And because they had often seen battles lost by the cumbersome lets and disturbing encumbrances of women confusedly huddled in amongst armies, it was at that time decreed and enacted that they should expel and drive out of heaven into Egypt and the confines of Nile that whole crew of goddesses, disguised in the shapes of weasels, polecats, bats, shrew-mice, ferrets, fulmarts, and other such like odd transformations; only Minerva was reserved to participate with Jupiter in the horrific fulminating power, as being the goddess both of war and learning, of arts and arms, of counsel and despatch—a goddess armed from her birth, a goddess dreaded in heaven, in the air, by sea and land.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The consequence was a doubling of the world, so that every Christian led a dual existence, one full of trouble and vanity on earth, which it was piety in him to despise and neglect, another full of hope and consolation in a region parallel to earth and directly above it, every part of which corresponded to something in earthly life and could be reached, so to speak, by a Jacob's ladder upon which aspiration and grace ascended and descended continually.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The high-born maiden ill could brook The scanning of his curious look And dauntless eye:—and yet, in sooth Young Lewis was a generous youth; But Ellen's lovely face and mien Ill suited to the garb and scene, Might lightly bear construction strange, And give loose fancy scope to range.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

They sat dejected on the ground with compressed lips and downcast eyes, listening to their comrade below.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

—Los artículos de metal,—es decir, los de aluminio, hierro, acero, cobre y latón, así como las aleaciones de esos metales.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Obadiah very considerately lent a deaf ear to my repeated entreaties, pretending to be intently occupied with his own plate of fish; then, transferring the remains of the salmon-trout to his own place, he turned round to me with the most innocent face imaginable, saying very coolly, “I beg your pardon, friend, did you speak to me?
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

But when Basmanof tried to pass to more intimate, more painful questions his companion lightly and deftly evaded them.
— from The Republic of the Southern Cross, and other stories by Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov

The Denbies are the scene of the "Battle of Dorking," having been held by the English defensive army in that imaginary and disastrous conflict wherein German invaders land upon the southern coasts, destroy the British fleets by torpedoes, triumphantly march to the base of the chalk-ranges, fight a terrific battle, force their way through the gaps in the hills, capture London, and dethrone England from her high place among the great powers of Europe.
— from England, Picturesque and Descriptive: A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook

E non pur una volta, questo spazzo girando, si rinfresca nostra pena: io dico pena, e dovria dir sollazzo, che' quella voglia a li alberi ci mena che meno` Cristo lieto a dire 'Eli`', quando ne libero` con la sua vena>>.
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

These “Lords of the South Plains,” as they were later called, looked and dressed every bit the now “Hollywood” Indian.
— from The Indians of Carlsbad Caverns National Park by Jack R. Williams

He lifted the little arms, held the boy upright, looking at him critically, like a doctor examining recruits.
— from The Song of the Blood-Red Flower by Johannes Linnankoski

the artless timid Lucy, she who moves about the town with closed lips and downcast eyes—who flutters and blushes at a stranger’s look—can steal into a wood—oh! shame—shame.
— from Ambrose Gwinett; or, a sea-side story: a melo-drama, in three acts by Douglas William Jerrold

The picture of Chian life, as drawn even by those who have judged the Greeks most severely, is one of singular beauty and interest; the picture of a self-governing society in which the family trained the citizen in its own bosom, and in which, while commerce enriched all, the industry of the poor within their homes and in their gardens was refined by the practice of an art.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

Here the summer comes late and departs early.
— from The Huguenots in France by Samuel Smiles