The children seemed to be attacked by a feeling of lassitude; they would not eat, they complained of pains in their stomachs, dragged along for a short time, and died in frightful suffering.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

I depend on you, Leila, to keep that lively bunch of Sanfordites in until we get there.” Leila, aided by Vera, was now endeavoring to carry out Phyllis’s request.
— from Marjorie Dean, College Junior by Josephine Chase

They had ceased to share their ideas or to consult each other on any opinion or plan; they never enjoyed that community of pleasures or of trouble which is the natural marriage of souls; they neither wept together nor rejoiced together—they did not even quarrel.
— from Leon Roch: A Romance, vol. 1 (of 2) by Benito Pérez Galdós

'If, however, it is fear of public opinion which causes such a one to eschew bad actions by following the path of virtue, he will, nevertheless, not escape the criticism of public opinion, because of the contradiction between his words and his deeds: nor will he obtain the happiness presenting itself on the road of his destiny, owing to the same awe of public opinion.
— from The Gâtakamâlâ; Or, Garland of Birth-Stories by Aryasura

It is alleged that the prisoners, taking advantage of a dark and rainy night, eluded the cordon of patrol boats and succeeded in landing upon Sandinsel.
— from The Sea-girt Fortress: A Story of Heligoland by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Quickly they sped, so that not even the chariot of Poseidon could have outstripped them.
— from Stories of the Old World by Alfred John Church

Accordingly Lentulus designed nothing small or trivial, but he determined to kill all the senators, and 167 as many of the rest of the citizens as he could, and to burn the city, and spare nobody except the children of Pompeius, whom they intended to seize and keep in their power as securities for coming to terms with Pompeius, for already there was strong and sure report of his returning to Rome from his great expedition.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4) by Plutarch

On the other hand, the supernormal excitation of the faculties neither explains the cases of prediction nor the citation of unknown facts.
— from Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion

Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, UK, US, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established-17 September 1949 aim-to promote mutual defense and cooperation members-(16) Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, UK, US Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) established-NA 1958 aim-associated with OECD, seeks to promote the peaceful uses of nuclear energy members-(23) Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, US Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) note-also known as the London Suppliers Group established-1974 aim-to establish guidelines on exports of enrichment and processing plant assistance and nuclear exports to countries of proliferation concern and regions of conflict and instability members-(28)
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

In Philo, as we have seen, the Hebraic and Hellenic conceptions of God touch at their summits in their noblest expressions; the conceptions of Plato are interfused with the imagination of the prophets.
— from Philo-Judæus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich

At daybreak there remained not the least token of the events of the night, excepting the corpse of Porteous, which still hung suspended in the place where he had suffered, and the arms of various kinds which the rioters had taken from the city guard-house, which were found scattered about the streets as they had thrown them from their hands when the purpose for which they had seized them was accomplished.
— from The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Walter Scott