And so he progress, and he scatter these graves of him; and none but he know where they are hidden.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

This is what we have to witness in one who was indeed 'great of heart' and no less pure and tender than he was great.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Zeus, as we have seen, often condescends to visit mankind, either as a mortal, or under various disguises, whereas Jupiter always remains essentially the supreme god of heaven, and never appears upon earth.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

One woman has a gift of healing, another not; one is a musician, and another has no music in her nature? Very true.
— from The Republic by Plato

‘One would think,’ said Ralph, speaking, in spite of himself, in a low and subdued voice, ‘that there was a funeral going on here, and not a wedding.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

When they appeared at the gates, it happened nearly as Dareios supposed, for the guards, having respect for men who were chief among the Persians, and not suspecting that anything would be done by them of the kind proposed, allowed them to pass in under the guiding of heaven, and none asked them any question.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

She sits down and goes on, hesitating and not looking at me.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I've been grieving over her all night as I sat with you....
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

456 One woman has a gift of healing, another not; one is a musician, and another has no music in her nature? Very true.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Hilary took a firmer grip on his automatic, nodded once to Grim.
— from Slaves of Mercury by Nathan Schachner

If I had got the two balloons instead of the airplane, I probably would not have lost my machine, for he would in all probability have gone on home and not bothered about getting my range and causing the destruction of my machine.
— from Outwitting the Hun: My Escape from a German Prison Camp by Pat O'Brien

He did not look around, and she laid a hand gently on his arm, not daring to touch it firmly lest it be shattered.
— from Where the Souls of Men are Calling by Credo Fitch Harris

Moreover, a persistent series of south-westerly winds prohibited all attempts to round the Breton peninsula, while Godfrey of Harcourt, a Norman lord who had incurred the wrath of Philip VI. and had been driven into exile, persistently urged on Edward the superior attractions of his native coast.
— from The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by T. F. (Thomas Frederick) Tout

But I suppose it is pretty mean to go on having a nice time when somebody else isn't—even if you don't like them—and not ask them."
— from The Story of the Big Front Door by Mary Finley Leonard

There remained to him a single gleam of hope: a note of explanation had been promised; he thought it just possible that it might have been sent to the steamship rather than to his lodgings in London.
— from The Bandbox by Louis Joseph Vance

Little Jessie was sent to an excellent school, with strict instructions to the mistress to make a good girl of her, and not a fashionable young lady.
— from The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins

But the action of the simple gases, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen, was incomparably less than that produced by some of the compound gases, while these latter again differed widely from each other.
— from The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers and an exposition of the physical principles to which they are related by John Tyndall

It is by no means unheard of that after sitting at table next to the guest of honor, a New Yorker will meet her the next day with utter unrecognition.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post