According to the moral of this Fable, poverty is safe; great riches are liable to danger.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

He began to grow restless and lit a cigar.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

I should have strength for all my trials, and win a glorious rest at last!
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

This arrangement seemed to me to be so good, reasonable and lawful, that if I did not publicly boast of it, the motive by which I was withheld was merely my regard for their mother: but I mentioned it to all those to whom I had declared our connection, to Diderot, to Grimm, afterwards to M. d’Epinay, and after another interval to Madam de Luxembourg; and this freely and voluntarily, without being under the least necessity of doing it, having it in my power to conceal the step from all the world; for La Gouin was an honest woman, very discreet, and a person on whom I had the greatest reliance.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But as Endicott glanced right and left along the front he discovered a personage at some little distance with whom it behoved him to hold a parley.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘Payah kun,’ said the Eldest Magician, meaning, ‘That is quite right’; and he breathed upon the great rocks and lumps of earth that All-the-Elephant-there-was had thrown up, and they became the great Himalayan Mountains, and you can look them out on the map.
— from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

He clasped his hands for an instant, glanced right and left into the gloom: “It was like cheating the dead,” he stammered.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

German romance and lyrical poetry teem with allusions to sylphs, gnomes, undines, and salamanders; and the French have not been behind in substituting them, in works of fiction, for the more cumbrous mythology of Greece and Rome.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

They are favourite ornamental plants in British gardens.—In architecture the name is given to a kind of foliage decoration said to have been suggested by this plant, and much employed in Greek, Roman, and later styles.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

The incident, however, seemed to act like the breaking up of the supper party, and the guests rose and left the table, dispersing quickly to look after bag or baggage or some last duty, till only Mrs. Schuyler, Lord Howe, Fritz, and Lieutenant Campbell were left in the supper room.
— from French and English: A Story of the Struggle in America by Evelyn Everett-Green

Here and there, where the ground rose a little, a thin crop of maize, or barley, appeared to have been cultivated; and it was probably some such harvest that I saw being thrashed by the peculiar process in use all through Provence and southern Languedoc.
— from Claret and Olives, from the Garonne to the Rhone Notes, social, picturesque, and legendary, by the way. by Angus B. (Angus Bethune) Reach

'Sir, it is granted,' replied a little, thick-set man with a round face, arch looks, and close-curled wig, surmounted by a small three-cornered hat put very knowingly on one side, not unlike Hogarth's head in his print of the 'Gates of Calais.'
— from Inns and Taverns of Old London by Henry C. (Henry Charles) Shelley

Bishops and abbots were generally regarded as lenient lords in comparison with secular princes, and many preferred to become bondmen of the church rather than of secular lords.
— from A Source Book for Mediæval History Selected Documents illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age by Oliver J. (Oliver Joseph) Thatcher

Strange as it may seem to us that bishops should be great rulers and leaders of armies, it did not strike the people of those days as at all extraordinary or [Pg 73] improper.
— from Our English Towns and Villages by H. R. Wilton Hall

The mighty halls: the candles hang adown from golden roof All lighted, and the torches' flame keeps dusky night aloof.
— from The Æneids of Virgil, Done into English Verse by Virgil

This "stripling" jumped from one side to the other so lightly and unexpectedly, and parried each thrust so surely, that presently the giant relaxed a little from the fury of his onslaught.
— from Robin Hood by Paul Creswick

May 4—Germans repulsed at Locon; French make progress near Locre, and British advance near Meteren; Americans in the Lorraine sector raid German positions south of Halloville and penetrate to third line; French shell disables last of German guns that have been bombarding Paris.
— from Current History, Vol. VIII, No. 3, June 1918 A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times by Various

These two children, of the same household and about the same age, were fifteen years old, when Godwin received a letter from a stranger, begging for information respecting Mary Wollstonecraft’s daughters, and asking especially whether they were educated in accordance with their mother’s educational theories,—an inquiry to which Godwin replied with a statement that Mary Wollstonecraft’s daughters had not been educated in accordance with their mother’s educational notions.
— from The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 2 (of 2) by John Cordy Jeaffreson