So long as you lived you were their pride, but now death and destruction have fallen upon you.
— from The Iliad by Homer

— N. decomposition, analysis, dissection, resolution, catalysis, dissolution; corruption &c. (uncleanness) 653; dispersion &c. 73; disjunction &c. 44; disintegration.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

20 Cain was then standing by the altar on which he had offered up his gift; and he cried to God to accept his offering; but God did not accept it from him; neither did a divine fire come down to consume his offering.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

This district has fallen into decay, and is now dull and dreary.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

But the whole atmosphere of the nursery, and especially the English nurse, Darya Alexandrovna did not like at all.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Next day, after dining with the family and admiring the roses on my sweetheart’s cheeks, I returned to Paris.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The very decided Yea and Nay of their palate, their promptly ready disgust, their hesitating reluctance with regard to everything strange, their horror of the bad taste even of lively curiosity, and in general the averseness of every distinguished and self-sufficing culture to avow a new desire, a dissatisfaction with its own condition, or an admiration of what is strange: all this determines and disposes them unfavourably even towards the best things of the world which are not their property or could not become their prey—and no faculty is more unintelligible to such men than just this historical sense, with its truckling, plebeian curiosity.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This struck home, being true, and the lowering line by mouth and nostril darkened and deepened.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The next day at dawn the duellists met near the Magazine in Hyde Park, Colonel King bringing with him his second and a surgeon.
— from Love Romances of the Aristocracy by Thornton Hall

[65] BUCKLING TO unshine, streaming into his bedroom through the open window, woke Garnet next day as distant clocks were striking eight.
— from Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Filled with fury—the one emotion, he saw now, that he had not given up—he turned to smash Nicholas Dyall as Dyall had smashed his doll.
— from Never Come Midnight by H. L. (Horace Leonard) Gold

Vous me direz que voilà un jugement bien anglais, et que nous inventons des abstractions, comme nous disons, afin de nous dispenser de toucher aux grosses réalités.
— from The Letters of Henry James (Vol. I) by Henry James

His once white shirt was open at the neck displaying a deep and brawny chest.
— from Bahama Bill, Mate of the Wrecking Sloop Sea-Horse by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

CAULIFLOWER AU GRATIN Boil flowerets of cauliflower in salted water until nearly done and drain.
— from The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Myrtle Reed

No doubt Admiral Digby will take the first opportunity of acquainting them with your situation, and if we meet a ship homeward bound, you will be transferred."
— from The Rock of the Lion by Molly Elliot Seawell

This clinging to such worthless things seemed probably the result of destitution, of having had nothing, day after day and month after month.
— from Members of the Family by Owen Wister

Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone is a jack-of-all-trades, there manufactures remain still in the greatest barbarism.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant