She with a subtle smile in her mild eyes, The herald of her triumph, drawing nigh Half-whisper'd in his ear, 'I promise thee The fairest and most loving wife in Greece'.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

But after lifting my eyes to heaven, or rather to the roof of my dungeon-cell, I said, “The ways of God are inscrutable; and since the messenger of Heaven works not as an angel (for then a slight single blow would be enough), he works like a man, whose form he has doubtless taken, as we are not worthy to look upon his celestial body.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In the grave of the Viking warrior were buried his horn and armour in order that he might enter the halls of Valhalla fully equipped.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

If it be so, out with it boldly, man; Quick is mine ear to hear of good towards him.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

She with a subtle smile in her mild eyes, The herald of her triumph, drawing nigh Half-whispered in his ear, 'I promise thee The
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Those words, “make her your mistress,” entered the heart of the strict young man like a sword.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

“My friend,” said Monte Cristo, with an expression of melancholy equal to his own, “listen to me.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

kata de tas metaxy chôras autôn ho oikeiotatos eis threpsin parespartai chymos, hon heilkysan men ek tôn phlebôn tou haimatos, hoson hoion t' ên eklexamenai ton epitêdeiotaton, exomoiousi de kata brachy kai metaballousin eis tên heautôn ousian.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

The city, more especially the house, of the prophet, was a scene of clamorous sorrow of silent despair: fanaticism alone could suggest a ray of hope and consolation.
— 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

This evening an aged and venerable man entered the house of my host, and bade me seek thee out, and tell thee, in his name, that thou shouldest receive me not only into thy friendship, but into thy faith.
— from Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Volume 2 (of 2) A picture of Judaism, in the century which preceded the advent of our Savior. by Friedrich Strauss

The raiders, who come in gangs armed with guns and shoot in the preserves, are usually the scum of manufacturing towns, led or guided by a man expelled through his own bad conduct from the village, and who has a knowledge of the ground.
— from The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of natural history and rural life (Illustrated) by Richard Jefferies

My eye, that hair of hers is worth gold; I'd go down on the deck to please her, d'ye see!"
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66 No.406, August 1849 by Various

By-and-by she took comfort from the reflection that, as the lad had in his anger betrayed, he had beside him in London a monitor whose preaching would be so much wiser and more effectual than her own that she determined to say no more.
— from Mistress and Maid: A Household Story by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Aye, while your [Pg 316] immortal soul lives, while the laws of human nature continue, you must carry those brands of infamy on your character, and daily progress from bad to worse; sinking deeper and deeper in the contempt of all intelligent beings; and, were there no other avenger, in the remorse and despair of your own mind, you must experience the horrors of perdition.
— from Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson

The young Mortal enters the Hall of the Firmament.
— from The Pleasures of Life by Lubbock, John, Sir