The milder sun and bluer sky That crown my harvest cares wi' joy, Were ne'er sae welcome to my eye As is a sight
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

The South Carolina men had centered by different detachments in [ 50 ] the lower Cherokee towns about the head of Savannah river, burning one town after another, cutting down the peach trees and ripened corn, and having an occasional brush with the Cherokee, who hung constantly upon their flanks.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

This graceful lass, then, helped the young girl, and the two made up a very bad bed for Don Quixote in a garret that showed evident signs of having formerly served for many years as a straw-loft, in which there was also quartered a carrier whose bed was placed a little beyond our Don Quixote's, and, though only made of the pack-saddles and cloths of his mules, had much the advantage of it, as Don Quixote's consisted simply of four rough boards on two not very even trestles, a mattress, that for thinness might have passed for a quilt, full of pellets which, were they not seen through the rents to be wool, would to the touch have seemed pebbles in hardness, two sheets made of buckler leather, and a coverlet the threads of which anyone that chose might have counted without missing one in the reckoning.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

a child might have carried him then—to see the sunset, and, having arranged his couch, had taken his seat beside it.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

As a pomegranate, cut in twain, White-seeded, is her crimson mouth, Her cheeks are as the fading stain Where the peach reddens to the south.
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

Night and day the shadow would have been over me, and sooner or later his chance must have come.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Before man inhabited India or Africa, some cause must have checked the continued increase of the existing elephant.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

With this Cleopatra may have captivated Caesar, Mark Antony!
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

It was my city, my hated city; I esteemed the meaning it has for my forefathers, men who slept in the valley, with peaked cypresses above their graves.
— from Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett

As for Captain Mowbray, he coolly resumed his seat, yawned, and then sat quietly looking first at Edith and then at Mrs. Mowbray.
— from The Living Link: A Novel by James De Mille

However, keeping straight on, we came in view of the river's bank and to this we kept, recrossing by the railway bridge below, and then back by the fields home, completing a round none the less pleasant because a captious critic might have called it trespassing.
— from 'Twixt France and Spain Or, A Spring in the Pyrenees by E. Ernest Bilbrough

The colouring matters are saponified, and the resulting soap is of a dark yellow or brown colour, from the colouring matter having combined with the alkali.
— from Pigments, Paint and Painting: A practical book for practical men by George Terry

His cowardice might have concealed him, but for his dialect.
— from The Syrian Christ by Abraham Mitrie Rihbany

Here a confidant might have comforted her considerably by representing that they couldn't be torturing the poor
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 29, 1892 by Various

Professional début of Madame Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler at Central Music Hall, Chicago, when she [Pg 80] played Henselt's F minor concerto, with orchestra.
— from Annals of Music in America: A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events by Henry Charles Lahee

"We will not think of such misfortunes," says she; "but I am heartily glad you approve of what I have done; and now, to complete the improvement, do, prithee, cut my hair close with your knife."
— from The Admirable Lady Biddy Fane Her Surprising Curious Adventures In Strange Parts & Happy Deliverance From Pirates, Battle, Captivity, & Other Terrors; Together With Divers Romantic & Moving Accidents As Set Forth By Benet Pengilly (Her Companion In Misfortune & Joy), & Now First Done Into Print by Frank Barrett

"De one wey hole de cutlass mistake, he cut off he cumpin (companion) him (his) head.
— from Cunnie Rabbit, Mr. Spider and the Other Beef: West African Folk Tales by Henry W. Ward