He endured both being struck and insulted without a word, though he was in his own house; but when the will of Aegis-bearing Jove inspired him, he and Telemachus took the armour and hid it in an inner chamber, bolting the doors behind them.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

If it should turn out that he was freed from all danger of disgrace—if he could breathe in perfect liberty—his life should be more consecrated than it had ever been before.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Good grades of Costa Rican coffee, such as are grown in the Cartago, San José, Alajuela, and Grecia districts at high altitudes, are highly esteemed by blenders.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

As the genius of Robert expanded with his fortune, he awakened the jealousy of his elder brother, by whom, in a transient quarrel, his life was threatened and his liberty restrained.
— 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

A greenish pallor spread over the count’s cheeks, and his eyes became bloodshot at these terrible imputations, which were listened to by the assembly with ominous silence.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before been anything against him.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Further: Just, in the way of metaphor and similitude, there may be I do not say between a man and himself exactly but between certain parts of his nature; but not Just of every kind, only such as belongs to the relation of master and slave, or to that of the head of a family.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

This confusion of my thoughts kept me awake all night; but in the morning I fell asleep; and having, by the amusement of my mind, been as it were tired, and my spirits exhausted, I slept very soundly, and waked much better composed than I had ever been before.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

] HERBOMEZ (D'), brother of the foregoing, but more fortunate, he ended by becoming a count and receiver-general.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

But no record of their opinion has ever been brought to light.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

"Forgive the question, but every lover likes to know, or think, that no one has ever been before him in the affection of the woman he loves."
— from The Silent Shore: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

Neither single, nor married, can she subsist with comfort to herself, except by being largely endowed with self-dependence.
— from The Young Maiden by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey

Tom was unconscious almost all the time, his eyes burning bright, his cheeks flushed, his lips ever and anon muttering and babbling of things incomprehensible to Mbutu.
— from Tom Burnaby: A Story of Uganda and the Great Congo Forest by Herbert Strang

Up to the commencement of the now inevitable destruction of the Red Indians of Central North America, of the Maories, and of the Australians by the English colonists, no numerous race had ever been blotted out by an invader.
— from Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866-7 by Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir

Among the State capitals Boston alone had the needed historical eminence, but, besides the obvious drawback of its situation, its capacity and its commissariat resources, except for a host of disembodied intellects, must prove insufficient.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 by Various

It consists of a cylinder A, formed of iron plate with hemispherical ends B. B. set horizontally in brick work C.
— from Maxims and Instructions for the Boiler Room Useful to Engineers, Firemen & Mechanics; Relating to Steam Generators, Pumps, Appliances, Steam Heating, Practical Plumbing, etc. by N. (Nehemiah) Hawkins

But the English were not a patient people, and the problem of the reorganization of society had become a very serious one towards the close of the Middle Ages, and was perhaps more urgent to men’s fears and consciences in the fifteenth century than it had ever been before, or was to be again till our own day.
— from Town Life in the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1 (of 2) by Alice Stopford Green

After that a drumming of hoofs and a hoarse cry broke upon her ears, but both were drowned and lost in a deafening crash of thunder.
— from A Prairie Courtship by Harold Bindloss

—No vessel has ever been built that exceeded the Great Eastern in size.
— from Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 by Various