Bright tricksy children—oh, I pray Come back and sing and dance away, And chatter too—sometimes you may, A giddy group, a big book seize—
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

1806 as three of the party was unabled to row from the State of their eyes we found it necessary to leave one of our Crafts and divide the men into the other Canoes, we left the two Canoes lashed together which I had made high up the River Rochejhone, those Canoes we Set a drift and a little after day light we Set out and proceeded on very well.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Will any man do so when it is written of him, "And he begat sons and daughters, and all the days of Seth were 912 years, and he died?"
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

If Saturn is a God, then must his father, Cœlus, be one too, and so must the parents of Cœlus, which are the Sky and Day, as also their brothers and sisters, which by ancient genealogists are 334 thus named: Love, Deceit, Fear, Labor, Envy, Fate, Old Age, Death, Darkness, Misery, Lamentation, Favor, Fraud, Obstinacy, the Destinies, the Hesperides, and Dreams; all which are the offspring of Erebus and Night.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing less would bring a man out on such a day and at such an hour.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

(But that you may not think, if you hear only about his achievements and successes in war, that the Emperor is less well endowed for pursuits that are loftier and rightly considered of more importance, I mean public speaking and deliberations and all those affairs in which judgment combined with intelligence and prudence take the helm, consider the case of Odysseus and Nestor, who are so highly praised in the poem; and if you find that the Emperor is inferior to them in any respect, put that down to his panegyrists, but we should rather in fairness concede that he is far superior.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Rather, it takes the form of separation and desertion after a family group has been formed.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

So the glittering assemblage rose with one accord--on the chairs--even on the tables, and the luckless professors of a different creed were compelled to follow suit, as small stones are dashed along at the mercy of the breakers.
— from My Lords of Strogue, Vol. 2 (of 3) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

“Just think of the things here promised, a home, a place in God’s house, a position better than that even of sons and daughters, and a name never to be forgotten.
— from What Norman Saw in the West by Anonymous

As these two kinds of sensations are different, and as the mind possesses the faculty of comparing and forming ideas from them, our consciousness of existence is the more certain and extensive, as remembrance more frequently and copiously recalls past things and occurrences; and as by our reflections we compare and combine them with those past and present occurrences.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 05 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

Maggie's heart began to beat with reawakened alarm at this new proposition; but she was silent,–one course seemed as difficult as another.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

By this daily practice accuracy of direction, quickness, and strength are developed, and a soldier is accustomed to [Pg 12] using the bayonet under conditions which approximate to actual fighting.
— from Bayonet Training Manual Used by the British Forces by Anonymous

Finally, after considerable haggling, Mr. Graham agreed to pay his son a dollar and a half a week, in cash, besides board and clothes.
— from Do and Dare — a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Lifebuoys were thrown to him and the two boats quickly lowered, but the wind blew strong, the sea ran high with rain and mist so that it was impossible to see any distance and after pulling for nearly an hour they returned with the sad report that they could see nothing of him.
— from The Colonial Clippers by Basil Lubbock

From the Grand Signor, a diamond aigrette and rich pelisse, valued at £3,000.
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Frederick Whymper

There was no especial anxiety in his tones, which were slow and distinct and a trifle sharp.
— from Mary Louise Solves a Mystery by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum