But as soon as it was found that Shakespeare’s house had passed into foreign hands and was going to be carried across the ocean, England was stirred as no appeal from the custodians of the relic had ever stirred England before, and protests came flowing in—and money, too, to stop the outrage.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

But he enjoyed spectacular effects, and was not insensible to the part money plays in their production: all he asked was that the very rich should live up to their calling as stage-managers, and not spend their money in a dull way.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Thus while he speaks the ruddy sun descends, And twilight grey her evening shade extends.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

I had expected some extravagant proposition, and remained silent awhile, collecting my thoughts that I might the better combat her fanciful scheme.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

But the laws which Severus had enacted soon expired with the authority of that emperor; and the Christians, after this accidental tempest, enjoyed a calm of thirty-eight years.
— 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

He first of all set boundaries about lands: he built a city, and fortified it with walls, and he compelled his family to come together to it; and called that city Enoch, after the name of his eldest son Enoch.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

These pagodas, which still tower above the city of Tsuen-cheu-fu, have ever since exercised the happiest influence over its destiny by intercepting the imaginary net before it could descend and entangle in its meshes the imaginary carp.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

[Jealousies of a Country Town.] RESTAUD (Comte de), a man whose sad life was first brought to the notice of Barchou de Penhoen, a school-mate of Dufaure and Lambert; born about 1780; husband of Anastasie Goriot, by whom he was ruined; died in December, 1824, while trying to adjust matters favorably for his eldest son, Ernest, the only one of Madame de Restaud's three children whom he recognized as his own.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

He had caught a salmon, and was sitting on the bank of the river with his eyes shut eating it, when Loki killed him with a stone.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

Another method is as follows:— Take parings of nails, hair, eyebrows, saliva, etc. of your intended victim (sufficient to represent every part of his person), and make them up into his likeness with wax from a deserted bees’ comb.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Wandering now from port to port in quest of a man-of-war, he experienced some extraordinary turns of fortune.
— from History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

The writer confesses to have experienced some embarrassment in writing this story.
— from Sam's Chance, and How He Improved It by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

—Manufacturers of plates and films will direct efforts toward producing emulsions of good contrast, high color sensitiveness and high effective speed, especially when used in conjunction with the filters necessary for haze penetration.
— from Airplane Photography by Herbert Eugene Ives

My companion listened to me with a kind of blank surprise, evidently unaccustomed to the honesty of truth; but she bore my remarks patiently, and when I had ended, she even thanked me for my advice.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIII.—April, 1852.—Vol. IV. None by Various

In his fiery nature lay an impulse that he could not resist, to put forth his exuberant strength even to excess, to venture whatever was most hazardous, and to attempt even the impossible.
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

I have explained sufficiently elsewhere that our control over volitions can be exercised only indirectly, and that one would be unhappy if one were sufficiently master in one's own domain to be able to will without cause, without rhyme or reason.
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von

His voice failed, and as he raised his earnest, searching eyes to her face, the last words came in a hoarse whisper, “Oh, is it enough for me to dare offer you that alone?”
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, June 1885 by Various

Lord Cairnforth turned upon him eyes sharp enough to make a less acute person than the captain feel that honesty, rather than flattery, was the safest tack to go upon.
— from A Noble Life by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik