Saul had also a great many chariots and horsemen, and against whomsoever he made war he returned conqueror, and advanced the affairs of the Hebrews to a great degree of success and prosperity, and made them superior to other nations; and he made such of the young men as were remarkable for tallness and comeliness the guards of his body.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

When this was done, Captain Nemo and his men stood up; then they all approached the grave, sank again on bended knee, and extended their hands in a sign of final farewell. . . .
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

’Twas so with one now pass’d away; And what she was at twenty-two, Honor was now; and he might say Mine was a choice I could not rue.
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

[297] That it is not always historical, many scholars are agreed.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

We cannot precisely circumscribe the actions, we interdict them; they must guess at our meaning under general and doubtful terms; the very idea we invent for their chastity is ridiculous: for, amongst the greatest patterns that I have is Fatua, the wife of Faunus: who never, after her marriage, suffered herself to be seen by any man whatever; and the wife of Hiero, who never perceived her husband’s stinking breath, imagining that it was common to all men.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

As Natásha, at her mother’s side, passed through the crowd behind a liveried footman who cleared the way for them, she heard a young man speaking about her in too loud a whisper.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I opened the door; the stage creaked uneasily, and in the gloomy abyss the swaying straps beckoned me, like ghostly hands, to come in now, and have my sufferings out at once.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

He is a good man for duty in the North, and has made several patrols in very cold weather."
— from Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police by R. G. (Roderick George) MacBeth

“Then,” said he, “there came out upon her worn face, furrowed and pale, a beautiful radiance, and she added, “but Jesus was so near and helped me so, that I could suffer this way and more, if my Father thinks best”; and on she went with like words of cheer and triumph that made the sick room a vestibule of glory.
— from When the Holy Ghost is Come by Samuel Logan Brengle

Not only was his rest disturbed with trying regularity by night, and his meals served with an equally trying irregularity by day, but he was obliged to deal with an altogether changed wife.
— from Dust by Marcet Haldeman-Julius

The man was growing very nervous, and his muscles showed the working of strong emotion.
— from The Paying Guest by George Gissing

255 "I am used to living in the woods, so I will take the little farm and let Ned and his mother stay near civilization, where they can see white folks once in a while.
— from Rodney, the Overseer by Harry Castlemon