They sat them down on a high bench and looked miles ahead and saw the wooded capes fold back and reveal the bends beyond; and they looked miles to the rear and saw the silvery highway diminish its breadth by degrees and close itself together in the distance.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

King Magnus got under sail later in the day and came into the harbour just as King Harald had done pitching his tents.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

A far-off forest's darkling frown, Which makes the prudent start and tremble, Whilst rotten nuts are rattling down, And clouds in demon hordes assemble.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

The Egyptians buried wolves, bears, crocodiles, dogs, and cats in sacred places, embalmed their bodies, and put on mourning at their death.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Doubtless a crowd is often criminal, but also it is often heroic.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

XXI THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE HEUGH OF CORRYNAKIEGH arly as day comes in the beginning of July, it was still dark when we reached our destination, a cleft in the head of a great mountain, with a water running through the midst, and upon the one hand a shallow cave in a rock.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

King Oswin was of a goodly countenance, and tall of stature, pleasant in discourse, and courteous in behaviour; and bountiful to all, gentle and simple alike; so that he was beloved by all men for the royal dignity of his mind and appearance and actions, and men of the highest rank came from almost all provinces to serve him.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

We are both of us inclined to be a little too positive; and I have observed the result of our disputes to be almost uniformly this—that in matters of fact, dates, and circumstances, it turns out, that I was in the right, and my cousin in the wrong.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Again, I deliberated about casting it in the well in the yard—about packing it in a box, as if merchandize, with the usual arrangements, and so getting a porter to take it from the house.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

The colossal statue of Bellerophon, in bronze, which was broken down and cast into the furnace.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Charles Mackay

Thus the eminent antiquary, Don Alfredo Chavero, in his elaborate work, México á través de los Siglos , says, "the truth is, we know no specimens of the ancient poetry, and those, whether manuscript or printed, which claim to be such, date from after the Conquest."
— from Ancient Nahuatl Poetry, Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature Number VII. by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

He only cried bitterly all day; and when the long, dismal night came on, he spread his little hands before his eyes to shut out the darkness, and crouching in the corner, tried to sleep, ever and anon waking with a start and tremble, and drawing himself closer and closer to the wall, as if to feel even its cold hard surface were a protection in the gloom and loneliness which surrounded him.
— from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I by Various

Certainly they ought not to be disgraced and condemned in advance.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

Then, after a careful study of several of the sample letters on the desk, Allison continued, "I suppose you have noted the fact that no two of these appear to have been written by the same person?" "Yes, but that is a point upon which handwriting experts fail to agree.
— from On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved by Government Agents by William Nelson Taft

At 7 P.M. the Divisional artillery came into action between the villages of Paradis and La Croix Marmuse.
— from The History of the 51st (Highland) Division 1914-1918 by F. W. (Frederick William) Bewsher

Three more chapters discuss Protestantism, stating its commonest doctrines and citing its most competent witnesses in proof of its total and often admitted inadequacy to lead man to his destiny.
— from Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott

It was through the care with which public speaking was cultivated that Latin prose was formed into that clear, exact, dignified, and commanding instrument, which served through so many centuries as the universal organ of history, law, philosophy, learning, and religion,—of public discussion and private correspondence.
— from The Roman Poets of the Republic, 2nd edition by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

This it took us a week to do, rising early, working all through the day, and continuing in the moonlight at night.
— from With Steyn and De Wet by F. F. (Filippus Fourie) Pienaar

"Death by violence may sometimes be a shorter, easier passage home than death from disease; and come in whatever shape it may, death can be no calamity to the Christian."
— from Christmas with Grandma Elsie by Martha Finley