The Sunday papers printed separate editions as further news came to hand, some even in default of it.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

“And you will protect us, who are your children, against the will of my father?” Noirtier cast an intelligent glance at Morrel, as if to say, “perhaps I may.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

And, indeed, if any one does but attend to the other parts of their military discipline, he will be forced to confess that their obtaining so large a dominion hath been the acquisition of their valor, and not the bare gift of fortune; for they do not begin to use their weapons first in time of war, nor do they then put their hands first into motion, while they avoided so to do in times of peace; but, as if their weapons did always cling to them, they have never any truce from warlike exercises; nor do they stay till times of war admonish them to use them; for their military exercises differ not at all from the real use of their arms, but every soldier is every day exercised, and that with great diligence, as if it were in time of war, which is the reason why they bear the fatigue of battles so easily; for neither can any disorder remove them from their usual regularity, nor can fear affright them out of it, nor can labor tire them; which firmness of conduct makes them always to overcome those that have not the same firmness; nor would he be mistaken that should call those their exercises unbloody battles, and their battles bloody exercises.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

" So saying he gave the urn over to Nestor, who received it gladly and answered, "My son, all that you have said is true; there is no strength now in my legs and feet, nor can I hit out with my hands from either shoulder.
— from The Iliad by Homer

But apart from this popularity, the fear in which he was held throughout the township, and indeed down the whole thirty miles of the valley and past the mountains on each side of it, was enough in itself to fill his bar; for none could afford to neglect his good will.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

Antoninus Liberalis, quoting from Nicander, calls him Terambus, and says that he lived at the foot of Mount Pelion; he incurred the resentment of the Nymphs, who changed him into a scarabæus, or winged beetle.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy, Naething could resist my Nancy: But to see her was to love her; Love but her, and love for ever.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Where I have been lately, there is a Bishopsgate Street merchant who has been made for no conceiveable public reason a baron bold.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Is it possible that foreign nations can either respect or confide in such a government? Is it possible that the people of America will longer consent to trust their honor, their happiness, their safety, on so precarious a foundation?
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Then he dropped them to his side and said, “Naw, don’t throw it, else we’ll get fined for not comin’ in on time after the whistle blew.”
— from Men and Things by Henry A. Atkinson

From the union of these parties, Governor Martin entertained sanguine hopes of making a successful struggle for North Carolina.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

It is a method of forming new communities of Hindus which is very {50} easily intelligible to us, seeing that our own race is split into sections only differing from castes in not being strictly endogamous, such as Anglo-Indians, Australians, New Zealanders, and so forth.
— from The Peoples of India by J. D. (James Drummond) Anderson

How they knew the location of the fire, none could guess, for it had not yet streamed out against the sky; but know it they did; and the dove goes to its cote not more directly than they centred from all parts of the district upon the exact spot of the fire.
— from Round the Block: An American Novel by John Bell Bouton

Fayetteville , N. Carolina.
— from A Literary & Historical Atlas of America by J. G. (John George) Bartholomew

236 The best and most careful rearing of girls, suffering from nymphomania, can not save them from downfall.
— from Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence by Bernard Simon Talmey

Other good proverbs for those at the commencement of life, are: that "A man is valued as he makes himself valuable"; "Crises form not character, but reveal it"; "He that finds it easy to repent will not find it hard to sin"; "Wine neither keeps secrets nor carries out promises"; "Bacchus has drowned more than Neptune"; and, happy truth, "Every slip is not a fall."
— from Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme

[278] The reason assigned for not convoking the States General in proper form, viz., that time did not permit the necessary delay, must be considered scarcely sufficient to explain the irregularity.
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

But, except in the Laxdæla Saga (trans. by Mrs. Press in the Temple Classics, Dent, 1899), one seems to find no Celtic strain.
— from The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 1 of 2) A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor