Morris's interest in Icelandic literature is further shown by his Sigurd the Volsung , an epic founded upon one of the old sagas, and by his prose romances, The House of the Wolfings, The Story of the Glittering Plain , and The Roots of the Mountains .
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

As I anticipated, we had passed right through the precipice, and were now on the farther side, and immediately beneath its beetling face.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

My brother, Jyotirindra, was engaged the live-long day at his piano, refashioning the classic melodic forms at his pleasure.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

Then, having made her confession and gotten her penance, recalling the friar's exhortations to works of almsgiving, she stealthily filled his hand with money, praying him to say masses for the souls of her dead kinsfolk; after which she rose from his feet and taking leave of him, returned home.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

The imperial consort has, it is true, an exalted preference for economy and frugality, but her present honourable position requires the observance of such courtesies, so that (finery) is no fault."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

While the troops of the provinces disclaimed the commands of their superiors, a conspiracy was formed at Carthage against the life of Solomon, who filled with honor the place of Belisarius; and the Arians had piously resolved to sacrifice the tyrant at the foot of the altar, during the awful mysteries of the festival of Easter.
— 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

To save her from further persecution her parents resolved to remove their daughter from the city.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

[232] But at the same time, these ancestors are represented in the myths as themselves belonging to clans which had perfectly regular totems, that is to say, ones taken from the animal or vegetable kingdoms.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

This new portent the seer with wonder views, Then pausing, thus his prophecy renews: “The nymph, who scatters flaming fires around, Shall shine with honour, shall herself be crown’d;
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

And looking up to Will as I did, it seemed his plain right that he should walk with the beautiful Donna Rusidda and I with the Prince, lagging bravely.
— from The Admiral: A Romance of Nelson in the Year of the Nile by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen

At a much later point Manessier tells how Perceval, riding through the forest, is overtaken by a terrible storm.
— from From Ritual to Romance by Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston

Lord Mar writes that the queen, forgetful of her promises, refuses to receive me, and that if I should present myself at Saint James's Palace, he will not answer for my safety.
— from Preston Fight; or, The Insurrection of 1715 by William Harrison Ainsworth

She has excluded our ships-of-war from her ports, refusing to allow them to coal at places at which she had granted us the privilege, in time of peace, of establishing stations for fuel!
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Hardly had Peter reached the dear Old Briar-patch when Reddy Fox reached the fence where Bob White was sitting.
— from The Adventures of Bob White by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

There was but one course which Burr, in honor, could take; he should have peremptorily refused to permit his name to be used.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

At first the evolutions of the stout man had escaped Mr. Weller’s observation, but by degrees, as he saw Mr. Pickwick’s eyes every now and then turning towards him, he began to gaze in the same direction, at the same time shading his eyes with his hand, as if he partially recognised the object before him, and wished to make quite sure of its identity.
— from The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 1 (of 2) by Charles Dickens

For some months after his quarrel with the inhabitants of Rognes, the Abbé Godard had persistently refused to set foot in the village.
— from The Soil (La terre): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola

The author of 'The Robbers' was acquainted with Robin Hood, and he had probably read 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona', in which the banished Valentine becomes the captain of a band of outlaws on condition that they "do no outrages on silly women or poor passengers", and the outlaws reply that they "detest such vile, base practices."[24]
— from The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas