Justice divine, upon this side, is goading That Attila, who was a scourge on earth, And Pyrrhus, and Sextus; and for ever milks The tears which with the boiling it unseals In Rinier da Corneto and Rinier Pazzo, Who made upon the highways so much war." Then back he turned, and passed again the ford.
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

De Flotte and Bancel did not leave me until they had seen me get into my vehicle.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

And theer’s one curious thing—that, though he is so pleasant, I wouldn’t fare to feel comfortable to try and get his mind upon ‘t. He never said a wured to me as warn’t as dootiful as dootiful could be, and it ain’t likely as he’d begin to speak any other ways now; but it’s fur from being fleet water in his mind, where them thowts lays.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

It is true, and I own it now, that though I knew what good cause Don Fernando had to praise Luscinda, it gave me uneasiness to hear these praises from his mouth, and I began to fear, and with reason to feel distrust of him, for there was no moment when he was not ready to talk of Luscinda, and he would start the subject himself even though he dragged it in unseasonably, a circumstance that aroused in me a certain amount of jealousy; not that I feared any change in the constancy or faith of Luscinda; but still my fate led me to forebode what she assured me against.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

to be enamored of the Night for her own sake; and into this bizarrerie , as into all his others, I quietly fell; giving myself up to his wild whims with a perfect abandon .
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

All this succeeded to his wishes, and not only freed him from a world of sad explanations, but, in the end, it proved 145 the happy means, as you will read, of procuring my uncle Toby his H OBBY-HORSE.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Gradually the valleys were molded until they had acquired a smooth U-shaped character (fig. 3).
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior

Abide, Sir knight, and yield me up the hound thou tookest from my lady.”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Well, but if we were training boxers, or pancratiasts, or any other sort of athletes, would they never meet until the hour of contest arrived; and should we do nothing to prepare ourselves previously by daily practice?
— from Laws by Plato

And when King Mark understood that he was there arrived to fight for Ireland, then made King Mark great sorrow when he understood that the good and noble knight Sir Marhaus was come.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Had William Gladstone been elected spokesman of the men under thirty, he could not have expressed their collective and individual attitude to the war in apter terms than those which described his own mingled sense of diffidence and duty.
— from While I Remember by Stephen McKenna

They saw a multitude of people, and exchanged the compliments of the evening, yet these people made no more impression upon their thoughts than gossamer would have made upon their hands.
— from What Answer? by Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth) Dickinson

Lad then deposited him on the grass—whereupon Wolf pounced once more upon the handkerchief, [Pg 86] only to be lifted a second time, painlessly but terrifyingly, above earth.
— from Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune

As we filled our plates and squatted under the canvas that sheltered the cook's Dutch-oven layout, a man under the hind end of the chuck-wagon propped himself on elbow and shouted greeting to us.
— from Raw Gold: A Novel by Bertrand W. Sinclair

But they firmly declined his liquor, so muttering unintelligibly to himself he shambled off to obey their behests.
— from The Young Woodsman; Or, Life in the Forests of Canada by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley

When they had hauled me to the common moss-side, a multitude of people following, the constables and other officers gave me some blows over my back with willow rods and thrust me among the rude multitude, who, having furnished themselves with staves, hedge-stakes, and holme or holly bushes, fell upon me, and beat me upon the head, arms, and shoulders, till they had deprived me of sense; so that I fell down upon the wet common.
— from Historic Sites of Lancashire and Cheshire A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive. by James Croston

Suppose his nerve or his breath failed, suppose some impish accident muffled up the horn: there would he be with swollen cheeks, a mountain in labour, producing not even, a mouse-squeak; the mock of man and beast.
— from Jinny the Carrier by Israel Zangwill

As an elder in Israel I tried to be true to that calling; I tried to my utmost to honor and magnify that calling.
— from Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith by Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding) Smith

I've never asked a female to marry me until this hour; and I have not waited into greyness and ripeness to hear a negative.
— from The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts

This ceremony always took place at midnight, and as the light mounted up towards heaven shouts of joy burst forth from the multitudes who covered the hills, the house-tops, and terraces of the temples, their eyes directed towards the mountain of sacrifice.
— from The Ancient Cities of the New World Being Travels and Explorations in Mexico and Central America From 1857-1882 by Désiré Charnay