Some timber on the bank of the river, for a Short distance back of this timber is a bottom Plain of four or five miles back to the hills and under the hills between them & the river this plain appeared to extend 20 or 30 miles, those Hills have but little timber, and the Plain appears to Continu back of them—I Saw Great quantities of Grapes, Plums, or 2 Kinds wild Cherries of 2 Kinds, Hazelnuts, and Goosberries.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

she murmured:—"This is the end of love!—Yet not the end!"— and frenzy lent her strength as she cast her arm up to heaven: "there is the end!
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

His eyes went lack-lustre, and he lay back on the pillow, pulling the blanket about him and up to his chin.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

H2 anchor CHAPTER XX After Pierre’s departure that first evening, when Natásha had said to Princess Mary with a gaily mocking smile: “He looks just, yes, just as if he had come out of a Russian bath—in a short coat and with his hair cropped,” something hidden and unknown to herself, but
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

He assured us that he would return again the next spring and declare his intentions.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But first, and loudest, to your prince declare (That lawless tyrant whose commands you bear), Unmoved as death Achilles shall remain, Though prostrate Greece shall bleed at every vein: The raging chief in frantic passion lost, Blind to himself, and useless to his host, Unskill'd to judge the future by the past, In blood and slaughter shall repent at last.
— from The Iliad by Homer

From a tender regard to the expiring prejudices of Rome, the Barbarian declined the name, the purple, and the diadem, of the emperors; but he assumed, under the hereditary title of king, the whole substance and plenitude of Imperial prerogative.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Having said this, he ascended up to heaven."
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

“There were several gentlemen who knew my sad history and united to help me.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

But Clytus relates, as Heraclides assures us, that he was attached to a solitary and recluse life.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Milton says, that he does not think any one ever considered him as unbeautiful; that his size rather approaches mediocrity than, the diminutive; that he still felt the same courage and the same strength which he possessed when young, when, with his sword, he felt no difficulty to combat with men more robust than himself; that his face, far from being pale, emaciated, and wrinkled, was sufficiently creditable to him: for though he had passed his fortieth year, he was in all other respects ten years younger.
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli

If you had allowed us to have our own way, there would never have been any trouble.
— from Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation by Thomas Wallace Knox

She looked so helpless and unhappy that he volunteered to lead her to the nearest drug store.
— from The Sherrods by George Barr McCutcheon

So promis’d hee, and Uriel to his charge Returnd on that bright beam, whose point now raisd Bore him slope downward to the Sun now fall’n Beneath th’ Azores ; whither the prime Orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rowl’d Diurnal, or this less volubil Earth By shorter flight to th’ East, had left him there Arraying with reflected Purple and Gold The Clouds that on his Western Throne attend: Now came still Eevning on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober Liverie all things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, They to thir grassie Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas’d: now glow’d the Firmament With living Saphirs: Hesperus that led The starrie Host, rode brightest, till the Moon Rising in clouded Majestie, at length Apparent Queen unvaild her peerless light,
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

His age unfavorable to his work, 86.
— from Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

"The kingdom-soothing general speaks well, for who is this turbulent lord, and what the value of his services, that he dares be so rebellious?" said the Emperor; adding, angrily, "Let the dog be arrested;" when the young prince threw himself before the throne, and said— "Let my illustrious parent not so far forget his royal dignity as to vent his anger upon the honest Woo-san-Kwei, who has saved the kingdom from the Tartars, and offered his counsel only by right of his high rank.
— from The War Tiger Or, Adventures and Wonderful Fortunes of the Young Sea Chief and His Lad Chow: A Tale of the Conquest of China by William Dalton

she would say, patting him affectionately upon the head; and Bert, his mouth literally too full for utterance, would try to look the thanks he could not speak.
— from Bert Lloyd's Boyhood: A Story from Nova Scotia by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley

No! the Bugle sounds no more, And the twanging bow no more; Silent is the ivory shrill Past the heath and up the Hill; There is no mid-forest laugh, Where lone Echo gives the half To some wight amaz’d to hear Jesting, deep in forest drear.
— from Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats

He meant to be grievously surprised and disgusted when the orders came recalling him, and until then his cards had to be carefully played.
— from Marion's Faith. by Charles King

The men mostly slouch a good deal, the result of a lazy, useless life, spent in wanderings up and down the village street, and ceaseless gossip, varied by an occasional expedition with their guns into the country; but the women have a fine upright carriage, owing to their long habitude of balancing heavy articles upon their heads.
— from A Lady's Tour in Corsica, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Gertrude Forde