All their wits were then bent on how, by dint of some fighting and much diplomacy, they might shake the strength and undermine the credit of their successful rivals in the city, and secure their own return in triumph.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Clara at such times often returned to her former habits of free converse and gay sally; and though our four hearts alone beat in the world, those four hearts were happy.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

So they transmute themselves into one another: in the spot where an ancestor lost his churinga, a sacred tree or rock has come out of the soil, just the same as in those places where he entered the ground himself.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Conformably to the Greek ana , twice, the designation of the original Baptists, who, having been baptised at birth, went through the ceremony a second time on reaching maturity.
— from Phrases and Names, Their Origins and Meanings by Trench H. Johnson

He looked about forty-five: his close-cropped, grey hair shone with a dark lustre, like new silver; his face, yellow but free from wrinkles, was exceptionally regular and pure in line, as though carved by a light and delicate chisel, and showed traces of remarkable beauty; specially fine were his clear, black, almond-shaped eyes.
— from Fathers and Children by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The boat deck was by this time a scene of feverish but orderly activity, every available seaman being mustered there, busily engaged, under the supervision of the chief and second officers, on the task of stripping the boats of their canvas, casting them loose, hoisting them out of their chocks, and swinging them outboard ready for lowering.
— from In Search of El Dorado by Harry Collingwood

Beneath a bridge over a walled ravine that kept a rushing stream within bounds in the rainy season, women washed clothes and spread them on rocks to dry.
— from A Trip to the Orient: The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise by Robert Urie Jacob

Then, as the latter did not respond to his call, but peered up at him curiously and suddenly, the old retainer began to tremble so violently that his shaking hands could hardly unbar the gates.
— from The Honorable Miss Moonlight by Winnifred Eaton

It is well that the coarse and selfish type of religion which founds on the mere desire to escape from burning and to lay hold of bliss, should be corrected by the diligent instilling of the belief, that sin is worse than sorrow.
— from The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

"After having searched their prize," continued the traveler, "Captain and soldiers thought of refreshing themselves on the provisions we had on board; the generous captain had a luxurious dinner and invited me to be his guest, and knowing that I was going to Habana, he drank the health of his mother and asked me to go to see her and give her his kindest regards, saying that for her sake he had treated me as kindly as was in his power.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various

After assisting him through the elementary part of his instruction, it presents for his consideration and study the Officers' Reserve Corps.
— from The Plattsburg Manual: A Handbook for Military Training by E. B. (Enoch Barton) Garey

Yet, let me say, that work contains an important metaphysical discovery, supported by a continuous and severe train of reasoning, nearly as subtle and original as anything in Hume or Berkeley.
— from Winterslow: Essays and Characters Written There by William Hazlitt