Old Matthew Maule, especially, was known to have as little hesitation or difficulty in rising out of his grave as an ordinary man in getting out of bed, and was as often seen at midnight as living people at noonday.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

How, After The Death Of Antiochus, Hyrcanus Made An Expedition Against Syria, And Made A League With The Romans.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

She begged me to stay at Milan as long as possible, not only to make her cousin happy, but for her sake as well, since without me she could not enjoy the marquis’s society in private, and while her father was alive he would never dare to come openly to the house.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

An idealization of some such a man as Leonardo da Vinci would be a more valuable beacon to you at present.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Whoever was the warrior, he must be To fame no stranger, nor perhaps to me: Who (so the gods and so the Fates ordain'd) Have wander'd many a sea, and many a land."
— from The Odyssey by Homer

489 Massacre of prisoners 496 Death of Louis XVI and other members of the Royal Family 499 Dreadful scenes in La Vendée 501 Scenes at Marseilles and Lyons 501 The installation of the Goddess of Reason 506 Fall of Danton, Robespierre, Marat and other Jacobins 508 [15] BOOK OF MARTYRS CHAPTER I. HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN MARTYRS TO THE FIRST GENERAL PERSECUTION UNDER NERO.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

In August, 1852, the Cambrian Archæological Association held its sixth annual meeting at Ludlow, under the Presidency of Hon.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

She arose mechanically and looked in the glass at herself.
— from The Nine-Tenths by James Oppenheim

Her sails are many, and, like the cutter, she is permitted to carry clouds of canvas in a race.
— from The Book of the Ocean by Ernest Ingersoll

After we had dug a trench of about five feet in depth around the rod, the old man, by signs and motions asked leave of absence, and went to the house to inquire of the son the cause of our disappointment.
— from Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet by Frederick Marryat

From where he sat, Fairfax struck a match and lit the candle.
— from Fairfax and His Pride: A Novel by Marie Van Vorst

We then talked of the present crisis, when to my no small amazement she said that she saw no reason now why it should not be made up, and he should not remain, that he left the Government with regret, liked his office, and had no wish to quit his colleagues, but could not consent to such a measure as Lord John had proposed.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 3 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 2) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1852 to 1860 by Charles Greville

My mem'ry ain't so good no more, but Charley was oldes', den come Dolly and Jennie and Susie and me and Laura.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. Texas Narratives, Part 2 by United States. Work Projects Administration

Stopping a moment, and looking steadily at me and those in the immediate vicinity, he exclaimed, most emphatically: "Emanuel Swedenborg has done the Christian Church an immense service!
— from Personal Experience of a Physician by John Ellis

It is conceded by some writers that mental images or representations can be formed without any connection with sound, and may at least serve for thought, though not for expression.
— from Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Garrick Mallery

From the shelter of a group of trees he stood a moment and looked after the retreating figure.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.