yo a los palacios subí, and up to the palaces, yo los claustros escalé, boarded cloisters, like galleys, y en todas partes dejé and wherever I sallied, memoria amarga de mí. left bitter memories, Ni reconocí sagrado, knew nothing holy.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

So says Glum Geirason, in the verses he composed about Harald, Gunhild's son:— "The foeman's terror, Harald bold, Had gained enough of yellow gold; Had Heimdal's teeth (1) enough in store, And understood twelve arts or more.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

We, as high as we make our shew, I am sure, are unable to set out another small fleete, if this should be worsted.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

She had reserved this last evening for her father, and they sat alone under the plane-tree.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

We think that there are mysteries in the sky and under the water and in the plants which grow.
— from Anthem by Ayn Rand

I watched from my window this sentimental boy, who walked with thoughtful steps, his hands behind his back, his head bent, and at times stopping to raise his eyes as if he could see and understand things that were not comprehensible at his age.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

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— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

When we reached Tenedos we offered sacrifices to the gods, for we were longing to get home; cruel Jove, however, did not yet mean that we should do so, and raised a second quarrel in the course of which some among us turned their ships back again, and sailed away under Ulysses to make their peace with Agamemnon; but I, and all the ships that were with me pressed forward, for I saw that mischief was brewing.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

This escape was so singular and unexpected, that I could hardly believe in its reality; though real it was, to all intents and purposes.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

And he bore a mighty twi-bill, as he waded the fight-sheaves through, And stood face to face with Sigmund, and upheaved the bill to smite.
— from The Story of Sigurd the Volsung by William Morris

A T-shape incision is made in the stock, and under the bark the bud is inserted ( Fig. 269 ); then the wound is tightly bound with soft cord or bast ( Fig. 270 ).
— from Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets Being a selection, with revision, from the teachers' leaflets, home nature-study lessons, junior naturalist monthlies and other publications from the College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1896-1904 by New York State College of Agriculture

Vanyusha was in the porch heating the samovar, and using the leg of a long boot instead of bellows.
— from The Cossacks: A Tale of 1852 by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Very gross extortion has been practised and even yet there are many mining camps which are so absolutely under the control of these concerns that properties which should pay well, under just and favorable conditions, are forced to remain idle.
— from The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines by Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph) Hoskin

Awaking at last, I felt the bed over and found that it had been despoiled of its treasure: then, by all that lovers hold dear, I swear I was on the verge of transfixing them both with my sword and uniting their sleep with death.
— from The Satyricon — Volume 03: Encolpius and His Companions by Petronius Arbiter

Yet in spite of this shame he still looked splendid and untamed: though his arms were bound to a pinion behind his back, his broad chest was not sunken, and he held himself very erect with that leonine head of his thrown well back and a smile of defiance, almost of triumph, sat upon every line of his face.
— from The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Notwithstanding the valor of the French and Americans in the successive assaults upon the works, they were obliged to retire with loss, rendered still more lamentable by the fall of the brave Pulaski, who fought in America for the liberty which had been crushed in his own land.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

Early next morning I wrote to her father that his daughter had resolved not to leave her lover, who was only slightly wounded, that they were in perfect safety and under the protection of the law at Chamberi, and finally that having heard their story, and judging them to be well matched, I could only approve of the course they had taken.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 18: Return to Naples by Giacomo Casanova