"One learns nothing from him," he says to Eckermann, "but one becomes something."
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

1 A Spirit haunts the year's last hours Dwelling amid these yellowing bowers: To himself he talks; For at eventide, listening earnestly, At his work you may hear him sob and sigh In the walks; Earthward he boweth the heavy stalks Of the mouldering flowers: Heavily hangs the broad sunflower Over its grave i' the earth so chilly; Heavily hangs the hollyhock, Heavily hangs the tiger-lily.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Hence his style, producing an impression of sublimity, which has been marked for wonder by every historian of our literature.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Somehow it was her head, so shapely and poignant, that revealed her his woman to him.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Then Achilles, fain to kill him, hurled his spear at Asteropaeus, but failed to hit him and struck the steep bank of the river, driving the spear half its length into the earth.
— from The Iliad by Homer

And he, leaning both his hands and chest upon the ground, drank a huge draught from the rifted rock, until, stooping like a beast of the field, he had satisfied his mighty maw.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

Provoked by this conjecture, and enraged at her father, he hastened secretly to the great church.
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

One afternoon he had strolled for several miles along a road that was new to him, and then through a wood on bad advice from a colored woman... losing himself entirely.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

He has struck the Law in the hand of the Representatives.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Thereafter, a celebrity on the river, he spread among his fellow Foulahs and the neighboring Jolofs and Mandingoes his cordial praises of the English nation.[21] And on the Gold Coast there was Amissa to testify to British justice, for he had shipped as a hired sailor on a Liverpool slaver in 1774, had been kidnapped by his employer and sold as a slave in Jamaica, but had been redeemed by the king of Anamaboe and brought home with an award by Lord Mansfield's court in London of £500 damages collected from the slaving captain who had wronged him.[22] The bursting of the South Sea bubble in 1720 shifted the bulk of the separate trading from London to the rival city of Bristol.
— from American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

A priest stood in the open doorway with an inscrutable smile on his lips—the same clean-shaven man with a long aquiline nose and singularly square chin, that he had seen before in his dreams.
— from War and the Weird by Forbes Phillips

After telling them he had stood well in his classes, and giving some descriptions of the closing days and ceremonies of the college, for he knew how interested they would be in reading about these things, he announced that he was not coming home.
— from The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields by James Lane Allen

He had spent twenty years on it, and hoped to complete it in a few more, when the twigs that were to be the beak had grown sufficiently.
— from Gone to Earth by Mary Gladys Meredith Webb

If during those last days she had had any doubt of the love which loyalty to Mary had helped him hide so well, they were all swept away now.
— from Up the Hill and Over by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

"Oh, I'm just goin' to drive round the side of the house," he said; "at the back there's a little knoll where we can stop, and you can see the whole of the barn with the three ways of gittin' into it, one for each story."
— from The Girl at Cobhurst by Frank Richard Stockton

Still, he had such a manner of showing bright white teeth in a jocund grin, and of making his frizzly hair stand up, and his sharp blue eyes express amazement, at the proper moment; moreover, his pair of cheeks was such (after coming off the downs), and his laugh so dreadfully infectious, and he had such tales to tell—that several lofty butlers were persuaded to consider him.
— from Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

And yet he was only a human man; and, in spite of his quick sympathy for her unknown trouble, he paused for a moment to gaze at her admiringly, as she stood there with her long, light gown sweeping about her feet, and one hand stretched out to welcome him, while in the other she still held the great white rose that she had taken from the bunch he had sent her.
— from In Blue Creek Cañon by Anna Chapin Ray

During his stay in Paris Bernadotte evinced for me the same sentiments of friendship which he had shown me at Hamburg.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various