The comparison here of the flight of Apollo after Daphne, to that of the greyhound after the hare, is considered to be very beautifully drawn, and to give an admirable illustration of the eagerness with which the God pursues on the one hand, and the anxiety with which the Nymph endeavors to escape on the other.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

To assure himself on this point he asked a market-man when near the borough if the newly-married couple had gone away, and was promptly informed that they had not; they were at that hour, according to all accounts, entertaining a houseful of guests at their home in Corn Street.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

And I used to lie watching the blessed bird stalking round and growing, growing; and think how I could make a living out of him by showing him about if I ever got taken off.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

“Then would you be so good as to have it computed for me?” said Chichikov.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

‘She then left me—that dear friend left me alone to my God, and to him I carried a lacerated and bleeding heart, and laid it at the foot of the cross, as an atonement for the multiplied sins I had committed, whether of ignorance or wilfulness; and how shall I proceed to portray the heart-felt agonies of that night preceding my deliverance from the shafts of Satan?
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

But the upper part, on account of the great heat in it, throws up branches into the air through the knots; and this, when it is cut off about twenty feet from the ground and then hewn, is called "knotwood" because of its hardness and knottiness.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

We marched along the bank of the river to the Kiôbashi gate of the castle, and turning in there, found that the granaries and the hommaru (inner circle) had been set on fire, but no one could tell us by whom this had been done.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Every now and then, glancing at the heaps, I could see the gleaming eyes of some of the rats which infested the place.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

The account I have given as to how I came to be connected with this industry may be relied upon as being correct, while there are many living witnesses, irrespective of the stock of my saltpetre still existing, to prove that I deliberately prevented “the refining of saltpetre” so far as it lay in my power to do so.
— from A Prisoner of the Khaleefa: Twelve Years Captivity at Omdurman by Charles Neufeld

The prison was still and long continued a school of depravity, to which came tyros, some already viciously inclined, some still innocent, to be quickly taught all manner of iniquity, and to graduate and take honours in crime.
— from Chronicles of Newgate, Vol. 2 From the eighteenth century to its demolition by Arthur Griffiths

He believes still in the justice of God, the providence of God, and therefore he is cheerful, active—he can make the best even of a dungeon.
— from True Words for Brave Men: A Book for Soldiers' and Sailors' Libraries by Charles Kingsley

[73] "Though the male and female are greatly attached they do not go afield to hunt in company, but separate to meet at intervals during the day.
— from The Truth About Woman by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

(Students’) Empoigner une —— , to lose at a game, and to have in consequence to stand all round .
— from Argot and Slang A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words, Quaint Expressions, Slang Terms and Flash Phrases Used in the High and Low Life of Old and New Paris by Albert Barrère

The Son of God is present in the ministry of the Gospel, and there He is certainly efficacious in the believers, and He is present not on account of the bread, but on account of man, as He says, 'Abide in Me and I in you,' Again: 'I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you,'
— from Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

Putting forth all his vast strength he scrambled with incredible speed straight up that hollow shaft, I holding on like grim death, and giving all the help I could.
— from My Strange Rescue, and Other Stories of Sport and Adventure in Canada by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley

Going across the hills I came quite accidentally upon one of the smugglers' hiding-places, and was seized before I had time to say a word.
— from Through Russian Snows: A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Fortunately, perhaps, for us and for him, and perhaps for Dickens, he did not succeed; he lived to write books of his own, and to illustrate them himself; and it is generally admitted that his illustrations, clever as they are, were not up to the mark of his writings.
— from Social Pictorial Satire by George Du Maurier