The blood, too, as poisonous as the froth, poured from the Uktena’s wound and down the slope in a dark stream, but it ran into the trench and left him unharmed.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The officer in command steps down from the road in to the amphitheatre; looks hard at the brigands; and then inquiringly at Tanner.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

I never read this divine description but that, methinks, I there see human folly and vanity represented in their true and lively colours.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

For there are in all three things about which every man has an interest; and the interest about money, when rightly regarded, is the third and lowest of them: midway comes the interest of the body; and, first of all, that of the soul; and the state which we are describing will have been rightly constituted if it ordains honours according to this scale.
— from Laws by Plato

He wishes to have his recitative in the third act lengthened a couple of lines, which, owing to the chiaro oscuro and his being a good actor, will have a capital effect.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

General Lee's great influence throughout the whole South caused his example to be followed, and to-day the result is that the armies lately under his leadership are at their homes, desiring peace and quiet, and their arms are in the hands of our ordnance officers.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

"'I don't want a consideration,' I smiled; 'tell me what's the favour you seek?' "'We ask you,' she replied instantly, 'to take a letter to the French Ambassador and tell him that it is the letter Madame Durrand gave you in New York, and that it has just been returned to you by the American State Department.' "'Have you the letter with you?'
— from The Cab of the Sleeping Horse by John Reed Scott

In October, 1902, many of the inhabitants of Belait and Tutong, unable to continue the struggle, having sought a refuge in the Trusan and Limbang rivers, and the Sultan being wearied into granting an amnesty on the payment of a heavy fine, those remaining surrendered; their principal chiefs, however, the Datus Kalim and De Gadong, with their people, elected to place themselves under Sarawak rule by also moving into the Limbang.
— from A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908 by C. A. Bampfylde

“There is a resemblance, I trust, to a living person, for I had one in my mind.”
— from The Guardian Angel by Oliver Wendell Holmes

She told us to measure the silks and ribbons in that tray, and leave it in the hall.
— from Two Years in the Forbidden City by Princess Der Ling

"There is a resemblance, I trust, to a living person, for I had one in my mind."
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

In other words I grow them in an orchard house, and the result is that they are laden with luscious fruit.”
— from The Rosery Folk by George Manville Fenn

The various episodes in the life of the god were made the subject of solemn representations in the temple, and little by little the performance of the obligatory and non-obligatory services in connection with them occupied, in certain temples, the greater part of the time of the priests.
— from Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir

If you are not well equipped for a pitched battle, the only way to make him retreat is to take a long sharp-pointed pole for a spear and rush toward him.
— from Indian Boyhood by Charles Alexander Eastman

Writing on a July day from his office in Whitehall, he says, after speaking of the heat of the weather,—"Time has often been compared to a river: if the Thames at London represent the stream of traditional wisdom, the comparison will indeed be of an ill odor; the accumulated wisdom of the past will be proved upon analogy to be as it were the collected sewage of the centuries; and the great problem, how to get rid of it."
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

"I can read in the Testament a little.
— from Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson