The congelation gains on us on all sides.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Some of the cities fell under the tyranny of Macedonian garrisons; others under that of usurpers springing out of their own confusions.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

But the noble son of Iapetus outwitted him and stole the far-seen gleam of unwearying fire in a hollow fennel stalk.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Full of ham and macaroni, slightly warmed with the Chianti and Montepulciano, and tired with our journey, we stood more in need of slumber than of love, and so we gave ourselves up to sleep till morning.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

here we halted and dined and our guides overtook us.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

They looked at each other in a grin of understanding.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

The duty of a public prosecution was intrusted to the parents of the guilty or unfortunate maid; and if the sentiments of nature prevailed on them to dissemble the injury, and to repair by a subsequent marriage the honor of their family, they were themselves punished by exile and confiscation.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

"We make it lively about the house," said the sparrow-mother; "and people say that a swallows' nest brings luck; so they are glad of us.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

hurar v 1 [A2; c] surrender, give oneself up to another’s power or control.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Now perhaps, madam, you will return to Edinburgh and allow the routine of the school to go on under my guidance, I being the head-mistress, not you!'
— from Hollyhock: A Spirit of Mischief by L. T. Meade

Go on upstairs.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Objection 1: It would seem that the gift of understanding is found also in those who have not sanctifying grace.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

It was while Milton Nobles was here that Fabian worked up a "benefit" for this library, at which Governor Vaughn, (then Governor of Utah), recited Poe's "Bells," and Nobles and the writer gave the third act of "Othello" (in evening dress), Nobles reading "Iago," and the writer "Othello."
— from The Mormons and the Theatre; or, The History of Theatricals in Utah by John S. (John Shanks) Lindsay

The most familiar are peas, beans, and lentils; peas and beans are eaten in the green or unripe state as well as in the dried.
— from The Story of Crisco by Marion Harris Neil

Here are two quotations from New York daily papers of that time, only the names { 148} of the ladies are changed: "Miss Jones looked extremely well in white with a whole nest of sparkling, scintillating birds in her hair which it would have puzzled an ornithologist to classify," and again: "Mrs. Robert Smith had her gown of unrelieved black looped up with black birds; and
— from The Bird Study Book by T. Gilbert (Thomas Gilbert) Pearson

Truth to tell, the widowed mother trembled at the idea of parting from her favourite boy, of letting him go out unprotected into the great world, so full of wickedness and temptation, of which she herself knew so little, but about which she had heard such terrible tales.
— from In the Dead of Night: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

It does not seem as if there could be any objection raised to the plan on the ground of unconstitutionality, since the greenbacks were, and are, held to be constitutional, and the new notes would be promises to pay gold and silver, as well as other commodities, if they were included in the list on which the money was based, not, to be sure, in a definite quantity, but in a definite value.
— from Honest Money by Arthur Isaac Fonda

All drudgery disappears in a rosy glow of unexpected, unique, and stimulating conditions.
— from Penelope's Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Her eyes looked full into his, and did not turn away till the lashes trembled over them suddenly, and tears gushed out upon her face.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 by Various