So forth they marchen in this goodly sort, To take the solace of the open aire, And in fresh flowring fields themselves to sport; Emongst the rest rode that false Lady faire, The foule Duessa, next unto the chaire 330 Of proud Lucifera, as one of the traine: But that good knight would not so nigh repaire, Him selfe estraunging from their joyaunce vaine, Whose fellowship seemd far unfit for warlike swaine.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

So flies a herd of oxen, scattered wide, No swain to guard them, and no day to guide, When two fell lions from the mountain come, And spread the carnage thro’ the shady gloom....
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

If I went to sleep for a few moments, the image of Agnes with her tender eyes, and of her father looking fondly on her, as I had so often seen him look, arose before me with appealing faces, and filled me with vague terrors.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

So great was it, that in a voice inarticulate with rage, with a stammering tongue, and eyes that flashed living fire, he exclaimed, "Rascally clown, boorish, insolent, and ignor
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

An element of masonic consecration, and, as a symbol of the inward refreshment of a good conscience, is intended under the name of the "wine of refreshment," to remind us of the eternal refreshments which the good are to receive in the future life for the faithful performance of duty in the present.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

For Lady Fortune mocks outright At human nature's dying pangs; And if by you or me made tight The rope, she laughs that some one hangs!
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

“ Si tripa plena laudal Deum, tripa famelica laudabit fratres —if the full stomach praises God, the hungry stomach will praise the friars.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

When the natural craving is at the point of urgency, they circle about his camp or his cabin, leaving off feeding for that business; and nothing else offering, they will continue this headlong circling about a bowlder or any object bulking large in their immediate neighborhood remotely resembling the appurtenances of man, as if they had learned nothing since they were free to find licks for themselves, except that salt comes by bestowal and in conjunction with the vaguely indeterminate lumps of matter that associate with man.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The stranger, still surveying him with that gaze which penetrates, as the saying goes, to the very depths of the conscience, replied in a grave, firm voice:— “Monsieur Thénardier, one does not require a passport to travel five leagues from Paris.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The fog lifted for a moment, or else his eyes grew better used to the dimness, and he saw a strange thing.
— from Nautilus by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

There are several Americans residing here, who continue to receive frequent letters from their friends at home.
— from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (June 1913) Vol. LXXXVI. New Series: Vol. LXIV. May to October, 1913 by Various

LIGHT FOR LITTLE FOOTSTEPS; or, Bible Stories Illustrated.
— from Willie the Waif by Minie Herbert

A pole, twelve feet long, four inches in diameter at the butt and two at the top, is bored with [Pg 119] an inch hole four feet from the butt.
— from Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

He receives in his sick-chamber the following letter from John Forster:— John Forster to George Crabbe.
— from Chats on Autographs by Alexander Meyrick Broadley

I got a few letters from Hazel when she was there.
— from A Canadian Bankclerk by Jack Preston

The child-mother, her rough, unlovely face lighted for a moment with that gleam from Paradise which men never know; the huge man bending over her, and between them the wizened, disease-stricken little waif of humanity.
— from The Sowers by Henry Seton Merriman

She imputes to him injustice and cruelty: but he imputes to her that which banishes her from society; that which cuts her off for life from every thing connected with female purity; that which brands her with infamy to her latest breath.
— from Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. by William Cobbett

Each man wore a long, stout, double-edged dagger in a sheath attached to his belt, as a protection against possible attacks by sharks, with which the waters of the harbour are known to swarm; while Milsom bore, in addition, a formidable lance for the same purpose, or, rather, for the purpose of protecting Jack while the latter worked.
— from The Cruise of the Thetis: A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection by Harry Collingwood