And Helens more than one, of plumage bright, Led off the victor of that bloody fight.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

The martyr in his ‘shirt of flame’ may be looking on the face of God, but to him who is piling the faggots or loosening the logs for the blast the whole scene is no more than the slaying of an ox is to the butcher, or the felling of a tree to the charcoal burner in the forest, or the fall of a flower to one who is mowing down the grass with a scythe.
— from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

v [B12] lose one’s common sense, ability to think reasonably.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Vowels may be long or short.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

“Yes,” he reflected, “some day I, too, will become lord of such a country place.”
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing some deep disease.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

His most implacable adversaries have acknowledged the learning and blameless life of that eminent presbyter, who, in a former election, had declared, and perhaps generously declined, his pretensions to the episcopal throne.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The trapdoor had been left open, and I thought that was the place it came through.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Nay, along with this violation of religion, they were within an ace of becoming lords of all Greece also.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Not only was he somewhat weakened by loss of blood, but his right leg, the flesh of which had been torn by the leopard's fangs, was stiff and aching from the great fatigue of the journey across the mountains.
— from Across the Cameroons: A Story of War and Adventure by Charles Gilson

That's just it; as by laying on the signature the affair is come to a conclusion, we only wish to make payment with thanks.
— from Redemption and two other plays by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judea: for thus it is written 3 by the prophet, 6 And thou Bethlehem, land of Judah, Art in no wise least among the princes of Judah: For out of thee shall come forth a governor [ see
— from A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version by A. T. Robertson

He preferred to learn the truth at once, good or bad, later on; and he went out into the night.
— from Original Short Stories — Volume 09 by Guy de Maupassant

"True, señor Don Amador," replied the thrice-honoured master; "a noble land, a rich land, a most glorious land; and, I warrant me, man has never before looked on its equal."
— from Calavar; or, The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird

I’ve been like one gone mad, many a time of late.
— from Patroon van Volkenberg A tale of old Manhattan in the year sixteen hundred & ninety-nine by Henry Thew Stephenson

Let me go, Jim–––” “Better keep cool,” whispered Brisson, leaning over.
— from The Crimson Tide: A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

That for which our ancestors made no provision by law on this subject: there was no luxury existing which might be restrained.
— from How to Master the Spoken Word Designed as a Self-Instructor for all who would Excel in the Art of Public Speaking by Edwin Gordon Lawrence

Scott was a zealous relic hunter, and if you like relics, if you can better conjure up persons through a sort of transubstantiation of personality that comes by looking on what the great have possessed, there can be few private collections more compelling than this of Abbotsford.
— from The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark