It is beautiful, however, when it sparkles in the light of the rising sun and gently laps its banks covered with whispering reeds.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

When his ship was cleared of the men, Gregorius let Ivar be carried to the shore, so that he might escape; and from that time they were constant friends.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Good, very good; let it be conceal'd awhile.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

After this experiment, he likewise dropped the mass of gold into the full vessel and, on taking it out and measuring as before, found that not so much water was lost, but a smaller quantity: namely, as much less as a mass of gold lacks in bulk compared to a mass of silver of the same weight.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Lozang [961] , the fifth Grand Lama, is by common consent the most remarkable of the pontifical line.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

Compared with the drawing by Hancock, [109] done when Lamb was twenty-three, engraved in Cottle's Early Recollections of Coleridge , each may be said to corroborate the truth of the other, allowing for difference of age and aspect,—Hancock's being in profile, Hazlitt's (of which there is a good lithograph in Barry Cornwall's Memoir ) nearly full face.
— from Mary Lamb by Anne (Anne Burrows) Gilchrist

A very kind service was done the Prophet at this time by Joseph Knight, an old gentleman living in Broome County, New York.
— from The Latter-Day Prophet: History of Joseph Smith Written for Young People by George Q. (George Quayle) Cannon

It may interest our special parish to know further that the first American (English) Bible was printed at Philadelphia, by a Scotchman named Aitkin, in the year 1782; but the first Bible printed in America was in the German language, issued by Christopher Sauer, at Germantown, in 1743.
— from English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 2: From Elizabeth to Anne by Donald Grant Mitchell

The populace are running to the shore to meet their returned Emperor with effusion, whilst poor gouty Louis is being carried away on pickaback, lamenting, ‘Oh Heartwell, 51 I sigh for thy peacefull Shades.’
— from English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. Volume 2 (of 2) by John Ashton

Good, let it be credited accordingly.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

LORD G. Let it be courage, then.
— from The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson

Two days or so afterwards our scouts crossed Gold Lake in birch canoes and secured the release of the remaining prisoners of Big Bear, the others having come in to our lines after the fight at Frenchman's Butte, where Constable Donald McRae, still happily surviving, was wounded, but refused to leave the field till he had exhausted his ammunition.
— from Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police by R. G. (Roderick George) MacBeth

Good, very good, it is so then: good, very good, let it be conceal'd awhile Ros.
— from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare