Each leader now his scatter'd force conjoins In close array, and forms the deepening lines.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Their blood, a bright ethereal fluid called Ichor, never engendered disease, and, when shed, had the power of producing new life.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

What does he do, ma'am, but ask for a few coals; if it's only a pocket handkerchief full, he says!
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The St. Louis Exposition was its first creation in the twentieth century, and, for that reason, acutely interesting.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

And there I beheld a tall, lady-like figure, clad in black.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Grey is the favourite colour in which he wrappeth his virtue.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

can they expect a blessing or inheritance from Christ in heaven, that defraud Christ of his inheritance here on earth?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The nobles, both in the larger and the smaller rooms, grouped themselves in camps, and from their hostile and suspicious glances, from the silence that fell upon them when outsiders approached a group, and from the way that some, whispering together, retreated to the farther corridor, it was evident that each side had secrets from the other.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

On which account Onias, who was the nephew of Onias that was dead, and bore the same name with his father, came into Egypt, and got into the friendship of Ptolemy Philometor, and Cleopatra his wife, and persuaded them to make him the high priest of that temple which he built to God in the prefecture of Heliopolis, and this in imitation of that at Jerusalem; but as for that temple which was built in Egypt, we have spoken of it frequently already.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

After eating a good square meal, the average individual calls for the dessert, which, with its accompaniments, actually constitutes a second meal; as, for example, a serving of pie, three hundred fifty calories; its cheese accompaniment, another one hundred calories; a few stuffed dates, another one hundred calories; a few nuts and raisins and a cup of chocolate bringing the total value of this second meal forced upon the body up to seven hundred or eight hundred calories.
— from The Food Question: Health and Economy by Various

With regard to ornamentation, a distinct position is held by two monuments, companions to each other, which tradition ascribes to Giuliano da Sangallo—those of Francesco Sassetti and his wife, in their family chapel in Sta.
— from Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent (vol. 2 of 2) by Alfred von Reumont

An architect like the French Consul is on his guard against a financial, social and moral danger of this sort.
— from The Modern Regime, Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine

But when the day decreed (for come it must) Shall lay this dreadful hero in the dust, Let then the furies of that arm be known, Secure no Grecian force transcends thy own.
— from The Iliad by Homer

While doing so, the outlaw said to him: “Father Corraine, I am hunted like a coyote for a crime I did not commit.
— from Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Complete by Gilbert Parker

94.—From Christian Iconography (Didron).
— from Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions by Harold Bayley

Anonymous and pseudonymous, and corporate works are not named in the act, and the term is presumably fifty years, unless in the former cases identity is disclosed.
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

In 1908 the death rate for whites in the city was 16.6 in every thousand; for colored (including Chinese), 28.9, almost double the white rate.
— from Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York by Mary White Ovington

Men live in united local communities, relatively large, and carefully regimented, before they have learned to domesticate animals, or to obey chiefs, or to practise the rudest form of agriculture, or to fashion clay into pottery, or to build permanent hovels.
— from The Secret of the Totem by Andrew Lang

For weeks this frying continues in the streets; but after the day of San Giuseppe, not only the sacred frittelle are made, but thousands of minute fishes, fragments of cauliflower, broccoli , cabbage, and carciofi go into the hissing oil, and are heaped all " dorati " upon the platters and vases.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various