Sumantra for his wisdom famed, Delighted with the thought he framed, From the calm chamber, like a bay Of crowded ocean, took his way.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

One cried, "Oh, there he is carrying home the princess of the Golden Dwelling."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

But do me one cast of thy holy office, and, come what list of others, thou shalt sleep as safe in thy cell as a snail within his shell of proof.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Oh, curses on this house!”
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Arabia, in the opinion of the naturalist, is the genuine and original country of the horse ; the climate most propitious, not indeed to the size, but to the spirit and swiftness, of that generous animal.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

In this research she employed La Roche, her valet de chambre and confidential servant, who made vain inquiries, although after only about twelve or fourteen years, had the registers of the foundling hospital been in order, or the search properly made, the original cipher ought to have been found.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

First King Agamemnon flung mighty Odius, captain of the Halizoni, from his chariot.
— from The Iliad by Homer

A similar division of troops, under the orders of Jovius and Jovinus, prepared to follow the oblique course of the highways, through the Alps, and the northern confines of Italy.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Ralph glanced keenly at him, but the clear eye and open countenance of the honest old merchant underwent no change of expression, and met his look without reserve.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

A visitor once asked permission to witness the operation of cooking a beefsteak in my kitchen, saying that her husband had spoken in terms of commendation of those he had eaten at my table.
— from The Dinner Year-Book by Marion Harland

"Oh! Chris only think how hurt he would feel as he shook the stuff off his mane and whiskers!"
— from The Tale of Lal A Fantasy by Raymond Paton

But before we begin our consideration of these high forms, let us take a hasty glance at the "connecting-links" between the Birds and the Mammals.
— from A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga: The Yoga of Wisdom by William Walker Atkinson

She broke off, choking over the humiliation of such an outrage against her womanhood.
— from The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel. Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service by Robert W. (Robert William) Service

On this subject they are gaining daily in the opinions of nations, and hopeful advances are making towards their re-establishment on an equal footing with the other colors of the human family.
— from The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War by Carter Godwin Woodson

Thus the secretary writes: “It has long been a wish that we might have a branch of the C. L. S. C. in our ‘City on the Hill.’
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, July 1885, No. 10 by Chautauqua Institution

"Speak to Mr. Whitford first," said Clara, too proud of the boy for growing as she had trained him, to advise a course of conduct opposed to his notions of manliness, though now that her battle was over she would gladly have acquiesced in little casuistic compromises for the sake of the general peace.
— from The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative by George Meredith

There was also a fort in process of construction on Temperance Hill.
— from History of the Thirty-sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. 1862-1865 by Alonzo A. White