Till all the white walls of my cell were dyed With rosy colours leaping on the wall; And then the music faded, and the Grail Past, and the beam decayed, and from the walls The rosy quiverings died into the night.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

While the conscientious officer was shaking the handle, Ossipon felt the cold lips of the woman stirring again creepily against his very ear: “If he comes in kill me—kill me, Tom.”
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

Some of the younger men had banded together, and secretly assassinated one Androcles, the chief leader of the commons, and mainly responsible for the banishment of Alcibiades; Androcles being singled out both because he was a popular leader and because they sought by his death to recommend themselves to Alcibiades, who was, as they supposed, to be recalled, and to make Tissaphernes their friend.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

In assimilation the process is typically unconscious; the person is incorporated into the common life of the group before he is aware and with little conception of the course of events which brought this incorporation about.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Mr. Craven looked over the collection of sturdy little bodies and round red-cheeked faces, each one grinning in its own particular way, and he awoke to the fact that they were a healthy likable lot.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

But supposing for an instant, in this and other such cases, that the record of the first appearance and disappearance of the species was perfect, we have no reason to believe that forms successively produced necessarily endure for corresponding lengths of time: a very ancient form might occasionally last much longer than a form elsewhere subsequently produced, especially in the case of terrestrial productions inhabiting separated districts.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Ah no, my lord, not Indra: he In battle ne'er could look on thee.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

France has not only no Hierarchy of Authorities, to translate command into obedience; its Hierarchy of Authorities has fled to the enemies of France; calls loudly on the enemies of France to interfere armed, who want but a pretext to do that.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

"You are in the position of a man amenable to the criminal laws of the land."
— from The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope

They asserted themselves in the quaint curves of the rosewood chairs, in the blue patterns upon the willow bowls, and in the choice lavender of the old Wedgwood.
— from The Voice of the People by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

He was still squeaking and gesticulating about the knot of newspaper men and staff-officers, but Kenyon, climbing on a baggage-truck, was calmly looking over the sea of upturned and often leeringly impudent faces beyond the grating.
— from A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike by Charles King

Perfumes had been liberally sprinkled upon the crisp, auburn locks, censers were steaming with the smoke of musk and ambergris, and garlands of the freshest flowers were cast like fragrant fetters over the cold limbs of the sleeper.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 2, August 1852 by Various

The clothing of the men of the Neolithic Age doubtless consisted largely of the prepared skins of the animals, and some fragments of leather have been found in the lake settlements.
— from The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races by Emory Adams Allen

It was in 1840 that the famous Cunard line of transatlantic steamers was established, soon followed by the Collins line and others.
— from Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle

His entreaty, her reply, threw a cold, cruel light on the recent workings of his mind.
— from Mrs. Maxon Protests by Anthony Hope

5 Chouquet, in Normandy, the Green Wolf at, x. 185 Chouville, Léon, on the King of the Bean in France, ix.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

To such great purposes convict labour ought to have been applied, had it been possible to have allowed colonization and transportation to work together.
— from Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by T. L. (Thomas Livingstone) Mitchell