The unreaped corn was scorched and shed its grain.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Whether such a state is governed by Gods or sons of Gods, one, or more than one, happy are the men who, living after this manner, dwell there; and therefore to this we are to look for the pattern of the state, and to cling to this, and to seek with all our might for one which is like this.
— from Laws by Plato

It is true that I was familiar with all literary braille in common use in this country—English, American, and New York Point; but the various signs and symbols in geometry and algebra in the three systems are very different, and I had used only the English braille in my algebra.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

With these words, the speaker tapped himself on the waistcoat to intimate that he was the Jem Groves so highly eulogized; sparred scientifically at a counterfeit Jem Groves, who was sparring at society in general from a black frame over the chimney-piece; and, applying a half-emptied glass of spirits and water to his lips, drank Jem Groves’s health.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Sol = the poem Solomon and Saturn, in Gr (if in italics, the reference is sometimes to the prose version, ed.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

He heaved a deep sigh and said, "I grieve for myself and for us all; I grieve that I shall have to forgo the marriage, but I do not care nearly so much about this, for there are plenty of other women in Ithaca and elsewhere; what I feel most is the fact of our being so inferior to Ulysses in strength that we cannot string his bow.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

In summe, all singularity if Good, they attributed to the Spirit of God; and if Evill, to some Daemon, but a kakodaimen, an Evill Daemon, that is, a Devill.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

For never would he have welcomed the Aeolid Phrixus as a guest in his halls, in spite of his sore need, Phrixus, who surpassed all strangers in gentleness and fear of the gods, had not Zeus himself sent Hermes his messenger down from heaven, so that he might meet with a friendly host; much less would pirates coming to his land be let go scatheless for long, men whose care it was to lift their hands and seize the goods of others, and to weave secret webs of guile, and harry the steadings of herdsmen with ill-sounding forays.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

For this reason Grassou, usually called Fougeres by his comrades, obtained their warm support and succeeded in getting admission into the Salon of 1829, for his "Toilet of a Condemned Chouan," a very mediocre painting palpably along the lines of Gerard Dow.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Lo, on a time, I gayly paced The Sabine confines shady, And sung in glee of Lalage, My own and dearest lady; And as I sung, a monster wolf Slunk through the thicket from me; But for that song, as I strolled along, He would have overcome me!
— from Echoes from the Sabine Farm by Horace

Tell me, Charlie—tell me; did it creep down the stairs in your wake—bloody and horrible; did you hear its feet pattering on the stones in quiet streets; did you look over your shoulder, and see its glazing eyes staring [Pg 260] at you—its mouth with the drooping jaw striving to scream 'Murder!'
— from Tinman by Tom Gallon

But whenever the Wound is not attended with any of these Circumstances; when it affects only the Skin, the fat Membrane beneath it, the fleshy Parts and the small Vessels, it may be easily and simply dressed without such Assistance; since, in general, all that is truly necessary in such Cases is, to defend the Wound from the Impressions of the Air; and yet not so, as to give any material Obstruction to the Discharge of the Matter, that is to issue from the Wound.
— from Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

But everybody was full of attentions and kindnesses, and these brought cheer back into my life, and were the right medicine to help a convalescent swiftly up toward health and strength again; so I gained fast.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 5. by Mark Twain

“But I didn’t know then that your husband would have such a success in Germany.”
— from The Lion's Share by Arnold Bennett

To this we may add, that they are in a great measure deprived of their Power and Spring, and Sensation in general is not near so strong and lively.
— from A Collection of Chirurgical Tracts by William Beckett

"Auld Rymer's race Lyes in this place," it says; and somehow it gave one a peg to hang one's faith upon.
— from Highways and Byways in the Border Illustrated by Andrew Lang