When they had done praying and sprinkling the barley meal 32 Thrasymedes dealt his blow, and brought the heifer down with a stroke that cut through the tendons at the base of her neck, whereon the daughters and daughters in law of Nestor, and his venerable wife Eurydice (she was eldest daughter to Clymenus) screamed with delight.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

The Order was divided into langues or nationalities.
— from A Knight of the White Cross: A Tale of the Siege of Rhodes by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Wot you doin' in little ol' Noo York?” “Lookin' for a job,” said Billy.
— from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I shot, I drew, I looked on nature only; my days were happy beyond human conception, and beyond this I really cared not. 29 Victor was born June 12, 1809, at Gwathway's Hotel of the Indian Queen.
— from Audubon and His Journals, Volume 1 (of 2) by John James Audubon

[Pg 179] the disease is limited, or nearly so, to the lungs, the wasting is not considerable until the mischief in the chest is far advanced.
— from The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by Charles West

He saw, then, not a thing but a movement; something that was darker than the darkness it loomed on; not a being but a presence, and, as it were, impending pressure.
— from Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens

43 In each of these cases, you simply do not know whether what you are doing is legal or not.
— from The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle

For days and days he left me alone within the gray walls of Astura, until in a fit of desperation I left one night, and came here, to forget.
— from The Hill of Venus by Nathan Gallizier