Virgil makes his wife’s name Marica— Hunc Fauna, et nympha genitum Laurente Marica Accipimus.—Aen.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

She did not believe that she would ever not get lost in this garden.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

The bold Alcimedon now greets my eyes; No Greek like him the heavenly steeds restrains, Or holds their fury in suspended reins: Patroclus, while he lived, their rage could tame, But now Patroclus is an empty name!
— from The Iliad by Homer

The double exterior nature gave life its relative values.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Its cameo-clear lines hardened, her lips were pressed together, and her large eyes narrowed, gleaming like topazes between their dark lashes, as the lights from the shaded candles on the table lighted sparks in their yellow-brown depths.
— from Lord Loveland Discovers America by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Emilie will es nicht gelten lassen, dass die Stuttgarter Luft nichts als die Ausdünstung des Teufels sei.—Ich schnappe nach Luft,
— from Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry by Wilhelm Alfred Braun

Eve no gentlier lays her cooling cheek On the burning brow of the sick earth, Sick with death, and sick with birth, Aeon to aeon, in secular fever twirled, Than thy shadow soothes this weak And distempered being of mine.
— from Sister Songs: An Offering to Two Sisters by Francis Thompson

His eyes now glared like lenses of glass reflecting a red and burning light.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

"Why didn't I have a Fräulein in my babyhood instead of an ordinary English nursery governess?" lamented Deirdre.
— from The School by the Sea by Angela Brazil

On the other hand, some Western analysts have argued that, because most of the conscripts are unskilled and underemployed, the military's drain on the [Pg 227] manpower pool entails no great loss to productive enterprise (see ch. 14).
— from Area Handbook for Romania by Eugene K. Keefe

"Ah," he said, as he bit off the end, and leaned over to the emblematic masterpiece, where the brandy was still feebly flickering, "I wonder if there's enough natural gas left to light my cigar."
— from A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete by William Dean Howells