Transfixed with shafts, with blood-streams red, Thou liest on thy lowly bed: [pg 464] So sinks to rest, his journey done, Mid arrowy rays the crimson sun.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Anne hoped against hope that he had abandoned the idea about Dick Moore, and, resolving to let sleeping dogs lie, she said no more about the subject.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

" "I know you do not—I know it perfectly," said Troy, with much hearty conviction on the exterior of his face: and altering the expression to moodiness; "when a dozen men are ready to speak tenderly to you, and give the admiration you deserve without adding the warning you need, it stands to reason that my poor rough-and-ready mixture of praise and blame cannot convey much pleasure.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

rosca , f. , anything shaped like a screw; —— de maíz , a round twisted corn-cake.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

After what it considers a sufficient interval to effect its purpose, the crocodile seizes the body of the drowned man and rises to the surface, when it “calls upon the Sun, Moon, and Stars to bear
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

And in order that the distribution may always remain, they ought to consider further that the present number of families should be always retained, and neither increased nor diminished.
— from Laws by Plato

Indian Corn , is likewise as well as the Farine de Manyoco and Rice, the common Victualling of our Slave Ships, and is afforded here at 1000 Heads for two Dollars.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

This time, Richard burst out laughing, as did Moncharmin and Remy, the secretary.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Dr. May and Richard talked of going to hear the speeches and viva voce examination in the afternoon—objects of great interest to all Stoneborough men—but just as they came home from a long day’s work, Dr. May was summoned to the next town, by an electric telegraph, and, as it was to a bad case, he did not expect to be at home till the mail-train came in at one o’clock at night.
— from The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

I have still a vivid recollection of the morning in the beginning of the year 1886 on which Mr. Ardeshir F. Vakil, senior partner in one of the leading firms of solicitors in Bombay, brought his two daughters Meherbai and Ratanbai to the Wilson College to begin their career as students of the Bombay University.
— from Les Parsis by Delphine Menant

On the third night a watch was kept By many a friar and nun: Trembling, all knelt in fervent prayer, 'Till on the dreary midnight air Rolled the deep bell-toll, 'One'!
— from Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock

The men and women are not rounded and complete; but certain disengaged motives are raised to the Titanic and thrown out with power.
— from The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 1 of 2) A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor

He took off the hat with a dragging motion and replaced the photograph on the table.
— from Black Jack by Max Brand

Public opinion which for a week had been at the culminating point of distrust, malevolence and resentment, turned the corner in a moment and for the moment believed implicitly in the faith of the lady it had abandoned.
— from Crowded Out! and Other Sketches by S. Frances (Susie Frances) Harrison

For these ships wanting only provisions, of which the natives had great store; and the natives wanting clothes (for they often despised money, and refused to take it), which the ships furnished them with in exchange for their provisions, both sides found their account in this traffick; and their captain or governor had neither power nor interest to restrain it, or to tax it.
— from A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV by Anson, George Anson, Baron

or in other words, Can equality, which, by dividing men and reducing the mass to a common level, smooths the way for the establishment of a despotism, either of an individual or of the mob, be made to promote and secure liberty?
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Hence the class of abstract ideas is in this respect distinguished from other classes; in the latter the principle of sufficient reason always demands merely a relation to another idea of the same class, but in the case of abstract ideas, it at last demands a relation to an idea of another class.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Wreaths came from, or at the request of, the following: Alfred Douglas, More Adey, Reginald Turner, Miss Schuster, Arthur Clifton, the Mercure de France, Louis Wilkinson, Harold Mellor, Mr. and Mrs. Texiera de Mattos, Maurice Gilbert, and Dr. Tucker.
— from Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 by Frank Harris