Horace, by adopting, in the multiplicity of his subjects, almost all the various measures of the different Greek poets, and frequently combining different measures in the same composition, has compensated for the dialects of that tongue, so happily suited to poetry, and given to a language less distinguished for soft inflexions, all the tender and delicate modulations of the Eastern song.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Having stationed the five musicians in this subterranean chamber, he summoned the Master of the Taoists to his presence and invited him to a banquet.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Sultan, her cat, which might have mewed Allegri’s miserere in the Sixtine Chapel, had filled her heart and sufficed for the quantity of passion which existed in her.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

After watching me into the second chop, he said: ‘There’s half a pint of ale for you.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

When the moon illumined the surrounding country he perceived a figure coming down the mountain.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Often as the event took place, the fun never seemed to grow old; and from the exuberance of the delight, and the unceasing flow of the laughter, I began to wonder within myself if these same cards had not some secret and symbolic meaning unknown to the neophyte.
— from Jack Hinton: The Guardsman by Charles James Lever

What matters it, though she called him by some other name?
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

After watching me into the second chop, he said: "There's half a pint of ale for you, will you have it now?'
— from History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan) L'Estrange

Virginians and Marylanders in the seventeenth century had much more silver than New Englanders.
— from Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

Why must I––” Then she collected herself, and came forward.
— from The Road to Frontenac by Samuel Merwin

hat a treaty made in the seventeenth century had, a few weeks after it had been signed, been outrageously violated in the sight of all Europe?
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Thirty-five years ago, in one of those attacks of indiscretion which overtake the most careful man in the spring, Cyrus had proposed to her; and when she declined him, he had immediately repeated his offer, animated less by any active desire to possess her, than by the dogged male determination to over-ride all obstacles, whether feminine or financial.
— from Virginia by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

In an admirable letter written to a literary friend in London, under date January 13th, 1830, he says: "Since our acquaintance has recommenced this winter, I have observed, with frequent pain, that not much (if the slightest) change has taken place in your opinions on the only important subject on earth.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various