There Samuel Armstrong, a youth of missionary parents, earned enough money to pay his expenses at an American college.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

If ever a charitable floor did open to swallow up a miserable, befeathered damsel the Green Gables porch floor should promptly have engulfed Anne at that moment.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

No poet has ever, as a poet, exercised a similar influence over his countrymen.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

This description of the enormous size of the dragon or serpent is inconsistent with what the Poet says in line 91, where we find Cadmus enabled to pin his enemy against an oak.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Possessing no clothes but the working suit he stood in—now stained and distorted by their two months of hard usage, he entered a shop to make some purchases which should put him, externally at any rate, a little in harmony with the prevailing tone of the morrow.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Anet was extremely exact, and kept everything in order; his vigilance was universally feared, and this set some bounds to that profusion they were too apt to run into; even Madam de Warens, to avoid his censure, kept her dissipation within bounds; his attachment was not sufficient, she wished to preserve his esteem, and avoid the just remonstrances he sometimes took the liberty to make her, by representing that she squandered the property of others as well as her own.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As soon as the pursuers had entered and ascended to the top of the high ground it became apparent that they would have to run all the way to the farmer's if they wished to get at him.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

It was easy enough to cross a desert in the night while we were asleep; and it was pleasant to reflect, in the morning, that we in actual person had encountered an absolute desert and could always speak knowingly of deserts in presence of the ignorant thenceforward.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

bouletai gar eis atmous analyomenon to pinomenon hygron eis tên kystin diadidosthai kapeit' ex ekeinôn authis allêlois syniontôn houtôs apolambanein auto tên archaian idean kai gignesthai palin hygron ex atmôn atechnôs hôs peri spongias tinos ê eriou tês kysteôs dianooumenos, all' ou sômatos akribôs pyknou kai steganou dyo chitônas ischyrotatous kektêmenou, Pg 52 Greek text di' hôn eiper dierchesthai phêsomen tous atmous, ti dêpot' ouchi dia tou peritonaiou kai tôn phrenôn dielthontes eneplêsan hydatos to t' epigastrion hapan kai ton thôraka?
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

He lived a long time in Spain, the climate of which pleased him exceedingly, and at length attached himself, as his brother had done, to the service of the King of Prussia, who knew men and gave them the reception they merited.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Baldwin did not at first answer this speech, and appeared surprised at such language; but they spoke to him thus in the name of the doge of Venice, whose old age he respected, and whom he loved tenderly; in the name of the counts and barons, without whose help he could not hope to preserve his empire, and, at length, he listened to the united voices of reason and friendship.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 2 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

Day after day, he went striding into the kraal whence, after a skirmish which was more or less prolonged, he emerged astride a mount which, with shrieking voice and rampant hoofs, gave notice to all that such a liberty could not be permitted.
— from On the Firing Line by Anna Chapin Ray

Briefly, it is an illusion which man brings with him when he is born, and which guides him through life; for notice that were this fear of death perfectly reasonable, man would be as uneasy about the chaos which preceded his existence as about that which is to follow it.
— from The Philosophy of Disenchantment by Edgar Saltus

To this place originally came the "founder of New Hampshire," Captain Mason, who had been the Governor of the Southsea Castle in Portsmouth harbor, England, and at his suggestion, the settlement, originally called Strawberry Bank, from the abundance of wild strawberries, was named Portsmouth.
— from America, Volume 5 (of 6) by Joel Cook

Wordsworth preserved his equanimity, and an implicit faith in himself.
— from English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppée

Here he deliberately assents to the opinion that Werther is "superior to everything that came after it, and for mere power, Goethe's paramount work," {327} dismisses Faust as something that "no two people have ever agreed about," sentences Egmont as "violating the historic truth of character," and mentions not a single one of those lyrics, unmatched, or rather only matched by Heine, in the language, by which Goethe first gave German rank with the great poetic tongues.
— from Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury

It was Gideon Rolfe, his face white with passion, his eyes ablaze, and a heavy stick upraised.
— from Only One Love; or, Who Was the Heir by Charles Garvice

Frank came home only upon Saturdays and Sundays, because he attended during most of the week at Mr. Lexicon’s academy, where he gradually became so clever, that the masters all praised his extraordinary attention, and covered him with medals, while Major Graham often filled his pockets with a reward of money, after which he ran towards the nearest shop to spend his little fortune in buying a present for somebody.
— from Holiday House: A Series of Tales by Catherine Sinclair

Slaney pricked his ears, and another of them broke in: "Mackintyre would have had Jake Winthrop jailed quite a while ago.
— from A Prairie Courtship by Harold Bindloss

There is little doubt that all the distinctive principles of plants or trees have been evolved, and are in perfect health elaborated, as a protection from their most destructive insect or fungoid enemies; just as physical protective equipment, such as thorns, prickles, and stinging apparatus, is produced by other plants or trees as safeguards against more powerful foes.
— from Grain and Chaff from an English Manor by Arthur Herbert Savory