Then was Arthur wroth, and said to himself, I will ride to the churchyard, and take the sword with me that sticketh in the stone, for my brother Sir Kay shall not be without a sword this day.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Perhaps, on climbing again to the summit of the cone, Cyrus Harding had had a hope of discovering some coast, some island shore, which he had not been able to perceive in the dark the evening before.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Overwhelmed with grief, and unable to take a decision, I sat down on the last step of the stairs; but at day-break, chilled, benumbed, shivering with cold, afraid that the servant would see me and would think I was mad, I determined to go back to my room.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The chapel-bell began to ring at a quarter to eleven, and Tom got in early and took his place in the lowest row, and watched all the other boys come in and take their places, filling row after row; and tried to construe the Greek text which was inscribed over the door with the slightest possible success, and wondered which of the masters, who walked down the chapel and took their seats in the exalted boxes at the end, would be his lord.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Eugene, in a fury, followed Maxime and the Countess, and the three stood once more face to face by the hearth in the large drawing-room.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

94 They that have power to hurt, and will do none, That do not do the thing, they most do show, Who moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow: They rightly do inherit heaven’s graces, And husband nature’s riches from expense, Tibey are the lords and owners of their faces, Others, but stewards of their excellence: The summer’s flower is to the summer sweet, Though to it self, it only live and die, But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds, Lilies that fester, smell far worse than weeds.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

No bronze cannon can sound over the land at the birth of a royal child as the thunder sounded at the death of the old oak.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The above is an account of the aspects and the occultations of the planets, a subject which is rendered very complicated by their motions, and is involved in much that is wonderful; especially, when we observe that they change their size and colour, and that the same stars at one time approach the north, and then go to the south, and are now seen near the earth, and then suddenly approach the heavens.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

One climbs a tree, to shun the brute; The other, cold as marble, lies Upon his stomach—shuts his eyes; For he has heard that Bears, instead Of eating fear to touch the dead.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

The world of appearance, i.e. a world regarded in the light of values; ordered, selected according to values—that is to say, in this case, according to the standpoint of utility in regard to the preservation and the increase of power of a certain species of animals.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The bill provides that the balance of the $3,750,000 remaining unexpended on the 31st of December next, shall not be carried to the surplus fund, but shall continue applicable to the satisfaction of the claims until they shall be satisfied.—Referred to the Committee of the Whole on Monday next.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

The tone was certainly confidential, and the two stood very near together.
— from Shoulder-Straps: A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 by Henry Morford

Later on by divine assistance he acquires the first principles [214] of knowledge about which there is no dispute, such as that two things equal to the same thing are equal to each other, that two contrary predicates cannot apply to the same subject at the same time in the same relation, and so on.
— from A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

When spring came again to the shell-torn fields near Verdun, we saw how Nature in places was reclothing the meadows in their mantles of green and around the ruined, tenantless homes along the Meuse, how the primrose and violet were covering up the scars made by unnumbered shells.
— from See America First by Charles J. Herr

She directed him how to cross and tie the straps; she continued to watch him, increasing anxiety betraying itself in her face.
— from A Dozen Ways Of Love by L. (Lily) Dougall

The movement closed, and the three seniors looked at each other like men who were satisfied with themselves and their companions.
— from Aunt Rachel A Rustic Sentimental Comedy by David Christie Murray

We had no complaints that suits multiplied, or that business was generally delayed; and when gentlemen talk about Federal courts to do the business of the people, they seem to forget that there are State courts, and that the State courts have done, and will continue to do almost the whole business of the people in every part of the Union; that but very few suits can be brought into the Federal courts, compared with those that may be brought into the State courts.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Many of the companies merged into the United States Steel Corporation were immensely profitable, and even though they themselves may 35 have been over-capitalized, their value to the new corporation and to their stockholders was greater than their capitalization.
— from United States Steel: A Corporation with a Soul by Arundel Cotter

It takes from ten to fifteen minutes to finish the cooking, according to the size of the cups.
— from Hand-Book of Practical Cookery, for Ladies and Professional Cooks Containing the Whole Science and Art of Preparing Human Food by Pierre Blot