There is a certain Nysa, a mountain most high and richly grown with woods, far off in Phoenice, near the streams of Aegyptus.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Their wounded were much worse hurt than ours, who were mostly hit around the head and arms.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

He was indeed stony ground, but by digging about him I might have at any rate deprived him of all faith in the religion of his tribe, which would have been half way towards making him a sincere Christian; and now all this was cut off from me, and I could neither be of further spiritual assistance to him nor he of bodily profit to myself: besides, any company was better than being quite alone.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

I wrung the brine from my hair; and the rays of the risen sun soon visited me with genial warmth.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The consequence is that I am as little able to use the synthetic method here as in the foregoing Part.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

my rose collard neglejay with green robins, my yellow damask, and my black velvets with the short hoop; my bloo quilted petticot, my green mantel, my laced apron, my French commode, Macklin head and lappets and the litel box with my jowls.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

From Estella she looked at me, with a searching glance that seemed to pry into my heart and probe its wounds.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Between each cabbage and the time-piece, again, is a little China man having a large stomach with a great round hole in it, through which is seen the dial-plate of a watch.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

By the way, we must have a talk about what you are to do.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It is thus in the Life of a Man of Sense, a short Life is sufficient to manifest himself a Man of Honour and Virtue; when he ceases to be such he has lived too long, and while he is such, it is of no Consequence to him how long he shall be so, provided he is so to his Life's End.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

My husband made her a bed in the hall near our room, and she did every cunning, intelligent act of which a dog is capable.
— from Tenting on the Plains; or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas by Elizabeth Bacon Custer

Allen having frequently seen the squaw in the fall, took the opportunity when her husband was absent with his cows, daily to make her a visit; and in return for his kindnesses she made and gave him a red cap finished and decorated in the highest Indian style.
— from A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison by James E. (James Everett) Seaver

I have seen the scented flower, Whose tender stems I cull, For her brief date and meted hour Appear more beautiful.
— from Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 2 by Robert Bridges

By Mrs. Haycraft, Author of "The Children of Cherryholme," etc. DEVOTIONAL CLASSICS.
— from S. W. Partridge & Co. Catalogue of Popular Illustrated Books, 1904 by England) S. W. Partridge & Co. (London

The Man Hears a Voice: Samuel, Samuel! 38 CHAPTER III.
— from William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké

Something in their faces made her ask quickly what was the matter.
— from Unawares: A Story of an Old French Town by Frances Mary Peard

When the guests came, each was given a dish, with his share of the food; no one might have a second help, but it was quite polite to carry away what was not eaten.
— from American Indians by Frederick Starr

Old Audley left Flora Guy well provided for at his death, but somehow or other considerably before that event Larry Toole succeeded in prevailing on the honest handmaiden to marry him, and although, questionless, there was some disparity in point of years, yet tradition says, and we believe it, that there never lived a fonder or a happier couple, and it is a genealogical fact, that half the Tooles who are now to be found in that quarter of the country, derive their descent from the very alliance in question.
— from The Cock and Anchor by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu