As soon as the Goddess is pacified, Io receives her former shape, and she becomes what she was before; the hairs flee from off of her body, her horns decrease, and the orb of her eye becomes less; the opening of her jaw is contracted; her shoulders and her hands return, and her hoof, vanishing, is disposed of into five nails; nothing of the cow remains to her, but the whiteness of her appearance; and the Nymph, contented with the service of two feet, is raised erect on them ; and yet
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

so equitably of a controversy, which was wonderfully obscure and difficult, that, by reason of his just decree therein, he was reputed to have a most admirable judgment.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Martha Washington had as great a love of mischief as I. Two little children were seated on the veranda steps one hot July afternoon.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Yes, it was disappearance; here again, as in the mad will which he had long ago restored to its author, here again were the idea of a disappearance and the name of Henry Jekyll bracketted.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The bended head of Ráma showed His reverence for the grace bestowed; Then for each brave companion's sake He sought a further boon and spake: “O let that mighty power of thine The road to fair Ayodhyá line With trees where fruit of every hue The Vánars' eye and taste may woo, And flowers of every season, sweet With stores of honeyed juice, may meet.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Jack then proceeded on his journey, and traveled over hills and dales, till arriving at the foot of a high mountain he knocked at the door of a lonely house, when an old man let him in.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

So when the Colchians learnt that they were beseeching in vain and he bade them either observe his judgements or hold their ships away from his harbours and land, then they began to dread the threats of their own king and besought Alcinous to receive them as comrades; and there in the island long time they dwelt with the Phaeacians, until in the course of years, the Bacchiadae, a race sprung from Ephyra, 1410 settled among them; and the Colchians passed to an island opposite; and thence they were destined to reach the Ceraunian hills of the Abantes, and the Nestaeans and Oricum; but all this was fulfilled after long ages had passed.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

Tom had fainted, and Maggie was shaking him by the collar of his jacket, screaming, with wild eyes.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

In all pictures where there is a mother, he had reminded her, she is invariably either nursing or has just been doing so, and on her face is the satisfied serenity that attends the fulfilment of natural functions.
— from The Pastor's Wife by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Otto had just time to recognize the writing as that of the Crown Prince of Abruzzia, whom he had met, when a pair of keen eyes, curtained with wrinkled lids, peered over the crested sheet of paper.
— from The Adventure of Princess Sylvia by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

He is a widower, and, accompanied by his grown daughter, he started on his journey on Monday at two o’clock.
— from History of the Johnstown Flood Including all the Fearful Record; the Breaking of the South Fork Dam; the Sweeping Out of the Conemaugh Valley; the Over-Throw of Johnstown; the Massing of the Wreck at the Railroad Bridge; Escapes, Rescues, Searches for Survivors and the Dead; Relief Organizations, Stupendous Charities, etc., etc., With Full Accounts also of the Destruction on the Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers, and the Bald Eagle Creek. by Willis Fletcher Johnson

The history of her jealousy would be too long; cunning as I had been, she had not failed to discover my partiality for certain younge
— from Rule of the Monk; Or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Giuseppe Garibaldi

She slipped off her jacket after they started, and gave it to Kenby, but she let General Triscoe hold her umbrella over her, while he limped beside her.
— from Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete by William Dean Howells

He spent a long time on his job, but came back as directed with the wagon loaded with hay.
— from Laramie Holds the Range by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

“See there, now!” said Fray Antonio, angrily, as he held one of the boys by the collar of his jacket, “you have planted your clumsy foot on the stem of my choicest melon, and it lacked a day of perfect ripening.
— from Diego Pinzon and the Fearful Voyage He Took Into the Unknown Ocean A.D. 1492 by John Russell Coryell

The Chief Mate who is on his job should keep cost data on stevedoring, and in fact on most operations performed on board ship.
— from The Men on Deck: Master, Mates and Crew, Their Duties and Responsibilities by Felix Riesenberg