When the dawn came she was haggard and tired; and she got up listlessly, combed her hair, and washed her face, and dragged away the pieces of furniture that had formed the barricade at the door.
— from 'Drag' Harlan by Charles Alden Seltzer

Decorum est foeminam in Germania nata [sic] discere Gallice, ut loquatur cum his qui sciunt Gallice; cur igitur habetur indecorum discere Latine, ut quotidie confabuletur cum tot autoribus tam facundis, tam eruditis, tam sapientibus, tam fides consultoribus.
— from Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) by Lewis Melville

The curiosity of the Middle Ages was great; their literary faculty, though somewhat incult and infantine, was great likewise: and there were such enormous gaps in their positive knowledge that the sharp sense of division between the certain, the uncertain, and the demonstrably false, which has grown up later, could hardly exist.
— from The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury

If giving up life could have made one gain Krishna, I could have sacrificed my life a million times over in a moment.
— from Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmi

In the centre stood, skeleton-like, the inevitable unfinished church, its narrow gables uplifted like clamorous hands to heaven in an apparently vain appeal for funds.
— from Lodges in the Wilderness by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

On the left the 24th Punjaub Infantry, with the two remaining guns under Lieutenant Climo, held the approaches from the abandoned north camp and the fort.
— from The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War by Winston Churchill

He got up late, cut his chin while shaving, kicked a slipper into his sponge bath and said, "Desh!"
— from Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells