Again, a blow beyond its nature's strength Shatters forthwith each living thing soe'er, And on it goes confounding all the sense Of body and mind.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

that I love you wholly and entirely?—or if,’ he added with a lurking smile, ‘I ever give a thought to another, you may well spare it, for those fancies are here and gone like a flash of lightning, while my love for you burns on steadily, and for ever, like the sun.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

And sometimes they will go on abusing one another until the company at last are quite vexed at themselves for ever listening to such fellows.
— from Gorgias by Plato

And it came to pass that after they had bound me, insomuch that I could not move, the compass, which had been prepared of the Lord, did cease to work; wherefore, they knew not whither they should steer the ship, insomuch that there arose a great storm, yea, a great and terrible tempest, and we were driven back upon the waters for the space of three days; and they began to be frightened exceedingly, lest they should be drowned in the sea; nevertheless they did not loose me.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

he asked, well pleased, for everybody loved to see a minstrel.
— from Stories of Robin Hood by Bertha Evangeline Bush

SHELLEY Knight-errant of the Never-ending Quest, And Minstrel of the Unfulfilled Desire; For ever tuning thy frail earthly lyre To some unearthly music, and possessed With painful passionate longing to invest The golden dream of Love's immortal fire With mortal robes of beautiful attire, And fold perfection to thy throbbing breast!
— from The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Henry Van Dyke

Yet was not thy departing immature; For ripe in virtue thou wert reft away, And pure in spirit, as the bless'd are pure; Pure as the dewdrop, freed from earthly leaven, That sparkles, is exhaled, and blends with heaven!
— from The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas by Henry Kirke White

The selfsame day When, port and palace open thrown, Low at thy footstool Egypt lay, That selfsame day, three lustres gone, Another victory to thine hand Was given; another field was won By grace of Caesar's high command.
— from The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace by Horace

And Caleb feared exceedingly lest they should lay hands upon him; but being a discreet man and in pursuit of his duty furthermore, he made a bold stand before them.
— from Stephen: A Soldier of the Cross by Florence Morse Kingsley

My career was by no means distinguished; four times a day I walked up and down from Edge Lane to school.
— from Recollections of a Busy Life: Being the Reminiscences of a Liverpool Merchant 1840-1910 by Forwood, William Bower, Sir

In the first light of the December moon, Peary with Henson and the doctor and four Eskimo left the ship with the intention of reaching Fort Conger.
— from The Siege and Conquest of the North Pole by George Bryce

For the first eight lines, the second half line is a refrain.
— from The Assyrian and Hebrew Hymns of Praise by Charles Gordon Cumming

The full squares in the figure represent the face ends lifted; the small dots represent the back ends lifted; and the circles show all the face ends lifted on the back picks, which keep the two cloths quite separate.
— from Cotton Weaving and Designing 6th Edition by John T. Taylor