Manahem did not tell him the full length of his reign; wherefore, upon that silence of his, he asked him further, whether he should reign ten years or not?
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The brood had almost grown to their full strength and attained the use of their wings and the full plumage of their feathers, when the owner of the field, looking over his ripe crop, said, “The time has come when I must ask all my neighbors to help me with my harvest.”
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

Here the village girls, who are anxious for lovers or husbands, repair early in the morning.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Her chest soon began panting rapidly; the whole of her tongue protruded from her mouth; her eyes, as they rolled, grew paler, like the two globes of a lamp that is going out, so that one might have thought her already dead but for the fearful labouring of her ribs, shaken by violent breathing, as if the soul were struggling to free itself.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

It was the first labor of his reign to abolish the dangerous theory of common or equal possessions: the lands and women which the sectaries of Mazdak has usurped were restored to their lawful owners; and the temperate chastisement of the fanatics or impostors confirmed the domestic rights of society.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

But for ladies of higher rank two rooms have been built adjoining the portico, but outside the precincts—you can see the windows—and the elder goes out to them by an inner passage when he is well enough.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Then ensued a long struggle with everybody, in which she broke down at last, when she had run the full length of her resistance, and sobbed her heart out, desolate; and afterwards, in a chastened, washed-out, bodiless state, she received the understanding that would not come before, and went her way sadder and wiser.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

It was the first labor of his reign to abolish the dangerous theory of common or equal possessions: the lands and women which the sectaries of Mazdak has usurped were restored to their lawful owners; and the temperate 4311 chastisement of the fanatics or impostors confirmed the domestic rights of society.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

But while Ann was so truly beloved at the Forest lodge, on her return home she found no pleasant welcome.
— from Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Complete by Georg Ebers

If his 'Auburn' is rather idealised, the most prosaic of critics cannot object to the glow thrown by the memory of the poet over the scene of now ruined happiness, and, moreover, 50 Goldsmith's delicate humour guards him instinctively from laying on his rose-colour too thickly.
— from Hours in a Library, Volume 2 New Edition, with Additions by Leslie Stephen

Orders were also issued for the periodical denunciation of ecclesiastical penalties against all violators of the Great Charter in a fashion that suggested that the king was an habitual offender against the fundamental laws of his realm.
— from The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by T. F. (Thomas Frederick) Tout

The late General Trimble said: “It will be easily understood that as Pickett’s line was overlapped by the Federal lines on his right, and
— from Pickett or Pettigrew? An Historical Essay by W. R. (William R.) Bond

Brown made a sign to the Canarios, who dipped the oars, and as they slid past the Carsegarry , which lay with steam blowing off, and a water barge alongside, Captain Farquhar leaned over her rails.
— from For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss

Let others serve thee for love of Henry; reject not my service, given but for revenge on Edward,—as much, henceforth, am I his foe as formerly his friend and maker!
— from The Last of the Barons — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Only a few lines of his remaining work contain any criticism.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

When it had faded away like the clouds, the lonely little fellow cried himself to sleep for love of his Robinson Crusoe.
— from In the Footprints of the Padres by Charles Warren Stoddard

No one looking into the firm lines of his resolute face could imagine him ever abandoning a purpose or being turned aside when he once formed an opinion.
— from The Little Colonel by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston