Pallas, taking compassion, bore her up as she hung; and thus she said: “Live on indeed, wicked one, 29 but still hang; and let the same decree of punishment be pronounced against thy race, and against thy latest posterity, that thou mayst not be free from care in time to come.”
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

He worked himself up slowly and gradually into a sort of frenzy, and got to thrashing around with his arms like the sails of a windmill.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

We had two captains on board of our ship who came away in the hurry and left their ships to follow.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence.
— from The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

So to Sir G. Carteret’s again to talk with him about Balty’s money, and wrote a letter to Portsmouth about part of it, and then in his coach, with his little daughter Porpot (as he used to nickname her), and saw her at home, and her maid, and another little gentlewoman, and so I walked into Moore Fields, and, as is said, did find houses built two stories high, and like to stand; and it must become a place of great trade, till the City be built; and the street is already paved as London streets used to be, which is a strange, and to mean unpleasing sight.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He felt a certain religious horror at letting that shadow enter Cosette’s thought; and of placing a third in their destiny.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

He loved money, but he also loved to spend it in gratifying his peculiar tastes, and perhaps he loved it best of all as a means of making others feel his power more or less uncomfortably.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Be this as it may, whatever he says such things will he also listen to, since it is commonly held that a man will do what he will bear to hear: this must, however, be limited; a man will not do quite all that he will hear: because jesting is a species of scurrility and there are some points of scurrility forbidden by law; it may be certain points of jesting should have been also so forbidden.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

The idea flashed through his mind that their labourer had gone away long before and had asked leave to stay the night at home in the village; the day before they had killed a pig, and there were huge bloodstains in the snow and on the sledge, and even one side of the top of the well was splattered with blood, so that it could not have seemed suspicious even if the whole of Yakov’s family had been stained with blood.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Isn't it odd that ever since I was born I have had a longing to see my father in trunk-hose?"
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

This word has at least three senses.
— from Railway Rates: English and Foreign by James Grierson

I have a little the sensation of being always at church.
— from A Rainy June, and Other Stories by Ouida

In Jan. 1527/8 he held some office, being then ‘in London on the business of his house’ and likely to stay there some months
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little

He assured her, with a certain melancholy, that he was not solicitous about her, as he well knew that even if there were no obstacles she certainly would not have him, but that he was anxious that his future life-companion should resemble her a little; that she should have the same look and the same magnetic strength to which, if he did not succumb it would be a miracle.
— from Whirlpools: A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

" "Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow; let his children be continually vagabonds and beg; let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places; let the extortioner catch all that he hath, and let the stranger spoil his labor; let there be none to extend mercy unto him, neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

This is his advice: 'Leave the Southland, however beautiful it may be.
— from A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Felix Dahn

t twelve men will not be less likely to think me a bigamist because she has expressed her readiness to commit bigamy; that, if alone, she would not have a leg to stand upon, but that she is amply corroborated; whereas I have not been able to find a single witness to support me.
— from John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope

Accustomed to retire to this quiet and homely room, which was not his official study where he was always liable to the attacks of secretaries, Lord Valleys had come up here after lunch to smoke and chew the cud of a worry.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Screaming with horror, she leaped up and ran to the edge of the island, where, after hunting a long time, she found a boat, in which she paddled across to the Indian village.
— from The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman

Let me have a line to say if you will keep the appointment, and if the hour named will suit you.
— from My Lady's Money by Wilkie Collins