[122-154] he cries, 'whoso thou art, and speak with my father face to face, and enter our home and hospitality.'
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Meanwhile Cheirisophus had sent some of his men quartered in the village to enquire how they fared in the rear; they were overjoyed to see them, and handed over the sick folk to them to carry into camp, while they themselves continued their march forward, and ere twenty furlongs were past reached the village in which Cheirisophus was quartered.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

With this there came a knight riding all armed on a great horse, and took the lady away with him with force, and ever she cried and made great dole.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

“Are you laughing beforehand at the prospect of seeing ‘our fellows’?” chirped gaily Pyotr Stepanovitch, dodging round him with obsequious alacrity, at one moment trying to walk beside his companion on the narrow brick pavement and at the next running right into the mud of the road; for Stavrogin walked in the middle of the pavement without observing that he left no room for anyone else.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We keep an inn hereabouts, and for fifty pounds we will not only give thee a good draught of wine, but will give thee as noble a feast as ever thou didst tickle thy gullet withal.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Where the superficial fascia, after encasing the cord, descends into the scrotum, it is also devoid of the fatty tissu.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

"To formulate an experience," as Dewey says, "requires getting outside of it, seeing it as another would see it, considering what points of contact it has with the life of another
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Indeed, the contempt with which the superseded style was regarded amounted to fanaticism, and explains, in a measure, how so much of good could be relinquished in favour of so weak a successor."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

7. Try to find an example of the over-use of unusual words in a speech.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

“What is the fellow about?” exclaimed Captain Fisher.
— from Happy Jack, and Other Tales of the Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston

Will he feel at ease as he treads the minuet under the eyes of the devotee?
— from Prince Eugene and His Times by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

"No, father," said Don Ruiz, who, with his eyes fixed on his sister, was listening with sustained interest, and was attentively following the play of her flexible face, on which the varied emotions that agitated her were reflected; "I believe, on the contrary, that Marianna is at this moment revolving in her mind some strange scheme, for carrying out which she requires full and entire liberty."
— from Stronghand; or, The Noble Revenge by Gustave Aimard

Erlau's astonishment continued; apparently this affair surprised him in the highest degree, but it was very evident that he was not accustomed to refuse his favourite anything, even if it seemed to him to be a point requiring consideration.
— from Riven Bonds. Vol. II. A Novel, in Two Volumes by E. Werner

They were on the front, facing the lagoon, and, glad to feel the solid earth under his feet after eight days at sea, he sauntered down the sunny road to the water's edge.
— from The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

"Yes; there were fully a dozen of them," said Basilivitch, counting upon his fingers, and enumerating a number of poor innocents, whose only offence lay in the fact that Basilivitch owed them some private grudge.
— from Rabbi and Priest: A Story by Milton Goldsmith

This spectacle, so strange and so dishonourable to the German character, surprised the Chancellor, who found it difficult to repress his contempt, and on one occasion exclaimed, "Let it be writ in our records, for an everlasting memorial, that a German prince made such a request of a Swedish nobleman, and that the Swedish nobleman granted it to the German upon German ground!"
— from The Thirty Years War — Volume 04 by Friedrich Schiller

Most recent print media already stemmed from an electronic version anyway, on a word processor, a spreadsheet or a database.
— from Technology and Books for All by Marie Lebert

He concentrated until all faded away, even the night, the wind, the insistent waters.
— from The Wind Bloweth by Donn Byrne