from the queen of Jove, The immortal empress of the realms above; Unknown to him who sits remote on high, Unknown to all the synod of the sky.
— from The Iliad by Homer

This expression irritated Prince Andrew, and in a determined, ringing, and unpleasant tone he continued: “I have received a refusal from Countess Rostóva and have heard reports of your brother-in-law having sought her hand, or something of that kind.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

After the apple and cherry trees broke into bloom, we ran about under them, hunting for the new nests the birds were building, throwing clods at each other, and playing hide-and-seek with Nina.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

Already the religious scruples of the state had appeared in this, that when gold was wanting for public uses, to make up for the Gauls the amount of the ransom agreed upon, they had accepted that which was contributed by the matrons, so that they might not touch the sacred gold.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

It fed, since it could not roam abroad, upon the human material which was brought to it in its official seclusion.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

562 He at that time bore so great affection to the Roman Apostolic usages, that he had designed, if he recovered from his sickness, to go to Rome, and there
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

A strange religious feature pointing to a remote antiquity is the occasional deification and worship even of objects fashioned by the hand of man, when regarded as useful to him.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

I drew the arrow from the rent, And up to heaven the hermit went, Lamenting, as from earth he passed, His aged parents to the last.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

“Well, sir,—when we got home, I took out the medicines, but the pocket-book was nowhere to be found; and I have been back with James, and we have looked all along the road, and under the hemlock-tree, and we have inquired at the apothecary’s; but we cannot find it any where.”
— from Rollo's Museum by Jacob Abbott

Well, as luck would have it, when we sunk on the ledge, it turned at right angles up the hill.
— from Rimrock Jones by Dane Coolidge

To him, at least, they were realities, and upon them he had built a dazzling superstructure, which now suddenly crumbled into pieces at his feet.
— from Helen Ford by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

In a communication to the author from Mr. Nasarvariji F. Billimoria, dated March 14, 1896, the writer says that, where cases of premature burning have occurred in India, the relatives are unwilling to have the facts published, and shrink from making them known.
— from Premature Burial and How It May Be Prevented by William Tebb

In every decision to which he comes as to what is right or wrong, reference is generally made in his mind, either to the declarations of Scripture, or to the moral instructions which [Pg 116] he has formerly received; and upon these he invariably falls back, when any action of a doubtful character is presented for his approval or rejection.
— from A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education by James Gall

without finding the horse Set out with Sergt Gass in the Small Canoe at about 8 A M. at 10 Shabono and Labiech returned also unsucksessfull they had went on the back trail nearly to the last Village and took a circle around on the hills.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The ribs are usually thinner; hence, the edges are sharper.
— from Beauty: Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Alexander Walker

But Philip feared the result, and urged that her mother at least should be present.
— from Tippoo Sultaun: A tale of the Mysore war by Meadows Taylor

She threw out her hands in a gesture of repudiation and horror; she flashed one withering, horrified look into his face, then, with a moan of anguish, she swayed like a reed broken by the tempest, and would have fallen to the floor in her spotless robes had not Gerald Goddard caught her senseless form in his arms, and, lifting her by main strength, he bore her from the room and upstairs to her own chamber.
— from The Masked Bridal by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.

More plainly, one does not know whether his abstract imaginations of pastoral life and scenery are not ridiculous and unreal, till he has seen one of these landscapes, and felt steeped , if I may use such a word, in the very loveliness which inspired the pencil of the painter.
— from Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Nathaniel Parker Willis