Such a prelate was Ethelwald, Bishop of Winchester, in the reign of King Edgar, about the year of Christ 963: he in a great famine sold away all the sacred vessels of his church for to relieve the almost starved people, saying that there was no reason that the senseless temples of God should abound in riches, and lively temples of the Holy Ghost to lack it.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

How grateful the inhabitants of Granite House then were to Heaven for having prepared for them this solid and immovable retreat!
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

And so am I revenged.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

But as soon as I returned, I called upon him to pay him what he considered his due.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

Hovering upon the Waters; what they met Solid or slimie, as in raging Sea Tost up and down, together crowded drove From each side shoaling towards the mouth of Hell.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Had this horse been still living, but in some degree rare, no naturalist would have felt the least surprise at its rarity; for rarity is the attribute of a vast number of species of all classes, in all countries.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

And as the bird of Jupiter, 84 when he has espied on the silent plain a serpent exposing its livid back to the sun, seizes it behind; and lest it should turn upon him its raging mouth, fixes his greedy talons in its scaly neck; so did the winged hero , in his rapid flight through the yielding air , press the back of the monster, and the descendant of Inachus thrust his sword up to the very hilt in its right shoulder, as it roared aloud.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

More easily wouldst thou cast thy eyes upon the sun at its rising than behold that blazing splendour.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

But my heart sunk within me as with bitter sickness, and I refrained.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

His one and only passion was for his daughter, and she, with her somewhat boyish appearance, looked so robust that it was hard to restrain a smile when one saw the precautions her father used to take for her health, with spare shawls always in readiness to wrap around her shoulders.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Hans kicked and screamed, and I rushed in shouting, causing them to rise in a great, flapping cloud that presently vanished this way and that.
— from Marie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

With my aunt I had never ventured to discuss anything; I reverenced her too much for that; she spoke, and I received all she said.
— from The Unclassed by George Gissing

—These terms are often employed to designate the total internal loss of a dynamo due to the combined effect of eddy currents and hysteresis, but as the losses due to the former are governed by laws totally different from those applicable to the latter, special analysis is required to separate them.
— from Hawkins Electrical Guide v. 02 (of 10) Questions, Answers, & Illustrations, A progressive course of study for engineers, electricians, students and those desiring to acquire a working knowledge of electricity and its applications by N. (Nehemiah) Hawkins

The moral law has its sanction and its reason in itself.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

" Mrs. Douglas laughed softly as if remembering something precious.
— from Ann and Her Mother by O. Douglas

It quieted even the noisy party who were bent on climbing the tower, to catch a view, such as is rarely equaled, of the picturesque old city and its beautiful bay.
— from The Laurel Bush: An Old-Fashioned Love Story by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

It was a sad spectacle, and Isla rose with courage to the idea of working some improvement.
— from The Last of Their Race by Annie S. Swan