Meantime, for that one beholding instant, Tashtego’s mast-head hammer remained suspended in his hand; and the red flag, half-wrapping him as with a plaid, then streamed itself straight out from him, as his own forward-flowing heart; while Starbuck and Stubb, standing upon the bowsprit beneath, caught sight of the down-coming monster just as soon as he.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

My lord, this is a poor mad soul, and she says up and down the town that her eldest son is like you.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And joyous of the sudden stay Of Alfred's routed few, Sat one upon a stone to sigh, And some slipped up the road to fly, Till Alfred in the fern hard by Set horn to mouth and blew.
— from The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The herd paused for an instant at the edge of the slope, but Akela gave tongue in the full hunting-yell, and they pitched over one after the other, just as steamers shoot rapids, the sand and stones spurting up round them.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Spenser leaves the fight between Sansloy and Sir Satyrane unfinished.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

I saw a shape swim upward through that air.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

p. 175 4 Across the sky the daylight crept, And birds grew garrulous in the grove, And on my marriage-morn I slept A soft sleep, undisturb’d by love.
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

The Business was not yet done, the Ship remained, and it was possible one or other might come into the River, that might be acquainted with her, and so discover the Roguery; but Teach thought of a Contrivance to prevent this, for, upon a Pretence that she was leaky, and that she might sink, and so stop up the Mouth of the Inlet or Cove where she lay, he obtained an Order from the Governor, to bring her out into the River, and set her on Fire, which was accordingly executed, and she was burnt down to the Water’s Edge, her Bottom sunk, and with it, their Fears of her ever rising in Judgment against them.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

she said, as she sat up one day in her boudoir and nestled close to him, "oh, papa, how could I ever think so ill of him, of him who is everything that is good and noble?
— from The Silent Shore: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

Her brain was hungry, her life was stagnant, and she seized upon these sociological problems which Holman Sommers had placed before her, and worried over them, and wondered where Holman Sommers had learned so much about things she had never heard of.
— from Starr, of the Desert by B. M. Bower

It's beautiful to look at, but dangerous to trifle with, and,"—here she smiled at her own earnestness for a second as she started up the stairs—"and here endeth the first lesson, my Lord of Stair!"
— from Nancy Stair: A Novel by Elinor Macartney Lane

She wished to fall asleep again, to enter into the region of oblivion, but the habit of fear overcame sleepiness, and she sat up and looked round, drawing her feet under her.
— from Resurrection by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Then, as one who lives alone in the country, far from any neighbor, hides a brand as fire-seed in the ashes to save himself from having to get a light elsewhere, even so did Ulysses cover himself up with leaves; and Minerva shed a sweet sleep upon his eyes, closed his eyelids, and made him lose all memories of his sorrows.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

Jay pounced upon Missy, and nearly threw her down; she looked slight and small, stretching up her arm to a high branch of the vine, and the little ruffian probably felt his superiority and used it.
— from Missy: A Novel by Miriam Coles Harris

We had landed in Italy in a rain storm and we left the land of sunshine and soft skies under the same unpleasant conditions.
— from A Ball Player's Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson by Adrian Constantine Anson

He noticed quickly as soon as she stood under the light that her eyes were red and swollen, and that there was a most unusual air about her of gentleness and dejection.
— from The Sins of the Children: A Novel by Cosmo Hamilton