As Bellerophon in [2532] Homer, Qui miser in sylvis moerens errabat opacis, Ipse suum cor edens, hominum vestigia vitans.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Yasha sits on the cape and imperturbably strums on the accordion, while the old man is still more eager to exert himself.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Saniette who, ever since he had surrendered his untouched plate to the butler, had been plunged once more in silent meditation, emerged finally to tell them, with a nervous laugh, a story of how he had once dined with the Duc de La Trémoïlle, the point of which was that the Duke did not know that George Sand was the pseudonym of a woman.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

I saw the cold steel gleam on high, and once more I shut my eyes.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Something unwonted must clearly be in the wind, for the old squire's visits to his tenantry were rare; and though Mrs. Poyser had during the last twelvemonth recited many imaginary speeches, meaning even more than met the ear, which she was quite determined to make to him the next time he appeared within the gates of the Hall Farm, the speeches had always remained imaginary.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

A girdle of spines is their praise unto me: it scratcheth me even when I take it off.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

explain it to me: seest thou such fickleness in the king's mind, that with that maiden I shall my engagement break, whom with my whole heart I thought to love?
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

Whatsoever fortune is left is mine: I singly must expiate the treaty for you all, and make decision with the sword.'
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Making his fast behind mine I started my engine, and skimming over the edge of the roof I dove down into the streets of the city far below the plane usually occupied by the air patrol.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

In the summer he did not mind it so much, except when the heat tried him; but he would always have preferred to spend his leisure with a book in the library, or in the garden.
— from Sir Harry: A Love Story by Archibald Marshall

Liquor drinking must be given up: it is the root of multitudinous ills; so must excessive tea drinking.
— from Papers on Health by John Kirk

Suddenly, or was it my fancy, a woman's figure flashed by, a few paces from me … I strained my eyes eagerly into the darkness, I held my breath.
— from The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

I daresay they wouldn't mind it so much either."
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917 by Various

And a somewhat similar moulding is still more effectively used in the drawing-room of the Hon.
— from Travels in South Kensington with Notes on Decorative Art and Architecture in England by Moncure Daniel Conway

Wall, I wrung my hands out of the dish-water they was in at the time, and took the coat and looked at it, and the minute I set my eyes on it I see what ailed it
— from Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 2 by Marietta Holley

"Man is so much encompassed about by the most serious and difficult problems that, when they are brought to his attention in the right way, he is impelled betimes towards a lasting kind of philosophical wonder, from which alone, as a fruitful soil, a deep and noble culture can grow forth.
— from On the Future of our Educational Institutions; Homer and Classical Philology Complete Works, Volume Three by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The sweat dripped from me in streams; my eyes ached from the glare of the sun on the rocks and the bleached grasses.
— from Gold by Stewart Edward White

They are dyed of a deep purplish black color, and are made into sacques, muffs, etc.
— from Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making by W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson