The merely visible presence of this lad,--for he seems to me little more than a lad, though he is really over twenty,--his merely visible presence,--ah!
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

For during the first games which Augustus, his heir, consecrated to his memory, a comet blazed for seven days together, rising always about eleven o’clock; and it was supposed to be the soul of Caesar, now received into heaven: for which reason, likewise, he is represented on his statue with a star on his brow.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Here the Graces bathed her, and anointed her with oil of ambrosia such as the immortal gods make use of, and they clothed her in raiment of the most enchanting beauty.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

Some find their greatest happiness in friends, in social intercourse; others seek happiness in roving over the earth, always thinking that the greatest enjoyment is in another day, in another place, a little further on, in the next room, or to-morrow, or in another country.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

"I prefer always reading what you like best to hear," said Dorothea, who told the simple truth; for what she dreaded was to exert herself in reading or anything else which left him as joyless as ever.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

But the disgust prevailed—all her instinctive resistances, of taste, of training, of blind inherited scruples, rose against the other feeling.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

7.9. Ἐπουράνιος, ίου, ὁ, ἡ, ( ἐπί & οὐρανός ) heavenly, in respect of locality, Ep. 1.20; Phi. 2.10, et al.; τὰ ἐπουράνια, the upper regions of the air, Ep. 6.12; heavenly, in respect of essence and character, unearthly, 1 Co. 15.48, 49, et al.; met.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Never once did Sobakevitch’s face move a muscle, and, as for Manilov, he was too much under the spell of Chichikov’s eloquence to do aught beyond nod his approval at intervals, and strike the kind of attitude which is assumed by lovers of music when a lady singer has, in rivalry of an accompanying violin, produced a note whereof the shrillness would exceed even the capacity of a bird’s throstle.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Then with Dr. John Pepys and him, I read over the will, and had their advice therein, who, as to the sufficiency thereof confirmed me, and advised me as to the other parts thereof.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

My milliner used to have it read out to her while she was dressing me for that ball I told you about.'
— from The Black Poodle, and Other Tales by F. Anstey

Ancona had its revolution of a few days, for which it is still doing penance in sackcloth and ashes.
— from The Englishwoman in Italy Impressions of life in the Roman states and Sardinia, during a ten years' residence by Gretton, G., Mrs.

Before 1558, he became the owner, by marriage, of a farm at Wilmecote, consisting of fifty-six acres, besides two houses and two gardens; moreover, he held, in right of his wife, a considerable share in a property at Snitterfield.
— from Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson

He raises his in return of salute.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 31, 1891 by Various

It is also to be noted, that they keep Friday as we keep Sunday, and whoever does not go to the temple on their holy-day, is taken and tied to a ladder, and carried about the town from one street to the other, and tied in front of the temple until their prayer is finished; and then they beat him twenty-five times with a rod on the naked body, whether he is rich or poor.
— from The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger, a Native of Bavaria, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1396-1427 by Johannes Schiltberger

Here, at least, was true freedom; here, at least, was ancestral simplicity of life; here the woman held her own on equal terms with the man; here love was unfettered by law or by gold, untrammelled by those hampering inconvenient restraints of parental supervision, society, or priestcraft, which impede its true course in our too complex communities.
— from Linnet: A Romance by Grant Allen

There she knelt and implored the Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph to help her find her darling boy; she felt sure the Divine Mother would sympathize with her, in remembrance of the anxiety she had suffered when the Holy Child was lost for three days.
— from Bolax, Imp or Angel—Which? by Josephine Culpeper

Then a shot and a whinnying moan told him that Carew and his three comrades had edged around the base of the hill into range of the enemy above them.
— from On the Firing Line by Anna Chapin Ray

"I shall need help one day, perhaps," she said to herself, "if Ruth or Guy should be taken first.
— from 'Our Guy' or, The elder brother by Boyd, E. E., Mrs.

And finally, with a half reluctant assent to the course of his own argument, he excludes the poets altogether from his ideal republic, on the ground that they encourage their hearers in that indulgence of emotion which it is the object of every virtuous man to repress.
— from The Greek View of Life by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson