3784 Burnouf has concluded, from a cuneiform inscription which he deciphered, that the name of this people was Ayurâ, and that Hardouin is wrong in conjecturing that it was a name derived from the Greek ὄρος , “a mountain,” and designating the people as a mountain tribe.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Then would he cackle forth a feeble laugh and express a doubt whether his wits—for by that phrase it pleased our ancient friend to signify his mental powers—were not getting a little the worse for wear.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Then again the consequences of his confession flashed before him, and rendered him once more irresolute.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

In some parts of Bavaria such bushes are set up also at the houses of newly-married pairs, and the practice is only omitted if the wife is near her confinement; for in that case they say that the husband has “set up a May-bush for himself.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Emilia enlivened our solitude by her company, for several weeks during the summer, and we had many pleasant excursions on the water together.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

The Aretine : Griffolino, who boasted he could fly; already represented as trembling ( Inf. xxix. 97).
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

This time, in the " leave me " there was an intonation so bitter and so imperative, I wondered that even Madame Beck herself could for one moment delay obedience; but she stood firm; she gazed upon him dauntless; she met his eye, forbidding and fixed as stone.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Liputin blamed him severely afterwards for having accepted the hundred roubles and having even gone to thank Varvara Petrovna for them, instead of having returned the money with contempt, because it had come from his former despotic mistress.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

His choice fell upon Demosthenes because he heard that he was contemplating a descent on the island; the soldiers distressed by the difficulties of the position, and rather besieged than besiegers, being eager to fight it out, while the firing of the island had increased the confidence of the general.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Oh, he can flatter with his tongue, Can toady to the rich and great, Can fawn on those he feels to hate, Until from out his nature's wrung Each shred of honesty and zeal, Each impulse independent, strong, Till truth and honor's but a song, And naught is beautiful or real.
— from The Cornflower, and Other Poems by Jean Blewett

The tramp had been shot fairly through the head, and he had died holding in one of his clenched fists a deadly bomb, which, but for the presence of mind and quickness of action of the despised recruit, would have sent every soul on the train into eternity.
— from Bamboo Tales by Ira L. (Ira Louis) Reeves

He had been a member of the Parliament at Frankfort, and had taken a leading part among the extreme Conservatives; a Roman Catholic, he had come forward in defence of religion and order against the Liberals and Republicans; a very eloquent speaker, by his earnestness and eloquence he was able for a short time to give new life to the failing hopes of the German patriots.
— from Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire by James Wycliffe Headlam

“To continue,” said the doctor: “I say a boy’s a boy, and I don’t care whose he is, or where he came from; he is so much plastic clay, and you can make of him what you please.”
— from Quicksilver: The Boy With No Skid to His Wheel by George Manville Fenn

Perhaps Jos was rather pleased in his heart that Osborne was gone, for during George's presence, the other had played but a very secondary part in the household, and Osborne did not scruple to show his contempt for the stout civilian.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Little as anyone sympathised with him in the course he had followed, there was a feeling of resentment against his companion for having obviously taken a mean advantage over the man who had thrown in his lot with him.
— from The Rider of Waroona by G. Firth Scott

Suddenly, on his reappearance, since he for some unknown reason wore the look of a man whose fortunes might have changed for the better, there were those among whom the tide took a turn somewhat in Sir John's favour.
— from His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Suddenly, with a last effort, he half rose, stretched his clinched fist at Hatteras, who was gazing steadily at him, uttered a heart-rending cry, and fell back dead in the midst of his unfinished threat.
— from The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne

"But he has more gall than I gave him credit for.
— from The Daffodil Mystery by Edgar Wallace

He admired Christina very much; she suited him; if Dolly should prove after all obdurate, here was his chance for making himself amends.
— from The End of a Coil by Susan Warner