The giant possessing the poetic mead.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

There were a dozen easels in the room, and as many artists transferring the great picture to their canvases.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

The juice thereof taken in drink, or the decoction of it in ale, gently performs the same.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

His behaviour towards Gonzalo de Oblanco, a cavalier and a scholar, was even more severe,—when the latter boldly told him to his face that Cortes had proved himself a faithful servant to the emperor, that we all had merited a reward from his majesty, and that it was scandalous to brand us with the name of traitors, and great presumption to imprison one of his majesty's auditors, Narvaez instantly threw him into chains, and Oblanco, who was a high-spirited soul, was so hurt at this ill-treatment, that he died within the space of four days.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

She did not, at any rate, give Philip too much encouragement.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

“Goal!” “Goal!” “Pass!” “Take care my watch!” cried Mr. Beebe.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

The men who invented gunpowder, printing, the art of weaving, contribute every day to our happiness, and the same is true of the Montesquieus, the Racines and the La Fontaines.
— from On Love by Stendhal

O my sweet lady, As often as I think of those dear times When you two little ones would stand at eve On each side of my chair, and make me learn All you had learnt in the day; and how to talk In gentle phrase, then bid me sing to you— 'Tis more like heaven to come than what has been.
— from Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798) by William Wordsworth

“It’s a pity, a great pity, that you haven’t come for discussion, and it’s a great pity that you are so taken up just now with your toilet.”
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

One might suppose that an attempt would at least be made to hide from the general public the interference of such a power with the politics of a State; but railroad managers seem to rely for success as much upon intimidating political parties as upon gaining the good will of individual citizens.
— from The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by William Larrabee

The manufacture of bricks, on the other hand, made great progress; the crude bricks were larger than those of Egypt, and they were more enduring, composed of finer clay and better executed; the manufacture of burnt brick too was carried to a degree of perfection to which Memphis or Thebes never attained.
— from History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 3 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

It is by this diffusive tendency of its spirit, almost as much as by its own sublime truths, and the important applications of these to general physics, that the study of geometry has been of such inestimable advantage to science.
— from Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind (Vol. 1 of 3) by Thomas Brown

On the 22d day of May, 1524, the Sultan celebrated with great pomp the marriage of Ibrahim Pasha.
— from Ibrahim Pasha: Grand Vizir of Suleiman the Magnificent by Hester Donaldson Jenkins

And these audiences were of a very superior description, including a great many young ladies’ boarding-schools, whose favour Mrs Jarley had been at great pains to conciliate, by altering the face and costume of Mr Grimaldi as clown to represent Mr Lindley Murray as he appeared when engaged in the composition of his English Grammar, and turning a murderess of great renown into Mrs Hannah More—both of which likenesses were admitted by Miss Monflathers, who was at the head of the head Boarding and Day Establishment in the town, and who condescended to take a Private View with eight chosen young ladies, to be quite startling from their extreme correctness.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

For the first time in two years he saw white men, and, although he could not understand [352] the Dutch language, it gave him great pleasure to see some one of his own race again.
— from Famous Discoverers and Explores of America Their Voyages, Battles, and Hardships in Traversing and Conquering the Unknown Territories of a New World by Charles H. L. (Charles Haven Ladd) Johnston

The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, the dumb speak, the poor have the gospel preached to them, the paralytic recover, the dropsical lose their swellings [ detumescunt hydropici ], the mad are restored to sense, the epileptic are cured, the fever-stricken escape, and, to sum up, omnimoda curatur infirmitas .”
— from The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Archiepiscopal See by Hartley Withers

The passage was suddenly illuminated; he looked out, and by the uncertain light of the lanterns, he thought he saw Lacheneur, as pale as a ghost, pass the cell, led by some soldiers.
— from The Honor of the Name by Emile Gaboriau

The first man Mrs. Gilder presented to me was evidently quite too much interested in the pin to talk to me.
— from Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg

He was with the wild animals; and the angels were serving him. 1:14 Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom of God, 1:15 and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand!
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous