Through breaking ranks his furious course he bends, And at the goddess his broad lance extends; Through her bright veil the daring weapon drove, The ambrosial veil which all the Graces wove; Her snowy hand the razing steel profaned, And the transparent skin with crimson stain'd, From the clear vein a stream immortal flow'd, Such stream as issues from a wounded god; 148 Pure emanation!
— from The Iliad by Homer

They seated themselves in the comfortable limousine; Edouard took his place at the wheel, and away they went toward the railway station.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

I would fall asleep, and often I would be awake again for short snatches only, just long enough to hear the regular creaking of the wainscot, or to open my eyes to settle the shifting kaleidoscope of the darkness, to savour, in an instantaneous flash of perception, the sleep which lay heavy upon the furniture, the room, the whole surroundings of which I formed but an insignificant part and whose unconsciousness I should very soon return to share.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

From inclination, and forced by the circumstances of his humble home, Bering went to sea, and on the long expeditions that he made, he developed into an able seaman.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

And thus Aaron was now no longer esteemed to have the priesthood by the favor of Moses, but by the public judgment of God; and thus he and his children peaceably enjoyed that honor afterward.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Left early to his own guidance, he had begun to be self-dependent while yet a boy; and it was a condition aptly suited to his natural force of will.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

But Elinor had no such dependence; for since Edward would still be unable to marry Miss Morton, and his chusing herself had been spoken of in Mrs. Ferrars's flattering language as only a lesser evil than his chusing Lucy Steele, she feared that Robert's offence would serve no other purpose than to enrich Fanny.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

His wife seeing him so long to languish, entreated that he would give her leave to see and at leisure to consider of the condition of his disease, and that she would freely tell him what she thought.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Until he was sixteen years old Moses was taught little else than Hebrew and the Talmud.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

I have a force sufficient to leave enough to hold our lines (all that is necessary of them), and move out with plenty to whip his whole army.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The second house was made of brick, but, like the former one, was not large enough to hold the growing congregation.
— from The History of the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia by S. J. (Silvanus Jackson) Quinn

They decided that they would go to the river, and take the canoes, as the Indian woman said that they were large enough to hold them all.
— from The Settlers in Canada by Frederick Marryat

Of course it's a little embarrassing to have her engaged at once before she's seen anything of society here, but perhaps it's all for the best, after all: the main thing is that she should be satisfied, and I can see that she's only too much so.
— from April Hopes by William Dean Howells

In Eagle he had friends who were only a shade less evil than himself; but they had what he lacked and because of it were entitled to a forced respect of small weight—they had courage, that spontaneous, initiative, heedless courage which toned the atmosphere of the whole West to a magnificent crimson.
— from Hopalong Cassidy by Clarence Edward Mulford

We went some two thousand yards back round the hill towards the south, and reached a sort of little grotto formed of rock slabs, large enough to hold two men.
— from Fire and Sword in the Sudan A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895 by Slatin, Rudolf Carl, Freiherr von

“I will not even tell you that to-night; it would be no use, the evil spirits will not let you listen, Edna; they have stopped your ears too; to-night you are in their power, you have placed yourself at their mercy; no one can help you except One, and you will not even ask Him.”
— from Our Bessie by Rosa Nouchette Carey

Take what little earth they have about them, and try to give them a similar position in your own rockery.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Ellen Eddy Shaw

The room was gaily decorated with bannarets, and suspended over the chair was a large flag, bearing the following motto:— 'LONG LIVE ELLERTHORPE, THE HERO OF THE HUMBER!'
— from The Hero of the Humber; Or, The History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe by Henry Woodcock

Leaving Eugène to hold the Marchfeld, Napoleon and his army pressed on after Marmont in pursuit of Charles.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 3 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane