conspicuous hill has often been the point of hope, the goal to which the farmer turned his little bark, containing, it is true, but a few bushels of grain, yet so precious, and about which the hungry ones in the little log house, thought so frequently, with bodies long accustomed to suffer for the want of enough to eat.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff

2 Esdr 13:36 And Sion shall come, and shall be shewed to all men, being prepared and builded, like as thou sawest the hill graven without hands.
— from Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous