The impatient child is not grubbing for beauties, but pushing the siege; the women vex him with their delays, and their talking; the mention of the nurse is personal, and little sympathy has he for the child that is young enough to be frightened at the nodding plume of a helmet; but all the while that he thus chafes at the pausing of the action, the strong vertical light of Homer’s poetry is blazing so full upon the people and things of the Iliad , that soon to the eyes of the child they grow familiar as his mother’s shawl; yet of this great gain he is unconscious, and on he goes, vengefully thirsting for the best blood of Troy, and never remitting his fierceness till almost suddenly it is changed for sorrow—the new and generous sorrow that he learns to feel when the noblest of all his foes lies sadly dying at the Scæan gate.
— from Eothen; Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Alexander William Kinglake

As he talked, Napoleon idly plucked a little sprig from the branch as it came near his hand, and played with it; and when, the conference over, with a nod of thanks to Jacques, he rode away, the grenadier stopped, picked up the sprig fresh from the Emperor's hand and placed it carefully in his breast-pocket.
— from Castle Nowhere by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Beneath, the donor's name is placed, And lower still we read In characters, now half effaced, The motive for his deed;— "Onesimus this altar reared To One he gratefully revered."
— from Poems by John L. (John Lawson) Stoddard

"Now it pauses a little," said Robert.
— from The Lords of the Wild: A Story of the Old New York Border by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

The cleft north of this originates very near it, passes a little S. of the promontory, and runs to the E. edge of the plateau surrounding Dawes.
— from The Moon: A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger

‘Arva’ is a root very generally dispersed over the South Seas, and from it is extracted a juice, the effects of which upon the system are at first stimulating in a moderate degree; but it soon relaxes the muscles, and exerting a narcotic influence produces a luxurious sleep.
— from Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville

A large body of Englishmen numbering some of the greatest names in politics and literature sympathized deeply with the earlier manifestations of the revolutionary spirit.
— from Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century by James Richard Joy

And now Ivan produced a long strong rope, and tied on to it a lot of pack-thread, at the end of which a heavy piece of lead was fastened.
— from The Day of Wrath by Mór Jókai