But, unfortunately, Demi's most unconquerable prejudice was against going to bed, and that night he decided to go on a rampage; so poor Meg sung and rocked, told stories and tried every sleep-provoking wile she could devise, but all in vain, the big eyes wouldn't shut; and long after Daisy had gone to byelow, like the chubby little bunch of good-nature she was, naughty Demi lay staring at the light, with the most discouragingly wide-awake expression of countenance.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

And with your own blood and the foeman’s dyed The sandy soil and the encircling sea.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The wisdom of the Saxons, Norman valour, the state-craft of the Tudors, the national sympathies of the Stuarts, the spirit of the latter Guelphs struggling against their enslaved sovereignty,—these are the high qualities, that for a thousand years have secured thy national developement.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The eye that sees all things else sees not itself.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

If the body has been cremated, a watch is kept at the burning ground for five days by Pānans, who beat drums all night to scare away the evil spirits which haunt such spots.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

So says Arnor, the earls' skald:— "The king, whose name would ill-doers scare, The gold-tipped arrow would not spare.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

The children gave a little start, and their eyes spread themselves wide open and remained so during a speechless half minute.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

that in earnest, ‘tis a wonder how it can subsist: “Armati terram exercent, semperque recentes Convectare juvat praedas; et vivere rapto.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

So says Arnor, the earls' skald:— "At Helganes—so goes the tale— The brave wolf-feeder, under sail, Made many an ocean-elk (1) his prey, Seized many a ship ere break of day.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

That evening, when Mary and Martha had retired to their apartments, the former, who had been very silent all the evening, said: "I cannot understand, mother, why John speaks so coldly of the doings of this brave leader; and why he was almost angry at our praises of him.
— from For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Truth met with the same fate, after having wandered through the world, sometimes among the Egyptians, sometimes among the Greeks, sometimes among the Romans, and sometimes even among the Chinese; she was constrained, at length, to retire to the house of a poor mute, who yet, by false and equivocal signs, gave her to understand that he wished to get rid of her company.
— from The Visions of Quevedo by Francisco de Quevedo

I knew the moon swam in the sky, And the earth swam in the moon; I went outside in the grass to lie, To yield to the deadly swoon.
— from The House of the Trees & Other Poems by A. Ethelwyn Wetherald

The motion of the engines had ceased, the puffing of the escaping steam was stilled, and the enveloping silence closed upon us, and such silence it was!
— from Life on the Mississippi, Part 12. by Mark Twain

The whole atmosphere seemed to her charged with a strenuous solemnity, as though everything said, 'We have power—great power.'
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

The curtain was torn to one side and the Emperor stepped out into the room.
— from The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard by Arthur Conan Doyle

At the bottom, on the same side as the existing swallet, was the broad and lofty arch of a cave, which went only a few yards in, otherwise it would have broken through the escarpment.
— from The Netherworld of Mendip Explorations in the great caverns of Somerset, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and elsewhere by Ernest A. (Ernest Albert) Baker