The joyous day gan early to appeare, And faire Aurora from the deawy bed Of aged Tithone gan herselfe to reare With rosy cheekes, for shame as blushing red; 455 Her golden locks for haste were loosely shed About her eares, when Una her did marke Clymbe to her charet, all with flowers spred; From heaven high to chase the chearelesse darke, With merry note her loud salutes the mounting larke.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

Though she came upon the count in his dressing gown every day, he invariably became confused and begged her to excuse his costume.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

He was looking for her—he was here beside her—he was gazing down at her with something in his dark grey eyes that Rilla had never seen in them.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

This is Hayton's account of the Parthian tactics of the Tartars: "They will run away, but always keeping their companies together; and it is very dangerous to give them chase, for as they flee they shoot back over their heads, and do great execution among their pursuers.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

O Wahrheit, deinen edeln Wein / Musst du 25 mit Wasser mischen; / Denn willst du ihn rein auftischen, / So nimmt er den Kopf den Gästen ein —O Truth, thy noble wine thou must mix with water, for wert thou to serve it out pure, it would get into the heads of the guests and turn them.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

El tío Paciencia emprendió el camino del cielo muy contento con la esperanza de gozar eternamente de la gloria, de vivir en el mundo donde todos los hombres eran iguales, de encontrar allí a sus queridos amigos
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

“Quand l’institution d’une haute cour,” writes Laveleye, ( Des causes actuelles de guerre en Europe et de l’arbitrage )
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

Even Paul at times felt its mesmerism and exclaimed: “I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.”
— from Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

The Cape Mounted [Pg 58] Rifles did good execution, for the Boers who had approached to 250 yards of their position were forced to remove.
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 5 (of 8) From the Disaster at Koorn Spruit to Lord Roberts's Entry into Pretoria by Louis Creswicke

“Tous les hommes de génie et de progrès en Russie étaient, sont, et seront toujours des gamblers et des drunkards qui boivent in outbreaks … and I’m not such a gambler after all, and I’m not such a drunkard.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Mr. Hudson displayed great energy in supporting the measure, and he worked hard to insure its success both in and out of Parliament; but he himself attributed the chief merit to Stephenson.
— from The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive by Samuel Smiles

The doctor grew every moment more vexed.
— from The Lady of the Ice: A Novel by James De Mille

Season to taste, and cook in it noodles made according to directions given elsewhere.
— from The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Myrtle Reed

In the Golden Targe , Dunbar gives expression to the popular view of Chaucer in his day:— O reverend Chaucer, rose of rethoris
— from Chaucer and His Times by Grace E. (Grace Eleanor) Hadow

There was Miss Millard;—black curly hair and deep, deep grey eyes, and sweet pink cheeks.
— from Kate Greenaway by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann

'When I would do good, evil is present with me.'
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

We feel how very nearly ready he was to see the mental experiences of the race in east and west, not as superstition, degradation, grovelling error, but as aspects of intellectual effort and aspiration richly worthy of human interest and scientific consideration, and in their aim as well as in their substance all of one piece with the newest science and the last voices of religious or anti-religious development.
— from Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol. 1 of 2) by John Morley