Him, powerful both in riches and men, and, as it happened, deriving his descent from the mighty Gradivus, Pandion united to himself, by the marriage of his daughter Progne.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

We rejoice that the blessings of peace are to be dispensed by one who is so well acquainted with the wants and feelings of the Colony; and we flatter ourselves that York, recovering from a state of war, (during which she has been twice in the power of the enemy), will not only forget her disasters, but rise to greater prosperity under your Excellency's auspicious administration.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

In the first outcry, young Piper dashed off for the fire-engines and returned in triumph at a jolting gallop perched up aloft on the Phoenix and holding on to that fabulous creature with all his might in the midst of helmets and torches.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

It seems that if we were not determined to the application of our powers before we were assured of the adequacy of our faculties to produce an Object, these powers would remain in great part unused.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

But after they had sorely roused My anger, I punished them with grievous plagues, until they repent.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

He was too scrupulous to sell me; but he had no scruples whatever about committing a much greater wrong against the helpless young girl placed under his guardianship, as his daughter's property.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

; "rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind"
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

These nine gates had that silver and gold poured upon them by Alexander, the father of Tiberius.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

( Moniteur, 1793, No. 140, &c. ) Will you, O Girondins, parcel us into separate Republics, then; like the Swiss, like your Americans; so that there be no Metropolis or indivisible French Nation any more?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

We jumped into this swinging hencoop perched on two enormous wheels, and the young horse, after a violent swerve, started into a gallop, pitching us into the air like balls.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Now, no more Must I grow proud upon our house's pride.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays by Charles Lamb

I was—" the girl paused uncertainly, and Martin saw her face was white and strained—"I was frightened.
— from Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Norman Springer

and, besides offering a rare intellectual treat to lovers of science and letters generally, are of the greatest possible use to needy students.
— from Holidays in Eastern France by Matilda Betham-Edwards

It strikes one at first as an architectural blunder, except as a foil to the lofty front of the main structure, but it has served many great practical uses.
— from A Year in Europe by Walter W. (Walter William) Moore

And the fourth, negotiis pares; such as have great places under princes, and execute their places, with sufficiency.
— from The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral by Francis Bacon

These were certain precepts chiefly of a ritual nature, which rested upon traditional usage, and were probably promulgated to the general public under the form of royal enactments by the college of pontifices, which was entitled not to legislate but to point out the law.
— from The History of Rome, Book II From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union of Italy by Theodor Mommsen

Gibbie pointed up to it.
— from Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald

Ef yo' no wan' pull (bring) dah ress tell me, make me go pull um fo' mese'f.
— from Cunnie Rabbit, Mr. Spider and the Other Beef: West African Folk Tales by Henry W. Ward

The only Difficulty that remained, was, how to get Performers, unless we could persuade some Gentlemen of the Universities to learn to sing, in order to qualify themselves for the Stage; but this Objection soon vanished, when the Projector informed us that the Greeks were at present the only Musicians in the Turkish Empire, and that it would be very easy for our Factory at Smyrna to furnish us every Year with a Colony of Musicians, by the Opportunity of the Turkey Fleet; besides, says he, if we want any single Voice for any lower Part in the Opera, Lawrence can learn to speak Greek , as well as he does Italian , in a Fortnight's time.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir