Ask and Embla became living souls, and they received a garden in Midgard as a dwelling-place for themselves and their children until the end of time.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

They were like the tiniest grains of dust, and they whirled round and gathered in clusters in a nebulous sort of way.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Between the space where silver Simois flows, Where lay the fleets, and where the rampires rose, All grim in dust and blood Patroclus stands, And turns the slaughter on the conquering bands.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Discomposed and speechless with the apprehension of more such visions, he beheld his wife re-enter the room and get into bed in a calm business-like manner which made him feel hopelessly lonely in the world.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

At last, one morning, he announced that the work was ready, and gave instructions that all his friends, and the severe critics and judges of art, be called together.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

For Esperanto words whose use or meaning is specially explained, references are given in the Vocabulary. A. Abbreviations , 286; of ordinals, p. 107, ftn.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

This was some relief, and getting into bed I slept till morning.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the Beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Ridiklis ran and got it, and all the others came running upstairs to see what Peter Piper was going to do.
— from Racketty-Packetty House, as Told by Queen Crosspatch by Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Investigating Officer: ‘What else did he say?’ “Witness: ‘He said that the struggle between Russia and Germany is a Russian struggle.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 7 by Various

The writer hears that Sir Robert de Brus never had the goodwill of his own followers or the people at large, or even half of them, so much with him as now; and it now first appears that he was right, and God is openly with him, as he has destroyed all the King's power both among the English and the Scots, and the English force is in retreat to its own country not to return.
— from King Robert the Bruce by Alexander Falconer Murison

There should be a space of five hundred cubic feet allowed for each man; and in general the sick had better remain on board than be crowded beyond that degree; or relief should be provided to the hospital by an hospital ship, which, for reasons already given, is preferable to any accommodation on shore; and such an institution would be more particularly proper for the reception of convalescent men.
— from Observations on the Diseases of Seamen by Blane, Gilbert, Sir

We can match the yellow of the spectrum, with red and green in combination; but while the pure tone of the spectrum cannot be broken up by the prism, the matching colour of our own creation can be broken up into its elements red and green.
— from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906 by Various

Guazaves (Guazabas), North Mexican tribe, i., 571-91 ; location, i., 609 ; lang., iii., 699 , 707 . Gucumatz (Tepeu, Tepeuh), Quiché ruler and god, ii., 648 , 716-17 ; iii., 45 , 135 , 475 ; v., 23 , 170 , 188 , chap.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

They are, however, performed so rapidly, and glide into each other so perfectly, as to render an analysis of them exceedingly difficult.
— from Animal Locomotion; or, walking, swimming, and flying With a dissertation on aëronautics by James Bell Pettigrew

When properly conducted, the recitation aids greatly in clarifying, arranging and fixing the important points of the course in the mind of the student.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper

He was all these things; he was rooted and grounded in citizenship, in social ethics.
— from Dangerous Ages by Rose Macaulay

It is so regular and geometrical in its form that it has more the appearance of being the production of man's hand than of a creation which breathes and moves.
— from The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants. by Louis Figuier