When Archilochus, the first lyrist of the Greeks, makes known both his mad love and his contempt to the daughters of Lycambes, it is not his passion which [Pg 46] dances before us in orgiastic frenzy: we see Dionysus and the Mænads, we see the drunken reveller Archilochus sunk down to sleep—as Euripides depicts it in the Bacchæ, the sleep on the high Alpine pasture, in the noonday sun:—and now Apollo approaches and touches him with the laurel.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

They go into the town where everybody knows them, sometimes under the gaze of the governor, in the presence of the courts, in the presence of the sheriff and his deputies, in the presence of the entire police force, take out the prisoner, take his life, often with fiendish glee, and often with acts of cruelty and barbarism which impress the reader with a degeneracy rapidly approaching savage life.
— from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Our rooms are on the Rue de Rivoli, and sitting on the balcony, we look up and down the long, brilliant street.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Now when thy heavy eyelids close For ever in thy deep repose, Again shall Daṇḍak forest be Safe refuge for the devotee.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

And so I, having enough for once, refusing to venture, though Brisband pressed me hard, and tempted me with saying that no man was ever known to lose the first time, the devil being too cunning to discourage a gamester; and he offered me also to lend me ten pieces to venture; but I did refuse, and so went away, and took coach and home about 9 or to at night, where not finding my wife come home, I took the same coach again, and leaving my watch behind me for fear of robbing, I did go back and to Mrs. Pierces, thinking they might not have broken up yet, but there I find my wife newly gone, and not going out of my coach spoke only to Mr. Pierce in his nightgown in the street, and so away back again home, and there to supper with my wife and to talk about their dancing and doings at Mrs. Pierces to-day, and so to bed. 2nd.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In fact it was rather difficult for her to keep in her place while she made her speech: the two Queens pushed her so, one on each side, that they nearly lifted her up into the air: ‘I rise to return thanks—’ Alice began: and she really did rise as she spoke, several inches; but she got hold of the edge of the table, and managed to pull herself down again.
— from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

O giant King, the dame release, And sue to Raghu's son for peace”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

If I can be firm enough to-day to do right, and scorn eyes, [196] I must have done so much right before as to defend me now.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

On which ground, too, it was well said there lay in the Acknowledged Strongest a divine right; as surely there might in the Strongest, whether Acknowledged or not,—considering who made him strong.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

[28] She is not as daintily rounded as she was once.
— from The Old Stone House and Other Stories by Anna Katharine Green

This letter was directed to Stanbury at the office of the D. R., and Sir Marmaduke, as he wrote the pernicious address, felt himself injured in that he was compelled to write about his daughter to a man so circumstanced.
— from He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope

“Suppose I should come to the conclusion that Caleb did right, and should prove it by arguments, should you feel a little glad, or a little sorry?”
— from Caleb in the Country by Jacob Abbott

When Marriott had finished, Dalrymple rose and said: "Your Honor, we offer as evidence a certified copy of an indictment returned by the grand jury at this present term, and the government rests."
— from The Turn of the Balance by Brand Whitlock

“Questo” meant everything 67 from mosquito-bars to vegetables; and the combination of the two words with a sprinkling of “si’s” and “non’s” were all one needed to define any shade of feeling—pride, surprise, delight, regret, apology, sadness.
— from Seekers in Sicily: Being a Quest for Persephone by Jane and Peripatetica by Anne Hoyt

Had Dorothy raged also, she would have gained the ascendancy.
— from The Yellow Holly by Fergus Hume

Many a cowboy has dismounted, rescued a steer from the mire—and had to run for his life.
— from Injun and Whitey to the Rescue by William S. Hart

So long as the city obeyed and trusted God it was impregnable, though all the nations stood round about it, like dogs round a sheep.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St. Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren