The men that dwell there are rich in cattle and sheep; they will honour him with gifts as though he were a god, and be obedient to his comfortable ordinances.
— from The Iliad by Homer

I might give alms to his body; but his body did not pain him; it was his soul that suffered, and his soul I could not reach.
— from Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville

I used to wriggle along in a most unseemly fashion, like an eel, continually moving aside to make way for generals, for officers of the guards and the hussars, or for ladies.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And as she was going into his house, his eyes being then dim with age, God appeared to him, and informed him of two things; that the wife of Jeroboam was come to him, and what answer he should make to her inquiry.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

But he sent over endless remembrances of himself to his godson and to her.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

I was proud of his interest: deeply, fondly, gratefully attached to him.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

In Macedon, the life of a man was a matter of such importance, that Alexander the Great, at the height of his glory, would not have dared to put a Macedonian criminal to death in cold blood, till the accused had appeared to make his defence before his fellow-citizens, and had been condemned by them.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The faithful Suzanne was despatched to France to pack and send to Guernsey all the Hugo family’s and Juliette’s possessions.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

And he was received and shaken hands with, and set in a comfortable chair; and a polite conversation began, before Mrs. Plowden, looking as if the matter had just occurred to her, in the midst of her inquiries for Mrs. Swinford, broke off, and said, ‘Florry, my dear, your papa will be in the study; go and tell him that Mr. Swinford is here.’
— from Lady William by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The policy of sending him to the frontier was in one respect good, as the Hezare are the only 'tribe capable of measuring themselves' with the Turkomans, and at the same time objects of dread to them: but in another point of view it may be doubted how far it is judicious, in the danger that menaces Persia on the side of the Afghans, to make use of enemies to guard the frontiers.
— from Travels in Central Asia Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand by Ármin Vámbéry

"And these men were—trying to get at the horses?" "Ah! Meant to nobble 'Moonraker,' they did,—'im bein' one o' the favorites, d' ye see, sir, and it looked to me as if they meant to do for your 'oss, 'The Terror', as well."
— from The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol

"The delegates from the Eastw d are for a very strong government, & wish to prostrate all y e State legislatures, & form a general system out of y e whole; but I don't learn that the people are with them, on y e contrary in Massachusetts they think that government too strong, & are about rebelling again, for the purpose of making it more democratical: In Connecticut they have rejected the requisition for y e present year decidedly, & no Man there would be elected to the office of a constable if he was to declare that he meant to pay a copper towards the domestic debt:—R. Island has refused to send members—the cry there is for a good government after they have paid their debts in
— from The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September 1787. Volume 1 by United States. Constitutional Convention (1787)

The small castle was built by Yezdejerd Sháh, it is of stone, in a square form with only one gate at the head of the bridge, and has no Bezestán or Imáret.
— from Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. II by Evliya Çelebi

The Glasgow therefore altered course outwards, at the same time firing her after 6-inch gun, and then, having opened the range, turned up on to a roughly parallel course with the German.
— from The Battle of the Falkland Islands, Before and After by Henry Edmund Harvey Spencer-Cooper

Gateway at Tia Huanacu 602 1029 .
— from A History of Architecture in All Countries, Volume 2, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

[376] The glasses were dark blue, giving a ghastly appearance to his emaciated face; they looked like two large holes in his countenance.
— from Ole Bull: A Memoir by Sara Chapman Thorp Bull

There the long-wandering bride shall be given again to her bridegroom, There the long-absent pastor regain his flock and his sheepfold.
— from Evangeline with Notes and Plan of Study by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow