Poignant, after having resisted in vain, at last drew his sword, and, having easily made himself master of La Fontaine's, demanded the cause of the quarrel.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

Nor shall great Hector cease the rage of fight, The navy flaming, and thy Greeks in flight, Even till the day when certain fates ordain That stern Achilles (his Patroclus slain) Shall rise in vengeance, and lay waste the plain.
— from The Iliad by Homer

The senate did not deign to return an answer to the extravagant memoir of the ambassador, but sent me word I might remain in Venice as long as I thought proper, without making myself uneasy about the attempts of a madman.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Farinelli's career in Italy was an unbroken success, and he was enthusiastically received in Vienna and London.
— from Life of Mozart, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Otto Jahn

Of course the reasoning is varied a little, to suit circumstances, and to make it meet the facts.
— from The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

Here, grandeur prevails over beauty; the trees, if not so verdant, excel in size and majesty; the mountains, in height; the rivers, in volume and length; while the glaciers are without comparison in magnitude and power.
— from The New Eldorado: A Summer Journey to Alaska by Maturin Murray Ballou

I glance at myself in one of the long mirrors that line the walls, and seeing therein a slender figure, robed in velvet and literally flashing with diamonds, I appear good in my eyes, and feel a self-satisfied smirk stealing over my countenance.
— from Phyllis by Duchess

Near the latter gate the polygonal wall is nearly fifteen feet in height, and on one great block may be read in very ancient letters the words PED.
— from Old Rome: A Handbook to the Ruins of the City and the Campagna by Robert Burn

As to the rest he generally painted for profit; painting heads of old men, philosophers, and anchorets, for which he is very remarkable in Venetian and Lombard collections.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 5 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Lanzi