I touched her, and I saw the same as she did, the person just dead, whom I clearly recognized.’
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

But in my childhood a strange and senseless delusion came over me and persuaded me to war against my belly, so that I do not allow it to fill itself with a great quantity of food.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

In which yet trickling blood, and gobbets raw Of late devoured bodies did appeare, That sight thereof bred cold congealed feare: Which to increase, and as atonce to kill, 115 A cloud of smoothering smoke and sulphure seare, Out of his stinking gorge forth steemed still, That all the ayre about with smoke and stench did fill.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

And yet so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their days, surviving perils past, Melt to calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow and supineness, and so die; Even as a flame unfed, which runs to waste With its own flickering, or a sword laid by, Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Thus Mr Adams and she discoursed, till they came opposite to a great house which stood at some distance from the road: a lady in the coach, spying it, cried, "Yonder lives the unfortunate Leonora, if one can justly call a woman unfortunate whom we must own at the same time guilty and the author of her own calamity."
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

Nay rather such a sophist differs very little at all from the bird described in Homer, 271 offering his scholars like it whatever he has got, and as it feeds its callow young from its own mouth, "though it goes ill with itself," so he gets no advantage or food from what he has got for himself.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

I turned down the gas again, stepped out of the window on the cistern cover, very softly lowered the sash, and sat down, secure and invisible, but quivering with anger, to watch events.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

[4533] brethren in affliction, ( [4534] acerba calamitatum societas, diversi etiam ingenii homines conjungit ) affinity, or some such accidental occasion, though they cannot agree amongst themselves, they will stick together like burrs, and bold against a third; so after some discontinuance, or death, enmity ceaseth; or in a foreign place: Pascitur in vivis livor, post fata quiescit: Et cecidere odia, et tristes mors obruit iras.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

ἐγόγγυσα, to speak privately and in a low voice, mutter, Jno. 7.32; to utter secret and sullen discontent, express indignant complaint, murmer, grumble, Mat. 20.11.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

During a nightmare he saw a small demon fantastically dressed in red trousers, with a shoe on one foot but none on the other, and a shoe hanging from his girdle.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Had it lived long, I do not know Whether it, too, might have done so As Sylvio did; his gifts might be Perhaps as false, or more, than he.
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

He lived at Hampton Court, the old palace of Cardinal Wolsey, in simple and sober dignity; nor was debauchery or riot seen at his court.
— from A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord

A boy from the Café Maure brought us coffee, cleared the remains of our supper from the table, and presently muttered some Arab salutation, departed, and was lost in the wind.
— from The Desert Drum 1905 by Robert Hichens

SEE A SCHOOL DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1963 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

They’ll take a house of their own, no doubt; and she’ll probably entertain—very quietly, I daresay; still, a small dinner now and then gives a very excellent tone to the school in its own way.
— from Philistia by Grant Allen

Then we proceeded to the old Academy of Music on Bank Street, and entering, went upstairs, and just as we reached the top step a small dark man hurried across the hall and Blanche called quickly: "Oh, Mr. Ellsler—Mr. Ellsler!
— from Life on the Stage: My Personal Experiences and Recollections by Clara Morris

“And my father, madame?” “Your father allows him to act as he pleases; indeed, he feels the force of what your brother says, and so does my brother-in-law, who has given his assent, as commanding officer, to your brother’s exchange.
— from Valerie by Frederick Marryat