Now, however, after the Athenian defeat at Amphipolis, and the death of Cleon and Brasidas, who had been the two principal opponents of peace on either side—the latter from the success and honour which war gave him, the former because he thought that, if tranquillity were restored, his crimes would be more open to detection and his slanders less credited—the foremost candidates for power in either city, Pleistoanax, son of Pausanias, king of Lacedaemon, and Nicias, son of Niceratus, the most fortunate general of his time, each desired peace more ardently than ever. Nicias, while still happy and honoured, wished to secure his good fortune, to obtain a present release from trouble for himself and his countrymen, and hand down to posterity a name as an ever-successful statesman, and thought the way to do this was to keep out of danger and commit himself as little as possible to fortune, and that peace alone made this keeping out of danger possible.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

There, the pale pearl and sapphire blue, And ruby red, and em'rald green, Dart from the domes a changing hue, And sparry columns deck the scene.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

The peace has come again into the old man's eyes, and he does not look for the hills to fall down and crush him as he did that terrible night when they were delayed by the flooded river.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

and the roreing or noise made by the waves brakeing on the rockey Shores (as I Suppose) may be heard distictly we made 34 miles to day as Computed H2 anchor
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

For the Jews that dwelt at Cesarea had a synagogue near the place, whose owner was a certain Cesarean Greek: the Jews had endeavored frequently to have purchased the possession of the place, and had offered many times its value for its price; but as the owner overlooked their offers, so did he raise other buildings upon the place, in way of affront to them, and made working-shops of them, and left them but a narrow passage, and such as was very troublesome for them to go along to their synagogue.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

and she dissembled and caressed him, and when his heart was softened, she said, "If thou wouldst but lay aside that ugly knapsack, it makes disfigures thee so, that I can't help being ashamed of thee."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

And the trader leaned back in his chair, and folded his arm, with an air of virtuous decision, apparently considering himself a second Wilberforce.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

1301 And here an inner-court was built, and round it were many well-fitted doors and chambers here and there, and all along on each side was a richly-wrought gallery.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

She stopped dancing, and confronted him, again lifting her slim arms and twisting at her hair.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The goatherd took it with thanks, and drank and calmed himself, and then said, “I should be sorry if your worships were to take me for a simpleton for having spoken so seriously as I did to this animal; but the truth is there is a certain mystery in the words I used.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Mike departed and returned with two new locks, which he at once placed on the doors, Ward meanwhile keeping watch to see that the work of the janitor was not discovered, and cautioning him about keeping his duplicate key.
— from Ward Hill, the Senior by Everett T. (Everett Titsworth) Tomlinson

The saints know well—" Don Andres checked his apologies with a wave of the hand, and sat down somewhat heavily in his favorite chair, as if he were tired, though the day was but fairly begun.
— from The Gringos A Story Of The Old California Days In 1849 by B. M. Bower

But he who hides my tablets, and erases or destroys them, or puts his name in the place of mine, him will Anu and Bin curse, his throne will they bring down, and break the power of his dominion, and cause his army to flee; Bin will devote his land to destruction, and will spread over it poverty, hunger, [Pg 40] sickness, and death, and destroy his name and his race from the earth.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 2 (of 6) by Max Duncker

Round the cellar door a capped head appeared and vanished.
— from Yonder by E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young

DEATH AND CHARACTER Hardship and disappointment made our hero prematurely old, but could not conquer his indomitable spirit.
— from Captain John Smith by Charles Dudley Warner

DEATH AND CHARACTER H2 anchor PREFACE
— from Captain John Smith by Charles Dudley Warner

McDowell, who was afterwards elected Governor of the State, thus portrays the personal relations of master and slave "You may place the slave where you please—you may put him under any process, which, without destroying his value as a slave, will debase and crush him as a rational being—you may do all this, and the idea that he was born to be free will survive it all.
— from The Anti-Slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm by Jesse Macy