And besides, hard though it was for the mother to bear the dread of illness, the illnesses themselves, and the grief of seeing signs of evil propensities in her children—the children themselves were even now repaying her in small joys for her sufferings.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The Roman god of sleep, son of Erebus and Nox (Night).
— from 1000 Mythological Characters Briefly Described Adapted to Private Schools, High Schools and Academies by Edward Sylvester Ellis

"Steel to steel, and hand to hand," said the Saxon, bluntly, touching the long knife in his leathern belt, "and he who sets gripe on Sexwolf son of Elfhelm, shall pay his weregeld twice over."
— from Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

where, seated in a great arm-chair, was a lady of gorgeous and dazzling beauty, with a little girl of some seven or eight years old at her knee, nearly as beautiful as herself.
— from Lord Montagu's Page: An Historical Romance by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

--Of all the groups of Separatists scattered over England none became so famous as those who met at Elder Brewster's house at Scrooby.
— from A Short History of the United States for School Use by Edward Channing

The tumulus of La Hallade had been violated in the Iron 11 Age, and used then as a place of interment; but underneath the cinerary urns of the Early Gaulish period was discovered the prehistoric monument intact—a long low gallery of stones set on edge and covered with flat slabs.
— from A Book of the Pyrenees by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

The three Spaniards were still clinging for their lives to the broken bulwarks, and as George looked up he caught a momentary glimpse of some seven or eight other heads peering over the rail down in the vessel’s waist; but there was nothing to indicate that anything had been done by those on board to help those who were risking their own lives to save theirs.
— from The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer by Harry Collingwood

Though it was some time before we got our show started, or even got the outfit ashore, we were a busy trio.
— from Working North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America by Harry Alverson Franck

It is enough to mention these: μηδὲν ἄγαν· μέτρον ἄριστον· γνῶθι σεαυτόν· καιρὸν γνῶθι· ἀνάγκῃ δ' οὐδὲ θεοὶ μάχονται—which are the germs of subsequent systems of ethics, metaphysics, and theories of art.
— from Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 1 of 2) by John Addington Symonds

A return movement was therefore ordered, and accomplished successfully: the whole force returned about 8 o'clock, having gone over some sixteen or eighteen miles of ground.
— from The Defence of Lucknow A Diary Recording the Daily Events during the Siege of the European Residency, from 31st May to 25th September, 1857 by T. F. (Thomas Fourness) Wilson