as to him they bent, Of victor chiefs preëminent.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Having threaded the mazes of this channel for some hours, the gloom deepening every moment, a sharp and unexpected turn of the vessel brought it suddenly, as if dropped from heaven, into a circular basin of very considerable extent when compared with the width of the gorge.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

This realm rings with the triple-throated baying of vast Cerberus, couched huge in the cavern opposite; to whom the prophetess, seeing the serpents already bristling up on his neck, throws a cake made slumberous with honey and drugged grain.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

He burst out vehemently: “Curse you—curse you!
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

These we bent on very carefully, with strong robands and seizings, and making tackles fast to the clews, bowsed them down to the water-ways.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Such pictures can be obtained very cheaply from the Perry Pictures Co., Boston, Mass., or the National Association of Audubon Societies, 1974 Broadway, New York City.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

When the oldest and truest breeds of various colours are crossed, we see a strong tendency for the blue tint and bars and marks to reappear in the mongrels.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Here, in fact, the intimate relationship between life and dreams is brought out very clearly, and we need not be ashamed to confess it, as it has been recognised and spoken of by many great men.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

In the early days a poverty-stricken Mexican who lived in a canyon directly back of Virginia City, had a stream of water as large as a man’s wrist trickling from the hill-side on his premises.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

But one very curious fact was that all the shame and vexation and mortification which he felt over the accident were less powerful than the deep impression of the almost supernatural truth of his premonition.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is called "Sheikh el Beled" or Village Chief; that it should have resisted decay for more than forty centuries is little less than marvelous.
— from The Old World and Its Ways Describing a Tour Around the World and Journeys Through Europe by William Jennings Bryan

His father had sacrificed himself in the same way at the battle of Veseris (close to Vesuvius) in 340, fought against the Latins and Campanians.
— from Cato Maior de Senectute with Introduction and Notes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

And now a mighty army 'Of young and beardless girls 'Beneath our very citadel 'A banner proud unfurls.' VII.
— from Sagittulae, Random Verses by Edward Woodley Bowling

Unless he brought over very considerable reinforcements it was obvious that the forces available would before long be worn out and his operations end in failure.
— from My Reminiscences of East Africa by General von (Paul Emil) Lettow-Vorbeck

Monkeys of many kinds and sizes were to be seen; and birds of variegated colors were plentiful, almost innumerable varieties of parrots being visible.
— from Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark by Harris Newmark

The reconnoissance that was made by the Third Brigade of Van Cleve’s Division on Sunday, September 13th, beyond Lee & Gordon’s mills, developed the fact that the enemy’s lines were stronger than ever before, and that all our efforts to dislodge him were in vain.
— from Personal Recollections of Chickamauga A Paper Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States by James R. (James Richards) Carnahan

We are really a mixture of the plebeian ingredients of the whole world; but that is not bad; our vulgarity consists in trying to ignore “the worth of the vulgar,” in believing that the superfine is better.
— from Literature and Life (Complete) by William Dean Howells

Having proceeded thus far, he, his eyes filled with tears and his words faltering because of vapour, could not speak aloud.
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume Two. Āranya, Kishkindhā, and Sundara Kāndam by Valmiki

382] appointments of Providence if we could; but both our voluntary consent to the authority of Christ and the impossibility of resisting His providential arrangements, prevent us from refusing to fall in with them, however needless and tyrannical they seem, and however little we perceive that they are intended to accomplish our permanent well-being.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods

At any rate, their perplexity brings out very clearly that the conception was not suggested to Jesus.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods