In a sacred enclosure they were shown a row of dead or seemingly dead men lying on the ground, their bodies cut open and covered with blood, their entrails protruding.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The room itself was familiar enough, but night makes almost any chamber eerie, and especially such a room of detention as this where the mortal parts of the unburied might—almost be supposed to be, visited, on the sighing night winds, by the wandering spirits of their late tenants.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

When it was over Madame de Chauvelin thanked me, and told me that she should always remember our dancing together at Soleure, and that she hoped I would dance again with her at her own house.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

He could not run such a risk of discovery again.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

But three knocks were heard on the stage, a rolling of drums began, the brass instruments played some chords, and the curtain rising, discovered a country-scene.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Shine , a row, or disturbance.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

The laws of the state are rules of duty.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Posterity, forgetting some and reprinting others, declares the lucky numbers.
— from On Love by Stendhal

"Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.
— from The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham

[ Gavel , Sax., a rent or duty,] a periodical payment of rent.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Wordsworth has been accused of excessive penuriousness, of overwhelming conceit, and of being slovenly and regardless of dress.
— from Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold

But as in the latter genus, here also the few observed species are very different, perhaps of different origin, and may be afterwards better separated as representatives of diverse genera.
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel

That was the beginning of the wattle fences, the cobble pave, the brown roof beams, the cunningly wrought fabrics that gave to his pictures such a richness of decorative effect.
— from The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories by Willa Cather

Of those that followed some were mounted on camels, some rode in sledges drawn by various beasts, such as reindeer, oxen, dogs, goats, and hogs.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 08 (of 15), Russian by Charles Morris

We have been in Europe five and a half weeks and are only just beginning to see a ray of daylight on our path.
— from The Letters of William James, Vol. 1 by William James

"Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.
— from The Prophet Ezekiel: An Analytical Exposition by Arno Clemens Gaebelein