For this purpose it is concluded to send Mercury to Calypso, and Pallas immediately descends to Ithaca.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

PLATE V. IMG Is a copy of a mediæval Virgin and Child, as painted in Della Robbia ware in the South Kensington Museum, a copy of which, was given to me by my friend, Mr. Newton, to whose kindness I am indebted for many illustrations of ancient Christian art.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

In which he said that he was very sorry he couldn’t repay the fifty pounds just then, because his capital was all out at interest, and he was very busy making his fortune, but that he didn’t forget you were his god-daughter, and he should take it very unkind if we didn’t buy you a silver coral and put it down to his old account?
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

He was as careful and patient in doing this as if he were putting his signature to some great state document.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

You greet your friend, and then include her by saying, "Mr. Smith is suggesting that I dig up these cannas and put in delphiniums."
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Yet the magistrates of Justinian were not subject to the authority of the church: the emperor consulted the unbelieving civilians of antiquity, and the choice of matrimonial laws in the Code and Pandects, is directed by the earthly motives of justice, policy, and the natural freedom of both sexes.
— 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

Resentfully I took a chair and put it down on the floor with a bang, in my anger.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Loving, guiding, protecting her, as he had been doing ever since her being ten years old, her mind in so great a degree formed by his care, and her comfort depending on his kindness, an object to him of such close and peculiar interest, dearer by all his own importance with her than any one else at Mansfield, what was there now to add, but that he should learn to prefer soft light eyes to sparkling dark ones.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

“The letters W. V. B. are also branded very distinctly on his forehead,” interrupted a second equerry, “I supposed them, of course, to be the initials of Wilhelm Von Berlifitzing—but all at the castle are positive in denying any knowledge of the horse.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Then Lizzie, who had been to fetch some milk, came and placed it down before Cracker.
— from Shireen and her Friends: Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat by Gordon Stables

(It will be remembered that James II. convened a Parliament in Dublin which attainted three thousand Protestants).
— from A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons from the Stuarts to Queen Victoria by Joseph Grego

The cock-robin does not go to his parents, and the hen robin to her parents, and say, 'Give us all the straw you can, and put it down at the foot of our tree; but don't dare to peep into the branches, or offer us any suggestions about the nest, or expect to have an opinion about our housekeeping.'
— from The Squire of Sandal-Side: A Pastoral Romance by Amelia E. Barr

The next day the coaling began, the men being divided into four parties, one to hew down the coal on the mountain-side, another to collect and pass it down to the sledges, and the other two parties to draw the loaded and empty sledges to and fro.
— from Steve Young by George Manville Fenn

In the course of the centuries, and keeping pace with the growth of the national consciousness, it was cultivated and perfected in detail.
— from Jewish History : An Essay in the Philosophy of History by Simon Dubnow

The man whirled, shouldered the carbine, and put it down again.
— from Trading Jeff and His Dog by Jim Kjelgaard

It is impossible to believe, that so faithful an historian, had it been committed, should never have hinted at the devastation of so much property, and the double crime of cruelty and profanity in destroying alike the inhabitants and their churches.
— from The New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery by John R. (John Richard) Wise

He slowly drew off one glove, folded it carefully, and put it down.
— from Tenterhooks by Ada Leverson

The rope or chain a plow is drawn by.
— from Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch A contribution to the study of the linguistic relations of English and Scandinavian by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

'Christ hath sent us down the angels; And the whole earth and the skies Are illumed by altar candles Lit for blessed mysteries; And a Priest's hand through creation Waveth calm and consecration— And Pan is dead.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various