I read a book of the Aeneid every night, so it was done in twelve nights, and I had great delight in it.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

She sprang to the door to run away; but on the steps King Grisly-beard overtook her, and brought her back and said, ‘Fear me not!
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

“Here we are,” said Field, as the roofs and bowers of the village, the spire and the spreading factory, broke upon them.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Surely we are quite out of the road?" "A bit of The Chase—the oldest wood in England.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

It was determined that the people of Cumæ and Suessula should have the same rights and be on the same footing as Capua.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

N.B.—Land proprietors having estate to dispose of, and persons requiring any branch of the above profession to be done, will meet with the most respectful attention on application by letter, or at this office.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

And right as Beaumains overtook the damosel, right so came Sir Kay and said, Beaumains, what, sir, know ye not me?
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Now had the Grecians snatch'd a short repast, And buckled on their shining arms with haste.
— from The Iliad by Homer

The gratitude manifested by this sick girl was such a contrast to the rudeness and brutality of the rest of the family, that I soon felt a powerful interest in her fate.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

The impression made upon the public mind, accustomed to the glories and successes of Louis XIV., was out of all proportion to the results, and blotted out the memory of the splendid self-devotion of Tourville and his followers.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

There was a strange intensity of color in the dark landscape, from the deep purple of the Barvas hills, coming forward to the deep green of the pasture-land around them, and the rich reds and browns of the heath and the peat-cuttings.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 by Various

The shops under the colonnades that inclose it upon three sides were shut; the caffès, before which the circles of idle coffee-drinkers and sherbet-eaters ordinarily spread out into the Piazza, were repressed to the limits of their own doors; the stands of the water-venders, the baskets of those that sold oranges of Palermo and black cherries of Padua, had vanished from the base of the church of St. Mark, which with its dim splendor of mosaics and its carven luxury of pillar and arch and finial rose like the high-altar, ineffably rich and beautiful, of the vaster temple whose inclosure it completed.
— from A Foregone Conclusion by William Dean Howells

And as the Child sat there, a little Mouse rustled from among the dry leaves of the former year, and a Lizard half glided from a crevice in the rock, and both of them fixed their bright eyes upon the little stranger; and when they saw that he designed them no evil, they took courage and came nearer to him.
— from Peter Schlemihl by Adelbert von Chamisso

After a career at the London University, where he took his B.A. degree, he read for the Royal Artillery; but on the 150 Crimean War coming to an end and no more officers being wanted, he became a clerk in the Privy Council Office, and was subsequently called to the Bar.
— from Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie

And when he was near to Samosata, Antony sent out his army in all their proper habiliments to meet him, in order to pay Herod this respect, and because of the assistance he had given him; for he had heard what attacks the barbarians had made upon him
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

by the late act for settling the trade to the East Indies, might be settled and adjusted in such a manner as not to remain a burden on the petitioners; and that such further considerations might be had for their relief, and for the preservation of the East India trade, as should be thought reasonable.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

It is insight, or perception of the relations and bearings of the contemplated act.
— from John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard

Colonel Lowe of the Twelfth requested the privilege of driving off this party with his regiment accompanied by our two cannon.
— from Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1: April 1861-November 1863 by Jacob D. (Jacob Dolson) Cox

Like the soldiers of Las Bocas, their clothing ran the gamut of the service uniforms of Porfirio Diaz’s army; the silver and gray of rurales , red and blue of the infantry, variations from these of cavalry and artillery, fatigue linen mixed in varying quantities with charro and peon costumes.
— from Over the Border: A Novel by Herman Whitaker