For he thought death so slight a punishment, that upon hearing that Carnulius, one of the accused, who was under prosecution, had killed himself, he exclaimed, “Carnulius has escaped me.”
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

For to each class his equal mind With sympathy and love inclined Most fully of the princely four, So greatest love to him they bore.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The caged eagle, whose gold-ringed eyes cruelty has extinguished, might look as looked that sightless Samson.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

No sensitiveness on earth could have equaled mine at that moment.
— from The Rustlers of Pecos County by Zane Grey

The missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal church have established missions among the Shawnees, Delawares, Wyandotts, Kickapoos, Pottawatomies, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Senecas, Creeks, Oneidas, Winnebagoes and some smaller tribes.
— from History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians by Old Humphrey

'Tis a pity, for he was a well-favoured youth; but what else could he expect, meddling with such matters?"
— from Tales From Scottish Ballads by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Wilson) Grierson

[144] "Longè tamen anteibat Austriacus et corporis habitudine, et morum suavitate.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second King of Spain, Vol. 3 And Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by William Hickling Prescott

What on earth can he expect more?”
— from Thorpe Regis by Frances Mary Peard

Her face was white with a red spot burning in each cheek; her eyes matched the colour in brilliance; but it was neither of these things that brought me up suddenly, nor--though I noticed it with foreboding--the way in which she plucked at the coverlet when she spoke.
— from The Red Cockade by Stanley John Weyman

And it is certainly a fact—it is quite true, that nothing on earth could have enabled me to keep my ground, but the purity of my intentions, and the conviction of my heart, that the holy cause for which I have been contending, is just and equitable; nor would any thing on earth induce me to persevere, but the solemn conviction that it is the law of God and Nature, that man should enjoy civil and religious freedom, and that no law of God or Nature ever condemned a human being to be either a religious or a political slave.
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Henry Hunt

no English critic has expressed more fully the place of the great German poem in world literature, than did this enthusiastic pro-German of the first half of the Nineteenth Century.
— from The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

But how shall I describe my emotions when she suddenly blended syllables of our language with the accents of her song, and, still looking into the doctor’s eyes, closed her entrancing melody with the burning words, “I love you”?
— from Daybreak; A Romance of an Old World by James Cowan