Or in the emptier waste, resembling Air, Weighs his spread wings, at leasure to behold Farr off th' Empyreal Heav'n, extended wide In circuit, undetermind square or round, With Opal Towrs and Battlements adorn'd Of living Saphire, once his native Seat; 1050 And fast by hanging in a golden Chain This pendant world, in bigness as a Starr Of smallest Magnitude close by the Moon.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

En Orbajosa no hay más que dos personas que 10 puedan decidirle con una simple orden: usted o doña Perfecta.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Xenophon advanced through the heart of the country; and his cavalry pushing on in front, came upon some old men pursuing their road somewither, who were brought to him, and in answer to his question, whether they had caught sight of another Hellenic army anywhere, told him all that had already taken place, adding that at present they were being besieged upon a knoll with all the Thracians in close circle round them.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

Know ye not that it is written, "He that cometh not in by the door, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber?"
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

It was not until close upon six o’clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

It was not until close upon six o’clock that I found myself free, and was able to spring into a hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

Toward sunset on the second day, we reached an elevation of some four thousand feet above sea level, and as we picked our careful way through billowy wastes of lava long generations ago stricken dead and cold in the climax of its tossing fury, we began to come upon signs of the near presence of the volcano—signs in the nature of ragged fissures that discharged jets of sulphurous vapor into the air, hot from the molten ocean down in the bowels of the mountain.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

She came upstairs, seeming only too glad to obey her father’s summons.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

SENSIBILITÉ DÉPLACÉE Une femme qui se piquait d'avoir le cœur extrêmement tendre, disait un jour à son boucher: «Je ne comprends pas comment on peut choisir une si odieuse profession que la vôtre.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Then a frolic took John in the head to call up some of Nic.
— from The History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot

Just about the end of Columbus' Century a Venetian lady of wealth, evidently attracted by the kind of care given the insane, "was moved to such great pity of these poor creatures upon sight of them that she left them heirs to her whole estate.
— from The Century of Columbus by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Creeping under shelter of the cemetery stone walls, the bluecoats would fire a volley of musketry, jump over the fence, dash through the smoke, { 374} bayonet in hand, to capture the Canadian guns.
— from Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Agnes C. Laut

The cloak, in which he had been enveloped, caught upon some of the buckles or ornamented work of his appointments, and for a moment embarrassed his motions.
— from Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey

Having been enriched by a large dowry, he has been by turns deputy, secretary, vice-president, president, head of committees, under secretary of State, in one word, everything that it was possible to be.
— from A Romance of Youth — Complete by François Coppée

Notwithstanding which I find they do vary the bigness of the Character upon several Occasions, as in the Titles of Books, in the Titles of the Chapters or Sections, in the Comments, Explications or Notes, and upon several other occasions of variety, which they do at Pleasure with their Pencil, as we use variety of Letters in the Printing of a Book.
— from Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 3 containing a collection of curious travels, voyages, and natural histories of countries as they have been delivered in to the Royal Society by Royal Society (Great Britain)

"But what you have heard, you would doubtless feel called upon, sooner or later, to reveal, unless you were entirely of the same mind with us."
— from The Road to Paris: A Story of Adventure by Robert Neilson Stephens

Thence to her husband, at Gresham College, upon some occasions of Tangier; and so home, with Sir John Bankes with me, to Mark Lane. 28th.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1669 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

Now, every time the foe would charge us, some of the darkies would cry: "Heah dey come!
— from An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) by Buffalo Bill

Thence to her husband, at Gresham College, upon some occasions of Tangier; and so home, with Sir John Bankes with me, to Mark Lane.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 73: April/May 1669 by Samuel Pepys