As the reconciliation was effected the baboon rapidly moved up and down his jaws and lips, and looked pleased.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

The sons of Jupiter ( Διόσκουροι ) also, among the Greeks, have many names; first, the three who at Athens have the title of Anactes, 262 Tritopatreus, Eubuleus, and Dionysus, sons of the most ancient king Jupiter and Proserpine; the next are Castor and Pollux, sons of the third Jupiter and Leda; and, lastly, three others, by some called Alco, 263 Melampus, and Tmolus, sons of Atreus, the son of Pelops.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

When Jurgis heard of this, from a fellow “hobo,” he vowed that he would have half a dozen bowls before morning; but, as it proved, he was lucky to get one, for there was a line of men two blocks long before the stand, and there was just as long a line when the place was finally closed up.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Emily and Du Pont gradually became thoughtful and silent; but Annette was all joy and loquacity, and Ludovico was gay, without forgetting the respectful distance, which was due to his companions.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

“By-the-by, I hear there is an ox to be roasted whole, Jacob, a little above London Bridge; suppose we go and see the fun.”
— from Jacob Faithful by Frederick Marryat

He was very popular with all the young people, being jolly, and looked a little like the usual idea of Santa Claus, with his gray beard and hair.
— from A Portrait of Old George Town by Grace Dunlop Peter

Southey concludes his journal at Longtown, a little town just across the Scotch Border, in the following words:— "Here we left Mr. Telford, who takes the mail for Edinburgh.
— from The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain by Samuel Smiles

I was never aught save Pipistrello—Pipistrello the wrestler, who jumped and leaped, and lifted an ox from the ground as easily as other men lift a child.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various

"Yes, I know," Julia agreed, looking a little vaguely out of the blurred window.
— from The Story of Julia Page by Kathleen Thompson Norris

Till the bee comes forth to sip Nectar from the flow'rets lip,— Till the light-winged zephyrs wake Dancing ripples on the lake, And the cloudlets in the height Don their fleecy robes of white;— Then, with graceful Euterpe, Seek the spreading greenwood tree, And with joy, and light, and love, AH around thee and above, Tune thy lyre to praiseful mirth With all happy things of Earth!
— from Poems of the Heart and Home by Yule, J. C., Mrs.

'You forget that the Japanese are losing a lot of men at the front.
— from Chatterbox, 1906 by Various

But not there ceases their immortal claim; From golden clouds I heard a small voice say: Wisdom rejoiceth in a higher aim, Nor heeds the transient shadows of a day; These earthly sounds may die away, and all These perishable pictures sink in night, But Virtue from the dust her sons shall call, And lead them forth to joy, and life, and light; Though from their languid grasp earth's comforts fly, And with the silent worm their buried bodies lie.
— from The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by William Lisle Bowles

Jean are living, as Loti's Gaud and Fatougay live, as Rod's Michael Teissier lives, as the delicious Yette lives, so, and with even more vitality than they, the tutor Tristan lives in this admirable novel.
— from Critical Studies by Ouida