Then the king and all the court and fellowship of knights went back to the palace, and so to evensong in the great minster, a royal and goodly company, and after that sat down to supper in the hall, every knight in his own seat, as they had been before.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

The economic valuation of all the ideals that have existed hitherto—that is to say, the selection and rearing of definite passions and states at the cost of other passions and states.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

At the entrance to the Arbát Square an immense expanse of dark starry sky presented itself to his eyes.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Yet the instant that his eyes beheld Madame Odintsov returning his heart leapt within him.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Reward of ingratitoode to his earliest benefactor, and founder of fortun's .
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Our landlady perceiving its progress, became furious, and her brutality forwarded my affair with the young girl, who, having no person in the house except myself to give her the least support, was sorry to see me go from home, and sighed for the return of her protector.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Any record of the prose literature of the Victorian era, which includes the historical essays of Macaulay and the art criticism of Ruskin, should contain also some notice of its spiritual leaders.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

At these sermons, so severally preached, the mayor, with his brethren the aldermen, were accustomed to be present in their violets at Paules on Good Friday, and in their scarlets at the Spittle in the holidays, except Wednesday in violet, and the mayor with his brethren on Low Sunday in scarlet, at Paules cross, continued until this day.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

I used these two days to recover from my fatigue, and also wrote a letter to Jessie, in which I told her exactly what had taken place, without concealing my contempt at the behaviour of her husband, who could expose his wife's honour by a denunciation to the police.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

It seemed, to our excited imaginations, to look at us with its terrible hollow eyes.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Seated in her cosy, well furnished drawing-room, with its silken curtains and bright chintzes in the English style, I told her exactly what Rasputin and Anna had instructed me to say.
— from The Minister of Evil: The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia by William Le Queux

When a cruel ill-natured man has a mind to abuse one inferior to himself, either in power or courage, though he has not given the least occasion for it, how does he resemble the Wolf!
— from Æsop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. by Aesop

A fire sprang instantly to his eyes as he murmured: "My darling!
— from Friendship and Folly: A Novel by Maria Louise Pool

From Professor Jebb's Introduction to Homer , Ed. 1888, p. 131, I see that he agrees with Kirchhoff in holding that the Odyssey contains "distinct strata of poetical material from different sources and periods," and also that the poem owes its present unity of form to one man; he continues:—
— from The Authoress of the Odyssey Where and when she wrote, who she was, the use she made of the Iliad, and how the poem grew under her hands by Samuel Butler

He dwelt upon her with his tree look, in the happy embarrassment with which she let her head droop.
— from A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells

And of course I can if I try hard enough!”
— from For the Honor of the School: A Story of School Life and Interscholastic Sport by Ralph Henry Barbour

As a matter of fact it is strange her mother should allow her to do such things, but between ourselves, they do not shine in this household exactly by their force of character.
— from The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830 by Stendhal

In the human eye this lens is bi-convex.
— from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906 by Various

Blind and forgetful of everything in the hideous egotism of her despair, what was Olivia Marchmont but a fitting tool, a plastic and easily-moulded instrument, in the hands of unscrupulous people, whose hard intellects had never been beaten into confused shapelessness in the fiery furnace of passion?
— from John Marchmont's Legacy, Volume 2 (of 3) by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon