Now, I looked on the evening star, as softly and calmly it hung pendulous in the orange hues of sunset.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Harold, the last Saxon who sat upon the throne of England, was elected king by a large assembly of chiefs and nobles in London, on the evening of the very day which saw the body of Edward the Confessor consigned to the tomb.
— from History of the Anglo-Saxons, from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest Second Edition by Thomas Miller

The name is Legion of the eminences whose last cumbrous clog of clay is buried here.
— from The Haunts of Old Cockaigne by Alexander M. (Alexander Mattock) Thompson

“Good-night, Bobby Shafto,” and Patty started upstairs, then turned, and holding out her hand to Farnsworth, said “Good-night, King Lear; shall I see you in the morning?” 309 “No; I leave on the early train,” said Farnsworth, abruptly.
— from Patty's Social Season by Carolyn Wells

Wishing to examine several ruins in the neighbourhood I left our tents early on the [Pg 187] following morning, and rode to the mound of Abd-ul-Azeez, about eight or nine miles distant, and on the road between Baghdad and Arbil.
— from Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Henry Layard

I shall have no heirs, but my brother and her; and I will receive, as of my father's bounty, such an annuity (not in lieu of the estate, but as of his bounty) as he shall be pleased to grant me, if it be ever so small: and whenever I disoblige him, he to withdraw it, at his pleasure.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Samuel Richardson

To Gallus, more than to any other single poet, is due the naturalisation in Latin of the elegiac couplet, which, together with the lyrics of Horace and the Virgilian hexameter, makes up the threefold poetical achievement of the Augustan period, and which, after the Latin lyric had died out with Horace himself, halved the field with the hexameter.
— from Latin Literature by J. W. (John William) Mackail

The gentleman who has just left us failed not in laudation of the enterprising landlord; the more particularly, as the building of the new tavern advanced the price of ground on the street, and made him a few hundred dollars richer.
— from Ten Nights in a Bar Room by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

"If I may speak my mind to you," continued the Count d'Erfeuil, "as a nation, I love only the English and the French, one must either be proud like them or brilliant like us; all the rest is only imitation."
— from Corinne; Or, Italy. Volume 1 (of 2) by Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Staël

If we use the word " emanation ," our mind involuntarily recurs to something material, flowing out of some other thing that is material; and if we reject this idea of materiality, nothing is left of the emanation but an unreality.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike