Betwixt the broken ranks the Tuscan rides, And these encourages, and those he chides; Recalls each leader, by his name, from flight; Renews their ardour, and restores the fight.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

Are there not rather endless levels beyond the grave, as the theory that he had censured teaches?
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

[144] Alluding to this subject the Rev. E. L. Barnwell
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

Each arbour clad with climbing bloom, Each grotto, cell, and picture room, Each lawn by beast and bird enjoyed, Each walk and terrace was destroyed.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Robert E. Lee betrayed the same intellectual commonplace, in a Virginian form, not to the same degree, but quite distinctly enough for one who knew the American.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Reflexionó, pues, un momento, pasado el cual alzó la cabeza 25 con entera resolución, echó los brazos a la espalda
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

And forgettest thou, De Bracy, that Robert Estoteville lies betwixt thee and Hull with all his forces, and that the Earl of Essex is gathering his followers?
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

“The Man of Ross,” each lisping babe replies.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

Let me introduce my wife—Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Eunice Littlefield Babbitt, Esquiress.”
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Ralph Dutton, Lady Mount-Temple, Mr. Tylee, Professor Ramsey, and the Rev. E. L. Berthon, and the one in the north chancel aisle erected to the memory of the wife of the Right Hon.
— from Bell's Cathedrals: A Short Account of Romsey Abbey A Description of the Fabric and Notes on the History of the Convent of SS. Mary & Ethelfleda by Perkins, Thomas, Rev.

It may be so in other and more constant countries, but in our fickle republic each last book has to fight its own way to public favor, much as if it had no sort of literary lineage.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays by William Dean Howells

Thus, in the eighteenth century, when nearly all the instructed, and all those of the uninstructed who were led by them, were lost in admiration of what is called civilisation, and of the marvels of modern science, literature, and philosophy, and while greatly overrating the amount of unlikeness [Pg 87] between the men of modern and those of ancient times, indulged the belief that the whole of the difference was in their own favour; with what a salutary shock did the paradoxes of Rousseau explode like bombshells in the midst, dislocating the compact mass of one-sided opinion, and forcing its elements to recombine in a better form and with additional ingredients.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Bancroft tried to get an act of parliament in order to render the real estate liable, but without success.
— from Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 1 of 3 by Henry Hallam

More than any other single man he is the author of the discovering movement of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries,—and by this movement India has been conquered, America repeopled, the world made clear, and the civilisation which the Roman Empire left behind has conquered or utterly overshadowed every one of its old rivals and superiors—Islam, India, China, Tartary.
— from Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. by C. Raymond (Charles Raymond) Beazley

La Richesse et le Bonheur ,[140] with which that library is about to enrich itself.
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

Robert E. Lee, born in Virginia, of Revolutionary stock, had won reputation as a soldier in the Mexican War.
— from Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer

In the same volume is a third romance, entitled LA BELLE HELAYNE, 1528, 4to.:-- Printed by the same printer , with a singular wood-cut frontispiece; in a gothic character not quite so handsome as in the two preceding pieces.
— from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

The chamber has two feet of perpendicular wall, and the sharp roof gives opportunity for two good lodging rooms, which may be partitioned off as convenience may require, each lighted by a window in the gables, and a dormer one in the roof, for the passage leading into them.
— from Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings by Lewis Falley Allen