MARTHA Had he all love, all faith forgotten in his riot?
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the year 1316, Edward II. did solemnize his feast of Penticost at Westminster, in the great hall; where sitting royally at the table, with his peers about him, there entered a woman adorned like a minstrel, sitting on a great horse, trapped as minstrels then used, who rode round about the tables, showing pastime, and at length came up to the king’s table, and laid before him a letter, and forthwith turning her horse, saluted every one, and departed.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

If you want to find your way into the host of the Trojans, there are the Thracians, who have lately come here and lie apart from the others at the far end of the camp; and they have Rhesus son of Eioneus for their king.
— from The Iliad by Homer

— —“O Zarathustra,” said then his animals, “to those who think like us, things all dance themselves: they come and hold out the hand and laugh and flee—and return.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He hadn't sown his wild oats as yet, but he would soon: and quit the army now that peace was proclaimed; the Corsican monster locked up at Elba; promotion by consequence over; and no chance left for the display of his undoubted military talents and valour: and his allowance, with Amelia's settlement, would enable them to take a snug place in the country somewhere, in a good sporting neighbourhood; and he would hunt a little, and farm a little; and they would be very happy.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

He put on his hat and looked around for his umbrella.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Meg sat upon her cushion, sewing daintily with her white hands, and looking as fresh and sweet as a rose in her pink dress among the green.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Blum respectfully made her a deep bow without speaking and, doubled up with veneration, moved towards the door on tiptoe with his arms held a little away from him.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"But neither she nor her seed shall have a long authority; for she and they that brought her, and her children, and her friends, shall be delivered to death."
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

These rags in bales, of all hues and qualities, the lowest condition to which cotton and linen descend, the final result of dress—of patterns which are now no longer cried up, unless it be in Milwaukee, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, etc., gathered from all quarters both of fashion and poverty, going to become paper of one color or a few shades only, on which, forsooth, will be written tales of real life, high and low, and founded on fact!
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

He acquired Luxemburg a few years later.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley

Viesseux's is a place where sooner or later you meet every one you know among the foreign residents at Florence; the natives in smaller proportion resort there too; and Colville heard a lady asking for a book in that perfect Italian which strikes envy to the heart of the stranger sufficiently versed in the language to know that he never shall master it.
— from Indian Summer by William Dean Howells

But from Bruxelles, knowing how the Lady Castlewood always liked to have a letter about the famous 29th of December, my lord writ her a long and full one, and in this he must have described the affair with Mohun; for when Mr. Esmond came to visit his mistress one day, early in the new year, to his great wonderment, she and her daughter both came up and saluted him, and after them the dowager of Chelsea, too, whose chairman had just brought her [pg 303] ladyship from her village to Kensington across the fields.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

"Monsieur," said he, at last, "at first I took you for a madman; but now I remember that the newspapers have contained some scraps of your history, and I see that you are the victim of a mistake.
— from The Man With The Broken Ear by Edmond About

The children were grown and married now, and Lyddy was nearly forty when she came into possession of house and lands and fortune; forty, with twenty years of unexpended feeling pent within her.
— from The Village Watch-Tower by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

[lifting him in his arms like a father carrying a little boy].
— from Great Catherine (Whom Glory Still Adores) by Bernard Shaw

"I'll come out all right, though I shall tantalize him a little at first."
— from Dan, the Newsboy by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

She hesitated and looked away from him.
— from Autres Temps... 1916 by Edith Wharton

Where the commercials are gathered together the tap is good,” he added, laying a finger against the side of his nose.
— from The Burning Spear: Being the Experiences of Mr. John Lavender in the Time of War by John Galsworthy