(13 lines) 2607 (ll. 1-7) Let us betake us to the house of some man of great power,—one who bears great power and is greatly prosperous always.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

You may often see the wicked in great prosperity and the righteous afflicted by the will of heaven.
— from The Republic by Plato

We took this in good part, and proceeded.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

“A fine thing, indeed!” grunted Porthos.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

The affirmative answer to this question was strongly supported in Greek philosophical discussion: but it is a paradox from which a modern thinker would recoil: he would hardly venture to assert that the portion of life spent by a martyr in tortures was in itself
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

I grew perfectly sober in an instant.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

to Louis XV., the evil has increased in geometrical progression.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

This formula roughly expresses the phenomena, it is true, but cannot possibly be an elementary psychic law; and it is certain that, in great part at least, the foreshortening of the years as we grow older is due to the monotony of memory's content, and the consequent simplification of the backward-glancing view.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

King Louis is not without hope: in the chapter of chances; in a flight to some Bouille; in getting popularized at Paris.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

In short, our hero, by his affability and engaging deportment, immediately gained possession of Sir Stentor's good graces, insomuch, that he desired to crack a bottle with him in the evening, and they repaired to an auberge, whither his fellow-knight accompanied him, not without manifest signs of reluctance.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

He took care to say advice, which a Scotchman is generally prepared to bestow of his best.
— from David Elginbrod by George MacDonald

For the benefit of readers voracious for everything about everybody, schedule chapters might be provided by inferior novelists, good at painting say tiresome bourgeois fathers, gouty uncles and brothers in the army, as sometimes in great pictures we read that the sheep in the foreground have been painted by Mr. So-and-so, R.A.
— from The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance by Richard Le Gallienne

An affected look of knowingness, an insincere grin, passes from one face to another, and occasionally, when some one who really understands the matter gives a bold and loud rap with his stick,—believing that there must now certainly be something very fine, they very innocently break into a long paroxysm of applause, and they repeat this as often as the courageous fellow with the stick chooses to give them the signal, each secretly thinking how devilish stupid he must be not really to enjoy what everybody else is so highly delighted with.
— from The Harmonicon. Part the First by Various

“To tell the truth, Miss Finnock,” I said, hoping to take her out of her depth and thereby change the subject, “I greatly prefer the old classic writers, or even the earlier English poets, to the maudlin sentimentalists of the present day.”
— from Sea-gift: A Novel by Edwin W. (Edwin Wiley) Fuller

(1) Tachyris ilaire , Godart, Plate XXXV, Fig.
— from The Butterfly Book A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North America by W. J. (William Jacob) Holland

Few flowers were there: some white orchids; the green, rank arum with its bitter root; and the pale, dejected Indian pipe, the corpse-plant, smoked in ghostly pow-wows by Indians long since dead.
— from Jean Baptiste: A Story of French Canada by James Edward Le Rossignol

Then, you will remember, you were in great pain because of the heterodoxy of George Holland.
— from Phyllis of Philistia by Frank Frankfort Moore

From these ovaries arises the next egg, A' , with its germ plasm.
— from The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by H. W. (Herbert William) Conn