With strain, elevating a candlestick: with pain, feeling on his right temple a contused tumescence: with attention, focussing his gaze on a large dull passive and a slender bright active: with solicitation, bending and downturning the upturned rugfringe: with amusement, remembering Dr Malachi Mulligan’s scheme of colour containing the gradation of green: with pleasure, repeating the words and antecedent act and perceiving through various channels of internal sensibility the consequent and concomitant tepid pleasant diffusion of gradual discolouration.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

At the time fixed all the guests were present except Clodius, for whom they waited, and the host frequently sent the slave who used to invite guests to see if he was coming, but when evening came, and he was now quite despaired of, he said to his slave, "Did you 232 not invite him?"
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Abramka removed his silk hat, stepped into the kitchen, and said gravely, with profound feeling: “Mrs. Zarubkin, I am entirely at your service.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He clasped the goat in his arms, and gently drew away from the gypsy, who pressed closer and closer to him, as though to the only asylum which remained to her.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

It is a similar picture of suffering goodness which Plato desires to pourtray, not without an allusion to the fate of his master Socrates.
— from Gorgias by Plato

But things not always changing equally, and private interest often keeping up customs and privileges, when the reasons of them are ceased, it often comes to pass, that in governments, where part of the legislative consists of representatives chosen by the people, that in tract of time this representation becomes very unequal and disproportionate to the reasons it was at first established upon.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

p. 103 3 Till once, through lanes returning late, Her laughing sisters lagg’d behind; And, ere we reach’d her father’s gate, We paused with one presentient mind;
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

His handsome features glowed with pleasure, and his eyes kept impatiently wandering from the page to a small white hand over his shoulder, which recalled him by a smart slap on the cheek, whenever its owner detected such signs of inattention.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Hierapolis, the gay watering place, the pleasant resort of idlers, had charms for them, as well as Laodicea the busy commercial city.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

These terms, which denoted the fountain of the prophetic God, the Greeks contracted to Νυμφη , a Nymph; and supposed such a person to be an inferior Goddess, who presided over waters.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

Elegiac poetry had been cultivated by several Greek writers, particularly Callimachus, Mimnermus, and Philetas; but, so far as we can find, had, until the present age, been unknown to the Romans in their own tongue.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

"It is a good thing for you that you don't know anything about him, and it reflects credit upon the judgment of the girls who pronounced him horrid," said the Judge.
— from Judge Elbridge by Opie Percival Read

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— from Tinman by Tom Gallon

It did not last long however; for the first galley, without paying the least regard to the flag of peace, or to what was due to a community in religion, bore down upon his brigantine with such fury as nearly to send it to the bottom.
— from The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

If we have been in heavenly places before death, thinking heavenly thoughts, feeling heavenly feelings, and doing heavenly deeds, then we shall be in heavenly places after death; for we shall have with us the Spirit of God, whose presence is heaven; and as long as we are holy, good, pure, unselfish, just, and merciful, we may be persuaded, with St. Paul, that wheresoever we go, all will be well; for ‘neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.’
— from Discipline and Other Sermons by Charles Kingsley

The subsequent success of the Supreme Court in asserting and enforcing its right to annul acts of Congress completed the establishment in this country of a form of government which Professor Burgess correctly describes as an "aristocracy of the robe."
— from The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy by J. Allen (James Allen) Smith

The Government was purely and simply put upon its trial on this, and men publicly discussed whether "they should fight or remain quiet."
— from Les Misérables, v. 4/5: The Idyll and the Epic by Victor Hugo

It was like a pretty girl, who puts on a pair of bone-rimmed spectacles in fun and assumes a studious expression, while the dimples lurk in her cheeks.
— from Nancy of Paradise Cottage by Shirley Watkins