He spoke a few words to some of the generals, and, recognizing the former commander of Rostóv’s division, smiled and beckoned to him.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

For when the brethren found his body uncorrupted, after having been many years buried, they took some part of the hair, to give, as relics, to friends who asked for them, or to show, in testimony of the miracle.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Of his other works, we have much cause to regret the loss of his Antiquities of Things Human and Divine , the standard work on the religious and secular antiquities of Rome down to the time of Augustus, and his Imagines , biographical sketches, with portraits, of seven hundred famous Greeks and Romans, the first instance in history of the publication of an illustrated book.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

But one day a Stag came into the meadow, and said he had as good a right to feed there as the Horse, and moreover chose all the best places for himself.
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

It is evident that the very same event, which by its certainty would produce grief or joy, gives always rise to fear or hope, when only probable and uncertain.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

For a time, however, the common desire of gaining a return to Florence held them together.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Beauty even gave a right to fame; and we find in Greek histories the most beautiful people distinguished.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, / Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; / Another race the following spring supplies; / They fall successive, and successive rise.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

In Athens, the shadow is equal to three fourths of the length of the gnomon; at Rhodes to five sevenths; at Tarentum, to nine elevenths; at Alexandria, to three fifths; and so at other places it is found that the shadows of equinoctial gnomons are naturally different from one another.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

He was much too good a rider to fall off.
— from In Brief Authority by F. Anstey

You didn’t get anything,” retorted the fisherman.
— from Fenn Masterson's Discovery; or, The Darewell Chums on a Cruise by Allen Chapman

I say I was impressed with a deep sense of gratitude, and resolved to follow his advice.
— from The Quadroon: Adventures in the Far West by Mayne Reid

The guests are requested to fill out the cards with the names of countries the flags represent, and are allowed fifteen minutes in which to do this.
— from Games for All Occasions by Mary E. Blain

The organ is placed in the west gallery, and rather takes from a good perspective, as seen looking westward, the stone columns and plaster-moulded arcade giving a very poor effect; and the church generally supports some well-designed work in the clerestory, where oddly enough we find stone used again, though we cannot help feeling glad to see it, instead of the plaster work before referred to.
— from The Church Index A Book of Metropolitan Churches and Church Enterprise: Part I. Kensington by William Pepperell

Greek and Roman travelers found now a language spoken in Egypt which they could understand, and philosophers and scholars could gratify the curiosity which they had so long felt, in respect to the institutions, and monuments, and wonderful physical characteristics of the country, with safety and pleasure.
— from Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott

By this she tranquilized Mrs. George, and retarded thus for some days the moment when Rudolph must hear of the abduction.
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue

The Kursaal is built in terraces and galleries going all round the front and side of it.
— from A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair