You know Selby has got his claim allowed, and they say he has had a run of luck lately at Morrissey’s.”
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

The maidens wore robes of light linen, and the youths well woven shirts that were slightly oiled.
— from The Iliad by Homer

The general condition of life! is not one of want or famine, but rather of riches, of lavish luxuriance, and even of absurd prodigality,—where there is a struggle, it is a struggle for power.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

We therefore returned to the cottage, keeping a careful lookout with our fingers on the trigger, and hiding under the branches; but his wife, in spite of our entreaties, rushed on, leaping like a tigress.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

He foundered on the rock of life like all those who have not been early prepared for its rude struggles, who look at life through a mist, who do not know how to protect themselves, whose special aptitudes and faculties have not been developed from childhood, whose early training has not developed the rough energy needed for the battle of life or furnished them with tool or weapon.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The modern Rowardennan, on Loch Lomond at the foot of Ben Lomond, and a favorite starting=point for the ascent of that mountain.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

When Anna came in in her hat and cape, and her lovely hand rapidly swinging her parasol, and stood beside him, it was with a feeling of relief that Vronsky broke away from the plaintive eyes of Golenishtchev which fastened persistently upon him, and with a fresh rush of love looked at his charming companion, full of life and happiness.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Had she been different when I did see her, I should have made no complaint, but from the very first she was altered: my first reception was so unlike what I had hoped, that I had almost resolved on leaving London again directly.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Be it forgotten and dead, still its ray of light liveth and travelleth.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

She bids him, as she roams, declare The names of towns and hamlets there, Marks various trees that meet her eye, And many a brook that hurries by, And Janak's daughter seems to roam One little league away from home When Ráma or his brother speaks And gives the answer that she seeks.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Rubbing one little leg against the other once more, little Cacinella began to fly.
— from Verotchka's Tales by D. N. (Dmitrii Narkisovich) Mamin-Siberiak

Don Juan Bautista de Castro, before alluded to; Don Rafael Fernandez, also mentioned—and 21 noncommissioned officers, 5 soldiers of the Canarian battalion, 2 chasseurs, 4 militiamen, 1 militia artilleryman, 4 French auxiliaries, and 5 civilians.] and 28 wounded, [Footnote: Namely, 3 officers—Don Simon de Lara, severely wounded at the narrow part of the Mole, Don Dionisio Navarro, sub-lieutenant of the Provincial Regiment of La Laguna, and Don Josef Dugi, cadet of the Canarian battalion—25 noncommissioned officers, 5 men of the same battalion, 1 chasseur, 1 sergeant, 11 militiamen, 1 soldier of the Havana depôt, 1 ditto of Cuban ditto, 1 militia artilleryman, and 5 French auxiliaries.
— from To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

It is considered as the repository of legal lore, and the exponent of its applications.
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff

"Now, therefore," says the Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, and the chief civil executive officer of the United States, "in obedience to the high and solemn duties imposed upon me by the Constitution of the United States, and for the purpose of enabling the loyal people of said State (or States) to organize a State government, whereby justice may be established, domestic tranquillity restored, and loyal citizens protected in all their rights of life, liberty, and property, I do hereby appoint —— —— provisional Governor of the State" It will be here noticed that all the proceedings are undertaken for the sake of the "loyal" persons in the State.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

Above them, stretching away on either side, ran the two famous, highly ornamented galleries, with their row of long, low arches indicating the five compartments into which they were severally divided.
— from The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow by Anna Katharine Green

"It was me," he says, "who ripped open La Lamballe and tore her heart out....
— from The French Revolution - Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

"The scene of this work is laid among the upper ranks of London life, and executed with the skill and spirit of one well acquainted with its varying hues."— Lit.
— from The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Friedrich von Schlegel

Now, being fairly in, we will brave it through, and we think you may look to see us grow with each year, adding knowledge to wealth, and industrious habits to religious precepts and elevated sentiments, till we shall be prepared to enter upon the combined order, and, with our co-partners, who are now breast and heart with us, lead the kingdoms of the earth into the regions of light, liberty and love.'"
— from History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes

There were gas-lamps, and they sent a ripple of light like a sword-thrust along the gutter beside the banquette, where a pariah dog nosed a dead rat and was silhouetted.
— from Hilda: A Story of Calcutta by Sara Jeannette Duncan

Moreover, as we have already stated(8) the Alexandrian poetry had its established place in the instruction of the Italian youth; and thus reacted on Latin literature all the more, since the latter continued to be essentially dependent at all times on the Hellenic school-training.
— from The History of Rome, Book V The Establishment of the Military Monarchy by Theodor Mommsen