Neererhe drew, and many a walk travers’d Of stateliest Covert, Cedar, Pine, or Palme, Then voluble and bold, now hid, now seen Among thick-wov’n Arborets and Flours Imborderd on each Bank, the hand of Eve : Spot more delicious then those Gardens feign’d Or of reviv’d Adonis , or renownd Alcinous , host of old Laertes Son, Or that, not Mystic, where the Sapient King Held dalliance with his faire Egyptian Spouse.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Madame Cheron did not blush; but her niece did, a moment after, when she heard the name of Valancourt.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Of his fellow-collegian, the celebrated Mr. George Whitefield, he said, 'Whitefield never drew as much attention as a mountebank does; he did not draw attention by doing better than others, but by doing what was strange.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

As Dymov and she had very little money, only just enough, she and her dressmaker were often put to clever shifts to enable her to appear constantly in new dresses and make a sensation with them.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Now the king felt great joy at this, and commanded that his entire household should eat with him next day, and made a great feast.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

Neither does a mere assertion ( burns ), if we neglect to mention the person or thing about which the assertion is made.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Messages forwarded from North Dakota are made available for users as entries in a 'local' conference called KIDCAFE.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

<non de' addur maraviglia al tuo volto>>.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

When Laurie first went to college, he fell in love about once a month, but these small flames were as brief as ardent, did no damage, and much amused Jo, who took great interest in the alternations of hope, despair, and resignation, which were confided to her in their weekly conferences.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

He pictured Eliza and himself in the dramatic situations which diversified the moving pictures of his nightly attendance: he rescued her from the wiles of Mexicans, counts, weirdly-wicked Hindoos; now he dragged her from the chimney into which she had been bricked by a Brotherhood of Blood; now, driving a monoplane above the hurtling express that bore her toward a fiendish revenge, he descended to halt the train at a river's brink while the bridge sank dynamited into the swirling stream—“Mercy, Tony!”
— from The Lay Anthony: A Romance by Joseph Hergesheimer

Strabo mentions that in the Peninsula were many different languages and alphabets ; no doubt, as many alphabets as idioms.
— from Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Louisa Stuart Costello

Such reflections as these made me wonder sometimes whether the moving picture, for all its imperfections and dangers and false view of life, for all the peculiar inanity and childishness inherent in its dramas, 378 is not doing as much as anything to give the masses of South America, particularly of the interior, at least a knowledge of better personal habits, even if not higher aspirations.
— from Working North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America by Harry Alverson Franck

They never did any man any good, and they have taken the wind and nerve out of hundreds.
— from Frank Merriwell at Yale; Or, Freshman Against Freshman by Burt L. Standish

Notwithstanding this shyness and reluctance, an engagement unavoidably began, but spiritless, and with a shout which discovered neither resolution nor steadiness; nor did any move a foot from his post.
— from The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 by Livy

But they, regarding it as at once too great a kindness from an enemy, and too great a reward for not doing a mean act to accept their prisoners so, released in return an equal number of the Tarentines and Samnites, but would admit of no debate of alliance or peace until Pyrrhus had removed his arms and forces out of Italy, and sailed back to Epirus with the same ships that brought him over.
— from The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch Being Parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, Edited for Boys and Girls by Plutarch

He could not always pay for the printing of his celebrated Abside de Notre Dame, a masterpiece, as he hadn't the necessary ten cents.
— from Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker

She was no doubt a mother and a guardian to her servants, and, although young and beautiful, as the Scripture tells us she was, yet possessed a gravity and dignity beyond her years.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

He never did a mean action; but sometimes an ostentatious pride tarnished the lustre of very splendid ones, made them appear to judicious eyes, more like tinsel, than gold.
— from Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories by Mary Wollstonecraft