Now know I what the Gods designed, And how in Ráma's form enshrined The might of Purushottam lay, The tyrant of the worlds to slay.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

One night, a couple of brother Jacobins are doorkeepers; for the members take this post of duty and honour in rotation, and admit none that have not tickets: one doorkeeper was the worthy Sieur Lais, a patriotic Opera-singer, stricken in years, whose windpipe is long since closed without result; the other, young, and named Louis Philippe, d'Orleans's firstborn, has in this latter time, after unheard-of destinies, become Citizen-King, and struggles to rule for a season.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Mr. Huntingdon is very ill, but not dying, or in any immediate danger; and he is rather better at present than he was when I came.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

o' day?" Farmer Groby had espied the two figures from the distance, and had inquisitively ridden across, to learn what was their business in his field.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Sapían siya kay dakug almasin, He is rich because he has a big store.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Write down all I said And tell Tom, Dick and Harry I rose from the dead.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

my fond regard For ane that shares my bosom, Inspires my Muse to gie 'm his dues For deil a hair I roose him.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

He has a domain as broad as his own manly heart to defend, and he is really “a power on earth .”
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Ten days later Napoleon was present at the opening of the legislative session at Paris, where he spoke with confidence of his designs and hopes in regard to Spain.
— from Military Career of Napoleon the Great An Account of the Remarkable Campaigns of the "Man of Destiny"; Authentic Anecdotes of the Battlefield as Told by the Famous Marshals and Generals of the First Empire by Montgomery B. Gibbs

She feared she had hazarded too much, and immediately observed, "Perhaps, in my abhorrence of duplicity and hypocrisy, I run into the opposite extreme, and express my sentiments too openly.
— from Love After Marriage; and Other Stories of the Heart by Caroline Lee Hentz

Lady Mary's prying eyes were defeated, and Helena incidentally remarked that Mrs. Friend, being utterly "jacked up," had been bullied into staying in bed till luncheon.
— from Helena by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Goneril , with a sudden strong movement, shuts the resisting door and holds it rigidly.
— from King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Danaë by Gordon Bottomley

In 1829 a Fire Department was started by public subscription; about the same time the Police Department also had its remote beginning in the appointment of seven watchmen.
— from Jersey City and Its Historic Sites by Harriet Phillips Eaton

There seemed no escape from the dangers around him; inevitable ruin was his lot: he doubtless intended to apply a considerable portion of this money to the repair of his shattered fortunes—of his affection for you there can be no question——” “There, there,” said Mark, interrupting him rudely; “there is no need to defend a father to his son.
— from The O'Donoghue: Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever

These news gave him much dissatisfaction, and he is reported to have vented his distress on the occasion to the following purpose.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

Place, scale, and subject are determined for him on the cloister wall or the church dome; as he is required, and for sufficient daily bread, and little more, he paints what he has been taught to design wisely, and has passion to realize gloriously: every touch he lays is eternal, every thought he conceives is beautiful and pure: his hand moves always in radiance of blessing; from day to day his life enlarges in power and peace; it passes away cloudlessly, the starry twilight remaining arched far against the night.
— from The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm by John Ruskin