Sleep the brother of Death, even evil Night, wrapped in a vaporous cloud.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

“Your mother was a devil, a deceitful devil—and you too are a devil,” he would shriek in a final outburst, pick up a bit of dry earth or a handful of mud (there was plenty of mud around the house), and fling it into her hair.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

He was introduced by a brother of Dr. Edwards, a [Pg 343] man given to the peculiarly gloomy kind of debauch of which Stendhal gives such an exaggerated picture in his account of England.
— from On Love by Stendhal

And both of dull existence tired, Extinct the flame which once had fired; Both were expectant of the hate With which blind Fortune oft betrays
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Nay, we may go further, and say that it is practically plain what among things which can be otherwise does exist by nature, and what does not but is dependent upon enactment and conventional, even granting that both are alike subject to be changed: and the same distinctive illustration will apply to this and other cases; the right hand is naturally the stronger, still some men may become equally strong in both.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

ANT: Clamor, vociferation, bawling, outcry, defiance, execration, salutation, acclamation.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Here we are not dealing with hypothesis but with facts based on documentary evidence.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

I don't wish you to expend either money or influence upon my fortunes; but, oh, do educate Traverse!
— from Hidden Hand by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

[3] Both his friends, George William Curtis and George S. Hillard, in writing about him, have made the mistake of assigning to him black or dark eyes; an error perhaps due to the depth of shadowed cavity in which they were seen under the high and massive forehead.
— from The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Appendix to Volume XII: Tales, Sketches, and other Papers by Nathaniel Hawthorne with a Biographical Sketch by George Parsons Lathrop Biographical Sketch of Nathaniel Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop

The people ran to the water's edge and began firing a broadside of down east interrogatives with such rapidity as to nearly swamp him.
— from The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World by Paul Boyton

"Half of our days," says Sir T. Browne, "we pass in the shadow of the earth, and the brother of death extracteth a third part of our lives."
— from The Beauties of Nature, and the Wonders of the World We Live In by Lubbock, John, Sir

22 "Not the battle of despair?" exclaimed the armorer.
— from The White Conquerors: A Tale of Toltec and Aztec by Kirk Munroe

Hamp say sump'n back at 'im, an' den de white man say he sorry fer ter see de honnerbul gemman gwine back on de erpublican party.
— from Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, October 1899 by Various

‘And, Captain Ruiz,’ I added, ‘perhaps you do not mind telling a man who has always believed in the uprightness of your character what became of Dona Erminia on that night?’
— from A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad

The Athenians, immediately after landing, marched up to the town of Thyrea, and carried it by storm, burning or destroying everything within it: all the Æginetans were either killed or made prisoners, and even Tantalus, disabled by his wounds, became prisoner also.
— from History of Greece, Volume 06 (of 12) by George Grote