Hardly had he made an end, when the chief priestess, crying out, “You are--you are--O royal Pericles!” fell fainting to the ground, and presently recovering, she spoke again to him, “O my lord, are you not Pericles?”
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The weather had been cold and boisterous, and therefore not favourable to bees, nevertheless every female flower which I examined had been effectually fertilised by the bees, accidentally dusted with pollen, having flown from tree to tree in search of nectar.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Then to the Exchange, where I hear that the King had letters yesterday from France that the King there is in a [way] of living again, which I am glad to hear.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In fact, my dear Lizzie, I may say it was the first fuck that thoroughly realised my, or rather our, anticipations of the act.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Our opinion is not on that account that the simple blow is the best, but that we must not lift the arm too far for the time given to strike, and that this condition will always lead more to direct conflict the more warlike our opponent is.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

C H A P. XXII N O matter how, or in what mood—but I flew from the tomb of the lovers—or rather I did not fly from it—(for there was no such thing existing) and just got time enough to the boat to save my passage;—and ere
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

“Thank you, though,” he said, thinking of his life unfolding before him, free from the terror of Davey’s bites and spying and rocks thrown from afar.
— from Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow

Sometimes they are found frozen to the branch on which they have been sitting.”
— from Birds of the wave and woodland by Phil Robinson

They will, however, be free from the taxes they have hitherto paid to the Turks, and it should not be difficult for them by means of taxes far less oppressive, to pay an adequate interest on the moneys expended on them.
— from Crescent and Iron Cross by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

If morphine is heated for from two to three hours in a closed tube with dilute hydrochloric acid, water is eliminated — (C 17 H 19 NO 3 = C 17 H 17 NO 2 + H 2 O), and the hydrochlorate of apomorphine is produced.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

The County Court record says Mary was fined for “threatening” to pour scalding water on the head of the collector.
— from The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of Connecticut by John R. (John Rogers) Bolles

But I see now that in us there struggled vast creative forces, forces that through a long future, in forms as yet undreamt of, must needs mould the destiny of our race.
— from The Passionate Friends by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

In carrying out all these manœuvres—sighting the light on the Norwegian coast—the commander was thinking, not only of the present, but of the future; for the time would come, after the war had ended, when it would be necessary to remove all these mines, and it was therefore wise to "fix" them as accurately as possible in reference to landmarks, so as to know where to look for them.
— from The Victory At Sea by Burton Jesse Hendrick

The news Chet had divulged was so exciting that the girls quite forgot for the time being the wreck that Hester Grimes seemed to have made of the forthcoming performance of "The Rose Garden."
— from The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or, Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause by Gertrude W. Morrison

They embraced, promised forgetfulness on both sides, and a new friendship from that time.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various