The phaeton was driven onwards with the last words, leaving Mrs. Fitchett laughing and shaking her head slowly, with an interjectional "Sure ly , sure ly !"—from which it might be inferred that she would have found the country-side somewhat duller if the Rector's lady had been less free-spoken and less of a skinflint.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

des Touches', about 1830, when Marsay told about his first love, and she joined in the conversation.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

I wiped my tears and hushed my sobs, fearful lest any sign of violent grief might waken a preternatural voice to comfort me, or elicit from the gloom some haloed face, bending over me with strange pity.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Cast to the ground the fragments lie, And still their glory charms the eye.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

And we, who live in the light of the nineteenth century, and with the records before us, can read the history of the convulsions of Europe during the decline of the Roman empire; we can understand how that leaven, which Odin left in the bosoms of the believers in the asa-faith, first fermented a long time in secret; but we can also see how in the fullness of time, the signal given, the descendants of Odin fell like a swarm of locusts upon this unhappy empire, and, after giving it many terrible shocks, eventually overturned it, thus completely avenging the insult offered so many centuries before by Pompey to their founder Odin.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

* agurium for Lat. augurium ; see BH, § 27.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

He worked steadily, engrossed, threading backwards and forwards like a shuttle across the strip of cleared stubble, weaving the long line of riding shocks, nearer and nearer to the shadowy trees, threading his sheaves with hers.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The former, dying before his father, left a son named Gerbino, who was diligently reared by his grandfather and became a very goodly youth and a renowned for prowess and courtesy.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

In other writings I have tried to show how vital to any aspiring Nationality must ever be its autochthonic song, and how for a really great people there can be no complete and glorious Name, short of emerging out of and even rais'd on such born poetic expression, coming from its own soil and soul, its area, spread, idiosyncrasies, and (like showers of rain, originally rising impalpably, distill'd from land and sea,) duly returning there again.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Attached to a long pole it is carried out of the village, followed by a troop of young people of both sexes, who alternately frolic, lament, and sing songs.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

They fabricate likewise all such iron implements as they use very artificially; such as the heads of their darts, fish-hooks, hooking irons, ironheads , and great daggers, some of these last being as long as a bill hook, or woodcutters knife, very sharp on both sides and bent like a Turkish cymeter, and most of the men have such a dagger hanging on their left side.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr

French S. S. Venezia , Fabre, Line, At Sea, March 28th, 1917.
— from The Fleets Behind the Fleet The Work of the Merchant Seamen and Fishermen in the War by W. MacNeile (William MacNeile) Dixon

During the fourteen years in which his father lived at Savona, every little business act and legal transaction was attested before notaries, whose records have been preserved filed in filzas in the archives of the town.
— from Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery by Justin Winsor

In short, the only obstacle to this being one of the finest countries upon earth, is its great hillyness; which, allowing the woods to be cleared away, would leave it less proper for pasturage than flat land, and still more improper for cultivation, which could never be effected here by the plough.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time by Robert Kerr

The commercial development of the eastern Pacific has been far later, and still is less complete, than that of its western shores.
— from The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

She dwelt hotly on the "sniping," the treacheries, the midnight murders which had preceded the expedition, Mrs. Fotheringham listened to her with flashing looks, and suddenly she broke into a denunciation of war, the military spirit, and the ignorant and unscrupulous persons at home, especially women, who aid and abet politicians in violence and iniquity, the passion of which soon struck Diana dumb.
— from The Testing of Diana Mallory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

A descriptive treatise on the different Projectiles Charges, Fuzes, Rockets, &c., at present in use for Land and Sea Service, and on other war stores manufactured in the Royal Laboratory.
— from History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 3 (of 3) Third Edition by Kaye, John William, Sir

Over the stream below the slope, Where the women wash their webs at noon, A form like a shadow seems to grope, Doubtful under the doubtful moon.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. by Various

For the purposes of such a generalisation, we may rank the Greek communities under two classes: (1) those whose incomes, down through the historic period, continued to come from land-owning, whether with slave or free labour, as Sparta; and (2) those which latterly flourished chiefly by commerce, whether with or without military domination, as Athens and Corinth.
— from The Evolution of States by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

The hurly o’ the whistling claymore has warmed our hearts; the sight of friends stark from lead and steel and rope has garred them rin like water.
— from A Daughter of Raasay: A Tale of the '45 by William MacLeod Raine