The very flesh, it stood Out from the bones, as from a wounded pine The gum starts, where those gnawing poisons fine Bit in the dark—a ghastly sight!
— from Medea of Euripides by Euripides

I had left her alive when I set out for Troy and was moved to tears when I saw her, but even so, for all my sorrow I would not let her come near the blood till I had asked my questions of Teiresias.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

Thus, if I recognize a thing, the occasion of its previous existence in virtue of which I recognize it forms part of "my experience" by DEFINITION: recognition will be one of the marks by which my experience is singled out from the rest of the world.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

These early camps are usually circular in shape, or follow the natural curve of the hill on which they stand.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

The reason of this is, that what is dropt in raises up the fluid at the top, while what is poured on it slides off from the projecting surface.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Thinking therefore that I had escaped from that place, I set out for the house that had been my mother's.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

So on the field a thin insulated wire may be run on improvised stakes or from tree to tree for six or more miles in a couple of hours, and I have seen operators so skillful, that by cutting the wire they would receive a message with their tongues from a distant station.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Quadrupeds again, are even more restricted in wandering over the earth; natural obstacles are continually presenting so many bars to progress in advance: the dry and thirsty desert where no water is; inaccessible snow-capped mountain ridges; the impenetrable screen of forest-trees; the broad lake; the unfordable and rapid river; the impassable line of a sea-girt shore; any of these impediments are enough to keep beasts within an area of no very great range.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 2, August 1852 by Various

[Pg 45] makes an amalgam, which is scraped off from time to time, and the quicksilver is driven from the gold by heat.
— from Diggers in the Earth by Eva March Tappan

The prince lost no time in setting out for the royal palace, and on his way there he met such a wonderfully lovely woman that he felt he had never seen such beauty before in all his life.
— from The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

It is regarded as probable in some old forests that the majority of the roots of trees of the same species are linked up together by such [ 270 ] natural grafts, a probability not diminished by the fact that such roots cross at many points, and are easily grafted.
— from Disease in Plants by H. Marshall (Harry Marshall) Ward

The money was paid next day, with the addition of something else for myself, and that was the best job that I (and I suspect old Fixem too) ever got in that line.
— from Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People by Charles Dickens

And now I struck out for the life-buoy.
— from In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston

After having thus disposed of my property, procured a proper dress for a student who aspired to sacred orders, which consisted of a long cloak and cassock, and after having bid adieu to Don Andrea and my best friends, I set out for the town of Alcala, where I arrived a few days before the opening of the colleges.
— from The Life and Adventures of Guzman D'Alfarache, or the Spanish Rogue, vol. 3/3 by Mateo Alemán

Quite right and proper, as the world goes, but it sounds odd from the lips of one of your mother's girls."
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Certain reports have credited Verdi with living the life of a recluse, whose only companions are two enormous Pyrenean hounds, while days are said to be spent by the master in his studio, which is shut off from the castle, and from which room Verdi is credited with emerging only for the purpose of obtaining sleep.
— from Verdi: Man and Musician His Biography with Especial Reference to His English Experiences by Frederick James Crowest