And truly not the morning sun of heaven Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east, Nor that full star that ushers in the even, Doth half that glory to the sober west, As those two mourning eyes become thy face: O!
— from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare

As long as Phoebus bore unmoved the shield, Sat doubtful conquest hovering o'er the field; But when aloft he shakes it in the skies, Shouts in their ears, and lightens in their eyes, Deep horror seizes every Grecian breast, Their force is humbled, and their fear confess'd.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Mr. Oates was nearly connected with the family of President Russell, but curiously obtained no share in the broad acres which were, in the early day, so plentifully distributed to all comers.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

If this explanation does not serve we may make use finally of a curious phenomenon, called by Lazarus heroification , which repeats itself at various levels of life in rather younger people.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Haydon was accustomed, in the early days of his fitful career, to dine here with Wilkie.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The same cruelty appears in æsthetic pleasures, in lust, war, and ambition; in the illusions of desire and memory; in the unsympathetic quality of theory everywhere, which regards the uniformities of cause and effect and the beauties of law as a justification for the inherent evils in the experience described; in the unjust judgments, finally, of mystical optimism, that sinks so completely into its subjective commotion as to mistake the suspension of all discriminating and representative faculties for a true union in things, and the blur of its own ecstasy for a universal glory.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

It is insinuated that Eutropius despatched a private order for his secret execution.
— 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

8 In the early days of the fighting they used to hurrah a good deal, and shout “ Viva la Independencia ” (Live Independence).
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Governor Oglesby, who had meanwhile accumulated a voluminous mass of letters and had received lengthy petitions from Chicago and all other parts of the country, even from the Commune of Paris, met the various delegations in his office in the Executive Department.
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack

To dress, and to talking and thinking about it, the Englishwoman devotes unconscionable hours.
— from The Egregious English by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland

In the executive department they have dictated all appointments, from a letter-carrier to an ambassador; an amusing illustration of which I find in my recent correspondence.
— from A Visit to the United States in 1841 by Joseph Sturge

Nevertheless, when she found herself buried in the earthy darkness as she crawled at her companion’s heels, she could not feel free from an inclination to turn back there and then.
— from Golden Face: A Tale of the Wild West by Bertram Mitford

Whatsoever my freindis have bene, yitt, unto this day, hes no man caus to complaine upoun me, nether yitt am I mynded to flatter any of my freindis in thare evill doing; but by Goddis grace shalbe as fordwarte to correct thare enormities, as any within the realme cane reassonablie requyre of me.
— from The Works of John Knox, Volume 1 (of 6) by John Knox

Their leader in the earlier days of opposition to Tractarianism was Dr. Arnold of [Pg 158] Rugby.
— from The Age of Tennyson by Hugh Walker

Through this the sunlight streams upon an old grandfather's clock, which has steadily ticked off the hours since placed there in the early days when the house was first furnished.
— from Historic Homes of New England by Mary Harrod Northend

18 How awfully inconceivable is that eternal death that never dieth; that final end that never endeth—an immortal death—a soul-murdering life—ever dying, but never dead; were the mountains and rocks to fall upon and and crush them, still eternity would intervene between them and death.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Failed, owing to the very ingenious though elaborate defence of the vessel, carried out under the directions of Commodore Rodgers.
— from Torpedoes and Torpedo Warfare Containing a Complete and Concise Account of the Rise and Progress of Submarine Warfare by Charles William Sleeman