He heard, his bosom rent by grief, The counsel of his brother chief; Crushed in his heart the maddening pain, And rose resolved and strong again.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The peaks are rocky, rounded, and sharp.
— from The Rocky Mountain Wonderland by Enos A. Mills

Grant had not sold a single book, but he drew from his pocket a red rosebud, and showing it to Kent said: “I’m foolish, I do believe; but I’ve seen a girl to-day who has paid me a thousand times for all the annoyance of being a book-agent.
— from A Country Idyl, and Other Stories by Sarah Knowles Bolton

They fear not God, who instead of pitying of, rail at God's people in their affliction, temptations, and persecutions, and rather rejoice and skip for joy, than sympathize with them in their sorrow.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

After proceeding for about one hundred yards along a species of gallery, they perceived the body of a man, lying on a sort of clumsy dais, in a perfect state of preservation, and rather resembling a sleeping person than a corpse.
— from Stronghand; or, The Noble Revenge by Gustave Aimard

Once more, the remembrance of the play at Rome returned, and set the last embers of resolution, which sickness and suffering had left to me, in a flame.
— from Little Novels by Wilkie Collins

"Precisely," answered Ravenslee, rising and stretching his long arms, "Tony has solved my difficulty; I'll go into the peanut trade."
— from The Definite Object: A Romance of New York by Jeffery Farnol

Politically the alliance between a united Poland, Bohemia and Greater Rumania is of paramount importance, because if Poland and Rumania remain as small as they are at present, and if the Czecho-Slovaks and Yugoslavs are left at the mercy of Vienna and Budapest, the Germans will be masters of Central Europe.
— from Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty by Vladimir Nosek