Your name shall circulate with renown all round the earth, like unto the ship that was to have sailed from Corsor; and in Roeskilde—” “Do not forget the diet!” said King Hroar.
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Then comes 'the tug of war;'—'t will come again, I rather doubt; and I would fain say 'fie on 't,' If I had not perceived that revolution Alone can save the earth from hell's pollution.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

But yonder herbs and yonder flocks forbear; Attest the heavens, and call the gods to hear: Content, an innocent repast display, By Circe given, and fly the dangerous prey.' '
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Do innocent men inveigle nameless vagabonds, and prowl with them about the country as idle robbers do?
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Leaving the rest to the sentimentalists, we present freedom as sufficient in its scientific aspect, cold as ice, reasoning, deductive, clear and passionless as crystal.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

They parted company and individually ravaged different tracts of country.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Mihugangkul ang kaldíru nga nalígid sa hagdanan, The pot clattered as it rolled down the stairs.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

a. That act of the Understanding in which an object presented by the Sense is analyzed, and its special and generic elements noted, and is thus classified, and its relations determined, is properly a thinking.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

If Oellacher's observations in reference to the origin of formative cells are correct, then the modes of origin of the mesoblast in Loligo and the chick would have nothing in common; but if the formative cells are in reality derived from the white yolk, and also are alone concerned in the formation of the mesoblast, then the modes of formation of the mesoblast in the chick would be substantially the same as that observed by Mr Ray Lankester in Loligo.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

In the case of typhoid fever, basing the comparison on the statistics of the Census Office of the United States, we find, first, that, at present, the difference in the death-rates from typhoid fever in cities and in rural districts
— from Rural Hygiene by Henry N. (Henry Neely) Ogden

It is also to be seen (from the following table) that in both city and in rural districts, the rate is steadily decreasing, although in neither has the rate yet fallen to what would, in other countries, be considered a reasonable and proper death-rate.
— from Rural Hygiene by Henry N. (Henry Neely) Ogden

She watched the carriage as it rolled down the avenue, then turning from the window, indulged in a hearty cry.
— from Elsie's children by Martha Finley

I heard her crying and I ran down to the barn.
— from Four Little Blossoms at Brookside Farm by Mabel C. Hawley

As a rule the race-meetings are better attended; every bush township has its meetings throughout the continent, and, in remote districts, there are men who entirely “live on the game.”
— from Spinifex and Sand A Narrative of Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Ausralia by David Wynford Carnegie

Nothing more romantic in the history of the Civil War than Montrose’s descent upon Clan Campbell at Inverlochy, rushing down from Ben Nevis in the early morning fogs upon the shores of wild Loch Eil.
— from The Connecticut Wits, and Other Essays by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

Moreover, we are suffering from a great drought, for as you may see, the veldt is still brown, and there is no green upon the cornfields, and if rain does not fall soon famine will follow the sickness, and then it will only need that the Zulus should follow the famine to make an end of us once and for all.”
— from Swallow: A Tale of the Great Trek by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

But in the first place, the eldest born of the human race, we are told, built a city, and even in cities we find traces of the family and tribal organization long after their municipal existence—in Athens down to the Macedonian conquest, and in Rome down to the establishment of the Empire; and, in the second place, the pastoral nations, though they have not precisely the city or state organization, yet have a national organization, and obey a national authority.
— from The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny by Orestes Augustus Brownson