Zeus was certainly, as these writers say, a title given to Ham; yet it will be found originally to have belonged to his father; for titles were not uniformly appropriated.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

When they at last became men they lived but a short time, for they would not abstain from mutual injury, nor pay the service due to the gods, and were therefore banished to Hades.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

He jumped up from the sofa and suddenly, with a rapid gesture, snatched up the revolver from the window, ran with it into the next room, and closed the door behind him.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When the four travellers went in search of the Witch she had seen them coming, and so sent the Winged Monkeys to bring them to her.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Hence it would be very natural for those who are asked to invest to say, “We will not put any money into this enterprise until you show us that you can get enough to complete it.”
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

The words, "Nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do," [242] are assuredly not meant as an affirmation, but as an interrogation, such as is used by persons threatening, as, e.g. , when Dido exclaims, "They will not take arms and pursue?"
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

This book, the earliest of the kind, gives the singular fact that within a dozen years after the landing of the Gipsies, companies of English vagrants were formed, places of meeting appointed, districts for plunder and begging operations marked out, and rules agreed to for their common management.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Gargantua finding himself somewhat dry, asked whether they could get any lettuce to make him a salad; and hearing that there were the greatest and fairest in the country, for they were as great as plum-trees or as walnut-trees, he would go thither himself, and brought thence in his hand what he thought good, and withal carried away the six pilgrims, who were in so great fear that they did not dare to speak nor cough.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

But grief is a very different passion from that which swells in their bosoms.
— from A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister by Harvey Newcomb

In the distance facing them, was the Prussian contingent of the Allied army, under Blucher, its center holding Ligny, its right and left wings extending respectively towards St. Amand and Sombrey.
— from For Love of a Bedouin Maid by Voleur

Even as that Roman grasp relaxed and let fall the world, so has Shakespeare’s self let go for awhile his greater world of imagination, with all its all but infinite variety of life and thought and action, for love of that more infinite variety which custom could not stale.
— from A Study of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne

I The next evening, when Edwin and his father reached Bristol, a steady drizzle had set in from the west.
— from The Young Physician by Francis Brett Young

Now that the whole force of a great nation includes several Armies, it is desirable to have a separate word for the whole Army .
— from Organization: How Armies are Formed for War by Hubert Foster

But there are other and broader reasons still why it is women who should in the main be the leaders and teachers of women in the trade union, that newest and best school for the working-women.
— from The Trade Union Woman by Alice Henry

But in my opinion the prettiest of all modes of catching them is to rove for them with the live minnow.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 4, October 1852 by Various

When they saw that all combined they were no match for this wildcat they had roused to action, they said: "Well, le's call it quits.
— from Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North by Fullerton Leonard Waldo

In one night our family was completely broken up by a couple of adventurers, who ought certainly to have had some mercy on us if they had no affection for us, for they were our mother’s brother and cousin.
— from Julian Mortimer: A Brave Boy's Struggle for Home and Fortune by Harry Castlemon