“They looked at the thick white flakes that were coming down, and they seemed to think: 'We have had enough of this; we may just as well die here!'
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Though he made the best of his bad luck, he did not like his quarters at all; and the worst of it was, that more and more hay was always coming down, and the space left for him became smaller and smaller.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

If it is light, the royal yards are clewed down, and the ship keeps on her way; but if the squall takes strong hold, the royals are clewed up, fore and aft; light hands lay aloft and furl them; top-gallant yards clewed down, flying-jib hauled down, and the ship kept off before it,—the man at the helm laying out his strength to heave the wheel up to windward.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Soon after, I came down, and the scullion who was waiting for me on the landing begged me to make Madelaine give him half the louis.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Under the successors of Justinian, the friendship of the two nations was cultivated by frequent and cordial intercourse; the most favored vassals were permitted to imitate the example of the great khan, and one hundred and six Turks, who, on various occasions, had visited Constantinople, departed at the same time for their native country.
— 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

Don't you think it's awfully nice when two people have so much—what shall I call it?—so much analysis that they can discard all these stupid conventions and understand each other and become acquainted right away, like ships that pass in the night?”
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Thus had he spoken; when from beneath the sanctuary a snake slid out in seven vast coils and sevenfold slippery spires, quietly circling the grave and gliding from altar to altar, his green chequered body and the spotted lustre of his scales ablaze with gold, as the bow in the cloud darts a thousand changing dyes athwart the sun: Aeneas stood amazed at the sight.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

This is the explanation of the fact, that, in the case of large and rapid rivers, such embankments are at considerable distances, and the sea close in shore deep; while in the case of smaller and more sluggish streams, these sandbanks are at their mouths.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

So good a nature that he cannot deny any thing Sorry to hear that Sir W. Pen’s maid Betty was gone away Strange things he has been found guilty of, not fit to name Then to church to a tedious sermon They were not occupiers, but occupied (women)
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

‘As soon as they were gone he came down and took some nice fresh eggs, and just the same sweet-scented herbs the others had used, and made an omelette just over the hole where he had seen them bury the barrel with the money and the man in it.
— from Roman Legends: A collection of the fables and folk-lore of Rome by Rachel Harriette Busk

Lo innanellato crin dell' aurea testa Scende in la fronte umilmente superba.
— from Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations in Colour by William Parkinson and Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Edward Hutton

I have made up my mind that if I ever find a man dying on my doorstep of hunger, and I can do anything to save him, I am going to do it, whether he deserves it or whether he does not.
— from Twice-born Men in America or, The Psychology of Conversion as Seen by a Christian Psychologist in Rescue Mission Work by Harriet Earhart Monroe

He could not reply to a letter written on the 23th of January, owing to the great difficulty of communication, the considerable distance, and the short interval which elapsed between the 25th of January and the fall of the Empire of Mysore, which happened on the 20th of April following.
— from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 03 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

What did it matter, anyhow?—he was near Constantia daily, and the sunshine was royal.
— from Visionaries by James Huneker

Another, and a younger leaf ( B ) will be found standing at a certain distance around the stem, and a certain distance along the stem, {637} from the first.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

A life-size portrait of Anthony Stewart, miniature painter, called "Devotion," and the "Sisters," portraits of Mrs. Carpenter's daughters, with a picture of "Ockham Church," are at South Kensington.
— from Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Clara Erskine Clement Waters

On these important points,” he continued, “depends all the success in hunting.
— from The Life of a Foxhound by John Mills