Bloowho went by by Moulang’s pipes bearing in his breast the sweets of sin, by Wine’s antiques, in memory bearing sweet sinful words, by Carroll’s dusky battered plate, for Raoul.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

The earlier part of his stay was disturbed by pillage and bloodshed.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

All the way going and coming I learning of him the principles of Optickes, and what it is that makes an object seem less or bigger and how much distance do lessen an object, and that it is not the eye at all, or any rule in optiques, that can tell distance, but it is only an act of reason comparing of one mark with another, which did both please and inform me mightily.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The kings of Egypt were worshipped as gods, and the routine of their daily life was regulated in every detail by precise and unvarying rules.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Yet men pray for and pursue these things: this they should not do but pray that things which are in the abstract good may be so also to them, and choose what is good for themselves.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

And that is what should easily mark in a woman's eyes the difference between passion-love and gallantry, between the gentle soul and the prosaic.
— from On Love by Stendhal

So don't look at me as if I'd said something perfectly dreadful, Betty, please.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

His gait was thenceforth slow, even and unvaried by the sudden bursts of sprightlier motion which had once corresponded to his overflowing gladness; his countenance was heavier, and its former play of expression—the dance of sunshine reflected from moving water—was destroyed by the cloud over his existence; his notice was attracted in a far less degree by passing events, and he appeared to find greater difficulty in comprehending what was new to him than at a happier period.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The five species of Crane described by Polo.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

While I—well, with entreating arms about one's neck and pleading, tearful eyes looking into one's own, what could one do but promise to climb no more?
— from Alaska Days with John Muir by Samuel Hall Young

Mrs. B. It is done by plugging or loading one side of the cylinder with lead, as at B, ( fig.
— from Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Mrs. (Jane Haldimand) Marcet

The boats were hoisted out, discipline being preserved to the last.
— from The Huguenots in France by Samuel Smiles

In a tomb discovered by Peters and Thiersch in 1902, near Tell Sandahanna, the Marissa of the Seleucid period and the Moresheth-gath of Micah 1:14, a number of cocks are pictured; ( Fig. 94 ).
— from Archæology and the Bible by George A. (George Aaron) Barton

They made neat little tracks over the soft mud, drank, bathed, preened, and made other neat little tracks.
— from Gone to Earth by Mary Gladys Meredith Webb

Without in the least betraying with what ardent impetuosity their chivalrous young king seemed willing to stake life and crown to win his bride, and without the most distant allusion to the possibility of a breach of peace being caused by the failure of a negociation, which had for its object the most peaceable relations, and the most loving ties, these faithful servants of the king, had, by adducing wise and politic reasons, first brought the wise Regent Thorkild Knudsen over to their side, and, despite all the hindrances which the malicious Drost Bruncké placed in their way, at last carried their point so far as to divest the idea of the excommunication at Sjöborg, and the enforcement of the interdict at Copenhagen, of its paralysing and terrifying influence, at the Swedish court.
— from King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 3 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. by Bernhard Severin Ingemann

In return for their obedience as individuals they will without doubt be protected in the enjoyment of those possessions which they have improved by their industry.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

At first he thought it was the effect of what he had drunk, but presently, to his terror, he found he had been scalped.
— from Once Upon a Time in Delaware by Katharine Pyle

The words were spoken in the conventional tones of disappointment but Pen and none but Pen could hear the thrilling little lift in his voice.
— from Ramshackle House by Hulbert Footner