I am going to the world's end to visit Oceanus (from whom all we gods proceed) and mother Tethys: they received me in their house, took care of me, and brought me up, having taken me over from Rhaea when Jove imprisoned great Saturn in the depths that are under earth and sea.
— from The Iliad by Homer

"It doesn't really matter in the least," Chia Cheng continued; "so that there's no necessity of changing it; but it's evident that Pao-yü doesn't apply his mind to legitimate pursuits, but mainly devotes his energies to such voluptuous expressions and wanton verses!"
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye, which showed the passion that had taken root, and where the shadow of the growing tree would fall.
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

His character was not unkind, all things considered; it might have been a very kind one indeed, if he had only made some round mistake in the arithmetic that balanced it, years ago.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

The sun had set the evening before in a red mist, in the midst of the phosphorescent scintillations of the ocean.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

The result of this was that the Duke of York commanded Pepys to collect evidence against Scott, and he accordingly brought together a great number of depositions and information as to his dishonest proceedings in New England, Long Island, Barbadoes, France, Holland, and England, and these papers are preserved among the Rawlinson Manuscripts in the Bodleian.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The rush for the doors and windows was terrific, and many of the most robust men in the room fainted outright through sheer horror.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Shortly after the 2d of December under the title of Mixed Commissions, the police substituted itself for justice, drew up judgments, pronounced sentences, violated every law judicially without the regular magistracy interposing the slightest obstacle to this irregular magistracy: Justice allowed the police to do what it liked with the satisfied look of a team of horses which had just been relieved.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

The absurdity of Brown’s remark moved Ivan to open taunts.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Hawkins said: “Washington, my boy, what will you do when you get to be one of the richest men in the world?”
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

[45] Seeing then that we do therefore receive and believe the Scriptures because they proceeded from the Spirit, so the very same Reason is the Spirit more Originally and Principally the Rule, according to the received Maxim in the Schools, Propter quod unumquodque est tale, illud ipsum est magis tale : That for which a Thing is such, that Thing itself is more such.
— from An Apology for the True Christian Divinity Being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers by Robert Barclay

He did not rush madly into the station, but paused a moment, and then walked in quietly, thinking that if his quest should be successful he must not frighten the excitable girl.
— from The Clue by Carolyn Wells

What Mr Hicks really maintains is that a habit which is innocent in men is vicious in women.
— from Windfalls by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner

From this new platform, the pyramid will rise majestically in the air, and of it we already discover thirteen floors (the pyramid will be completed with one more), each of four metres fifty centimetres, that is to say a height of fifty eight metres, or about one hundred and eighty feet.
— from Rouen, Its History and Monuments A Guide to Strangers by Théodore Licquet

[Pg 55] for each row; put an inch of rich mould in the bottom; set the plants on the mould, with the roots spread naturally, with the ends pointing a little downward.
— from Soil Culture Containing a Comprehensive View of Agriculture, Horticulture, Pomology, Domestic Animals, Rural Economy, and Agricultural Literature by J. H. Walden

When the symptoms commence with much shivering, and the skin early assumes a hot, dry character, the appearance of the rash will be facilitated, and all the other symptoms rendered milder, if the patient is put into a warm bath, and kept in the water for about three minutes.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

When I got to the hospital they stripped me for a prize fight, put me on a table made of glass, and rolled me into the operating room, gave me chloroform and when they thought I was all in, they took an axe and chopped me.
— from Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

If you take a young tern in your hand and lay it upon its back on the sand it makes no attempt to right itself, but remains motionless in that attitude, looking for all the world like a trussed chicken; but if you turn your back upon it, it will take to its little legs and run, with considerable speed, to the water, to which it takes just as a duck does, its feet being webbed at all stages of its existence.
— from Jungle Folk: Indian Natural History Sketches by Douglas Dewar

It had been a day of surprises, and events proceeded very rapidly, mostly in the direction of disappointments.
— from The Stolen Statesman: Being the Story of a Hushed Up Mystery by William Le Queux

Von Mackensen's right moved in the direction of Gorlice.
— from History of the World War, Vol. 3 by Richard Joseph Beamish