You, whom I remember when you were strong and rosy, a handsome gentlemen, when lords flattered you, when women went mad over you!
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

A great, wild lake, filled with stagnant, black water, in which thousands of reeds were waving to and fro, lay in the midst of a vast circle of naked hills, where nothing grew but broom, or here and there an oak curiously twisted by the wind.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

586 Ráma and Lakshmaṇ nearer drew The mighty fallen foe to view, Mahendra's son, the brave and bold, The monarch with his chain of gold, With lustrous face and tawny eyes, Broad chest, and arms of wondrous size, Like Lord Mahendra fierce in fight, Or Vishṇu's never-conquered might, Now fallen like Yayáti 587 sent From heaven, his store of merit spent, Like the bright flame that pales and dies, Like the great sun who fires the skies, Doomed in the general doom to fall When time shall end and ruin all.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

In spite of the ice cream her grateful baby heart glowed with love for the fairy grandfather.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

The steam ploughs had, however, kept the railroad open, and the evening train which connects the long line of coal-mining and iron-working settlements was slowly groaning its way up the steep gradients which lead from Stagville on the plain to Vermissa, the central township which lies at the head of Vermissa Valley.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

The hall was vast and gloomy, which latter fact made it appear still more spacious.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

“What’s that got to do with it?” asked the general, who loathed Ferdishenko.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Beside her, on a tapestried stool, a young girl, with long fair hair hanging in braids down her back, was embroidering an altar-cloth.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The good man has absolute good, which like fire turns everything to its own nature, so that you cannot do him any harm; but as the royal armies sent against Napoleon, when he approached, cast down their colors [70] and from enemies became friends, so disasters of all kinds, as sickness, offense, poverty, prove benefactors:— "Winds blow and waters roll Strength to the brave, and power and deity, Yet in themselves are nothing."
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unhappily the beneficent reform stopped half-way, and here Germany was less fortunate than France.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 18 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

The usual, and indeed the proper, way of dealing with this mountain is to traverse it from north to south, ending up at Llanuwchllyn station, on the Great Western line from Bala to Dolgelly.
— from Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. 2 - Wales and Ireland by W. P. (Walter Parry) Haskett Smith

The Irene and Grief were less fortunate.
— from The Invasion of 1910, with a full account of the siege of London by William Le Queux

[75] The most important of these studies have been collected in the great work Les Fourmis de la Suisse (Nouveaux mémoires de la Société helvétique des Sciences naturelles, vol.
— from The Forerunners by Romain Rolland

But a step on the road startled her, and raising her head she saw 'Old Father Time,' with scythe on shoulder, leaning on the little gate which led from the strip of garden to the road, and looking at her with the expression which implied a sarcastic view of things in general, and especially of 'gentlefolk.'
— from Missing by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

There was a sound of axes hewing down the gate which led from the garden into the street behind.
— from In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

When the animal is at rest, the gauze wings lie folded up under this impenetrable shield.
— from The Reason Why A Careful Collection of Many Hundreds of Reasons for Things Which, Though Generally Believed, Are Imperfectly Understood by Robert Kemp Philp

I could, if I had had time to spare, have gone on, starting objections and answering them, in my own breast, a great while longer (for I now knew not what to make of it); but being prompted to act as well as think, and feeling, as tenderly as possible, upon her bosom, for the folds or plaits of her garment, she lying perfectly still, and perceiving divers flat broad ledges, like whale-bone, seemingly under her covering, which closely enfolded her body, I thought it might be all laced on together somewhat like stays, and felt behind for the lacing.
— from The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, Complete (Volumes 1 and 2) by Robert Paltock

A close game was looked for, with the chances favoring the Giants.
— from Baseball Joe, Home Run King; or, The Greatest Pitcher and Batter on Record by Lester Chadwick