While still at sea in my ship I could bear the cattle lowing as they came home to the yards, and the sheep bleating.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

These passages, and many more that might be quoted, seem to me to demonstrate (1) that the Latin and the Crusca have had a common original, and (2) that this original was an Italian version from the French.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Now the king, being desirous to get this plotter against him into his hands, and being also afraid lest he should some way come to the knowledge how his affairs stood, and be upon his guard, he dissembled his anger in his epistle to him, as in other points he wrote kindly to him, and desired him to make haste, because if he came quickly, he would then lay aside the complaints he had against his mother; for Antipater was not ignorant that his mother had been expelled out of the palace.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Even in my then state of sickness, I perceived two things: that the mate was touched with liquor, as the captain hinted, and that (drunk or sober) he was like to prove a valuable friend.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

The cities of Italy resounded with the noise of drinking and dancing; the spoils of victory were wasted in sensual pleasures; and nothing (says Agathias) remained unless to exchange their shields and helmets for the soft lute and the capacious hogshead.
— 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

On the side towards the West of this Sea the Caucasus runs along by it, which is of all mountain-ranges both the greatest in extent and the loftiest: and the Caucasus has many various races of men dwelling in it, living for the most part on the wild produce of the forests; and among them there are said to be trees which produce leaves of such a kind that by pounding them and mixing water with them they paint figures upon their garments, and the figures do not wash out, but grow old with the woollen stuff as if they had been woven into it at the first: and men say that the sexual intercourse of these people is open like that of cattle.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

In the execution of his design, the emperor affected to display his love, and to conceal his fear of the army.
— 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

That seal You ask with such a violence, the King- Mine and your master-with his own hand gave me; Bade me enjoy it, with the place and honours, During my life; and, to confirm his goodness, Tied it by letters-patents.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He looked at the tall trees and was sorry that he was not a little animal to climb high in the air without being frightened.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

In the former, any woman will suit any man, for both are still in their primitive and undifferentiated condition; in the latter, all their characteristics have been developed by social institutions, and each mind, having taken its own settled form, not from education alone, but by the co-operation, more or less well-regulated, of natural disposition and education, we can only make a match by introducing them to each other to see if they suit each other in every respect, or at least we can let them make that choice which gives the most promise of mutual suitability.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This faith has led him to sever his connection with the Cambridge Brotherhood of late, and to connect himself with the [150] school of Rabindranath Tagore, whom the British Government has recently knighted for his poetical gifts and for his political loyalty.
— from A Tour of the Missions: Observations and Conclusions by Augustus Hopkins Strong

It was securely locked, and the Cossack had no doubt that it was also bolted on the far side.
— from The Boy Allies with the Cossacks; Or, A Wild Dash over the Carpathians by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

On the 1st of April, Wooster had arrived, and, on the succeeding day, Arnold's horse fell with him, and so bruised one of his legs as to confine him to his bed for some time.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

I see he lives at the corner here.
— from A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen

Then he turned away from the Alderman, took a few steps to the fire-place, and leant against the carving, his head bowed upon his arms.
— from House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court by Guy Thorne

But it remained unsold throughout May, and well into June, long after the crowds had ceased to frequent the exhibition, and only chance visitors from the country straggled in by twos and threes.
— from A Foregone Conclusion by William Dean Howells

But finally it grew louder and they could hear two voices in dispute.
— from The Motor Boys Afloat; or, The Stirring Cruise of the Dartaway by Clarence Young

A strop or short piece of rope fixed on each side, under the shrouds, upon the heads of the main and fore masts, from which it hangs as low as the cat-harpings, having an iron thimble spliced into an eye at the lower end to receive the hooks of the main and fore tackles.
— from The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by W. H. (William Henry) Smyth

The sounds that issued from his blood-streaming jaws did not sound like anything that could have been produced by an earthly creation.
— from Red Nails by Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard