"Yet I could lie and listen With a cross upon my clay, And hear unhurt for ever What the trees of Britain say.
— from The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

And even of what he knew, how much could he make his untravelled friend either apprehend or believe?
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

He then passed over to the land of the Ammonites, and overthrew many of their cities, and took their prey, and freed his own people from that slavery which they had undergone for eighteen years.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Perhaps one of the most moving descriptions of it is to be found in the life of Spinoza, the great philosopher whom modern Jews are fond of holding up for exhibition as a great ornament of their people.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

Marry, hang her up for ever!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

4 His unworthy favorites, enriched by the boundless liberality of their master, usurped with impunity the privilege of rapine and corruption.
— 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

Any one shutting himself up from exposure may be exempted from this obligation to take a bath.”
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

But in the great majority of cases, namely, with all organisms which habitually unite for each birth, or which occasionally intercross, the individuals of the same species inhabiting the same area will be kept nearly uniform by intercrossing; so that many individuals will go on simultaneously changing, and the whole amount of modification at each stage will not be due to descent from a single parent.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

These effigies were hung at the doors of all the houses in Rome; one effigy was hung up for every free person in the house, and one effigy, of a different kind, for every slave.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

For I did not expect anything grand or magnificent from Chrysippus, who, after his usual fashion, examines everything rather by the signification of words than the reality of things.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Her unfair treacherous ways made her unprepossessing features even more ugly in their girlish eyes.
— from Marjorie Dean, Marvelous Manager by Josephine Chase

eople were so grateful to Davy Crockett for his part in it that they put him up for election to Congress.
— from Hero Tales from History by Smith Burnham

This artifice, he felt sure, served to disarm possible suspicion on the part of any one of the persons who came hurrying up from east and west and from the north, across the street.
— from From Place to Place by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

sais I, trying to cheer her up; "for ever is a most thundering long word.
— from Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Church lordships, the easiest to trace, appear to have retained their hidation unchanged from early times, and the 'possessio decem familiarum' of Bede seems to carry the decimal system back to very early days.
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round

He thinks it can never hurt him to have us for enemies; that in the worst case we shall quietly await his attack in Italy; that Byzantium will always be able to choose the moment, repeating it until successful.
— from A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Felix Dahn

Never shall I forget how the soldier lad held his baby in his arms, and looked at it with infinite tenderness and wonder; while his wife, who had believed him dead, clung to him, uttering fond, endearing terms all the while.
— from The Passion for Life by Joseph Hocking

The penguins are a black, heavy, unwieldy fowl, extremely fat, covered with a sort of down instead of feathers, and having a bill like that of a raven; drawing their entire subsistence from the sea, as fish is their only food.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. by Robert Kerr

Then in turn it was relayed along from hand to hand, until finally either Brad or Fred received it.
— from Fred Fenton on the Crew; Or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School by Allen Chapman