So, from the seas, exerts his radiant head The star by whom the lights of heav’n are led; Shakes from his rosy locks the pearly dews, Dispels the darkness, and the day renews.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

He spake, and with a plunge wrapped him about with the restless wave; and round him the dark water foamed in seething eddies and dashed against the hollow ship as it moved through the sea.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

He had, without my being aware of it, disputed, explained, quarrelled, and petitioned on my behalf, and thereby roused himself to a veritable enthusiasm for Tannhauser.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Hence, of recognized hallucinations, those coincident with death are 440 times more numerous than we should expect, if no causal relation obtained.’
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Toward you all, in America's name, I raise high the perpendicular hand, I make the signal, To remain after me in sight forever, For all the haunts and homes of men.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Thou never didst them wrong, nor no man wrong; And as the butcher takes away the calf, And binds the wretch, and beats it when it strays, Bearing it to the bloody slaughter-house, Even so, remorseless, have they borne him hence;
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The Professor had already stopped, with a ready half turn which brought his shoulders very near the other wall.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

They were returning across country after a long day’s outing with Otter, hunting and exploring on the wide uplands where certain streams tributary to their own River had their first small beginnings; and the shades of the short winter day were closing in on them, and they had still some distance to go.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

" "Perhaps the 'Trumpet' may rouse him to make a change, and some good may come of it all," said the Rector.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

But encouraged by his rare humanity towards us, (that could scarce think ourselves strangers, being his vowed and professed servants,) we would take the hardiness to propound it: humbly beseeching him, if he thought it not fit to be answered, that he would pardon it, though he rejected it.
— from New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

260 She set down packages of food, a dish of lentils with bread and wine; began to make ready the table, keeping her eyes averted, so Rodvard could not read her thinking (it came to him that he would not be the first Star-bearer she had met) as she talked rapidly, about the Service once more.
— from The Blue Star by Fletcher Pratt

Doubtless the daylight would reveal the track which we had taken, by showing the footprints in the soft mud of the shore where the rafts had touched; but by that time many miles would intervene between us and our foes, and all chance of pursuit would be impossible for the present.
— from Red Cloud, the Solitary Sioux: A Story of the Great Prairie by Butler, William Francis, Sir

Shortly after, on a fine day, he rode out to Brookline; and, as returning health threw over those hills a mantle of beauty that he had never seen before, they were immediately associated in his mind with the Panorama of Jerusalem, and then with the glories of the Jerusalem above.
— from Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of the Late Amos Lawrence; with a brief account of some incidents of his life by Amos Lawrence

At regular hours the sea retreated, and great spaces were left uncovered everywhere, as if the Channel was slowly drying up; then with the same lazy slowness, the waters rose again, and continued their everlasting coming and going, without any heed of the dead.
— from An Iceland Fisherman by Pierre Loti

Stout tanners seated beneath awnings were scraping ox-hides with their strong hands; shop-keepers sat in their booths, with piles of flints, steels, and powder before them; Armenians spread out their rich handkerchiefs; Tatars turned their kabobs upon spits; a Jew, with his head thrust forward, was filtering some corn-brandy from a cask.
— from Taras Bulba, and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

She was fretting and raising her temperature rapidly.
— from The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter

Alas! poor Richard, where rides he the while? York.
— from Elements of Criticism, Volume III. by Kames, Henry Home, Lord

Does everybody at the academy dress like that?” With such words did old Bulba greet his two sons, who had been absent for their education at the Royal Seminary of Kief, and had now returned home to their father.
— from Taras Bulba, and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

It was long after sundown on that same day when the anxious watchers on board the Nonsuch , anchored in that tiny unsuspected harbour, heard the roll and splash of oars sounding from the seaward of them, and were soon afterward greeted with a hail which told them that their comrades, as to whose safety they were beginning to feel somewhat anxious, were returning; and a few minutes later the boats were alongside and a general reunion had taken place.
— from The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer by Harry Collingwood

Many of the war vessels were slow-going craft, and the rest had to accommodate their speed to the leisurely rate of five or six knots.
— from John Call Dalton, M.D., U.S.V. by John Call Dalton