Bharat our foe at length is nigh, And by this hand shall surely die: Brother, I see no sin at all If Bharat by my weapon fall.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

He sat slowly down, blew out his chest, passed his hand caressingly down his beard, and looked with drooping eyelids and supercilious eyes at the crowded hall before him.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

“I don’t want him hurt, somehow,” said Dr. Bull.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

All this were very well, and can't be better; But even this is difficult, Heaven knows, So many troubles from her birth beset her, Such small distinction between friends and foes, The gilding wears so soon from off her fetter, That—but ask any woman if she'd choose (Take her at thirty, that is) to have been Female or male?
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

penumbra half shadow, space dimmed by an eclipse.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

“I am very glad you have come,” he said, sitting down beside her, and obviously wishing to say something, he stuttered.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

As he stooped, his shirt slipped down below his shoulder, and discovered the mark of a bloody arrow.
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

"This is jolly," he said sitting down beside the girl and drawing a deep breath of satisfaction.
— from The Girl on the Boat by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

“Das deutsche Publikum,” he says, “scheint dazu bestimmt zu seyn, nachzuahmen, nachzuurtheilen, nachzuempfinden.”
— from Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer

[133] As to charging legacies on real estate, and observing the rule above laid down, the following is in point: T S, by will, gave his daughter £1,000, to be paid by his executor at her age of twenty-one, or marriage, which should first happen, willing the same to be raised out of the rents and profits of the lands; and further willed, that in case his son should die before the age of twenty-one, or without heirs of his body lawfully begotten, then from and after the death of his son, he gave all his said lands, etc., to the defendant, he making up his daughter’s portion to £2,000; and the daughter died soon after the testator’s death, an infant, unmarried, upon which her mother took out letters of administration and claimed the £2,000; it was decreed that she was not entitled to any part of it, for it appears that the intention of the testator was that it should be for a portion, and it is expressly called a portion in the will; it is no personal legacy, but money to be raised out of the rents and profits of lands, and the payment is expressly to be at twenty-one years, or marriage.
— from The Curiosities and Law of Wills by John Proffatt

Heavenly splendour, Smiling disgrace! Be laid in ruins All I have reared!
— from Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas A Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work by W. J. (William James) Henderson

Meanwhile Aunty Bixby was limping down upon them with all sails set, her stiff silk dress billowing out about her and her little hat set securely on her determined head, while Jimmy puffed along behind her.
— from The Radio Boys' First Wireless; Or, Winning the Ferberton Prize by Allen Chapman

It was a still, clear evening of spring when Wyllard, unstrapping the rücksack from his shoulders, sat down beside a frothing stream in a dale of Northern England.
— from Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Harold Bindloss