Loud laugh the rest, e'en Neptune laughs aloud, Yet sues importunate to loose the god.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

But once the threat is carried into effect, it exists no longer, and your opponent can devote his attention to his own schemes.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

nay, thou art too wise, too good, not to have—why, I watched thee; and e'en now look at you twain!
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

the numbers soft and clear, Gently steal upon the ear; Now louder, and yet louder rise, And fill with spreading sounds the skies; Exulting in triumph now swell the bold notes, In broken air, trembling, the wild music floats; Till, by degrees, remote and small, The strains decay, And melt away, In a dying, dying fall.
— from The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Alexander Pope

y Aldeas y pues en las villas, por medida que el numero, la andacia y sufrimiento creciese."
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

As a sign of the times I should mention here that Count Erdödy, no longer a young man, would spend weeks at a stretch doing the heaviest of farm work, labor in which he was assisted by his American wife and two daughters, one of whom could work a plow as well as any man.
— from The Iron Ration: Three Years in Warring Central Europe by George Abel Schreiner

Her eyes never looked at you long; her smile wandered, it was half for you and half for herself, for something she was thinking of that wasn't you.
— from Anne Severn and the Fieldings by May Sinclair

May your granaries be full, and your rats empty, and your chickens plump, and your envious neighbors lean, and your laborers busy, and you as idle and as happy as the day is long!
— from The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb

'My lord of Turenne will expect no less at your Highness's hands,' he continued warmly.
— from Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley John Weyman

i. 541 In Los Empeños de un Acaso , (the Consequences of an Accident), a lover resolves, for his mistress’s sake, to assist his rival in a case of difficulty:— Qué noble, honrado y valiente, viendo humilde á su enemigo, no le ampara y favorece?
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek