If no regard thy suffering country claim, Hear thy own glory, and the voice of fame: For now that chief, whose unresisted ire Made nations tremble, and whole hosts retire, Proud Hector, now, the unequal fight demands, And only triumphs to deserve thy hands.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Then, before she could collect her thoughts, Henchard went out from her rooms, and departed from the house by the back way as he had come; and she saw him no more.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

I saw him lying on a bed,” said she, making a gesture with her hand and a lifted finger at each detail, “and that he had his eyes closed and was covered just with a pink quilt, and that his hands were folded,” she concluded, convincing herself that the details she had just seen were exactly what she had seen in the mirror.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Still candour compelled him to admit he had washed his wife’s undergarments when soiled in Holles street and women would and did too a man’s similar garments initialled with Bewley and Draper’s marking ink (hers were, that is) if they really loved him, that is to say, love me, love my dirty shirt.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

“Come,” said Charmolue, “carry her to the cart, and make an end of it.”
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

I do not speak upon this subject as an amateur, nor, I may add, as a popular lecturer, but I speak as one whose scientific conscience compels him to adhere closely to facts, when I say that Mr. Waldron is very wrong in supposing that because he has never himself seen a so-called prehistoric animal, therefore these creatures no longer exist.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

She called Chanticleer, his two wives, and the venerable chicken, and threw them some crumbs of bread from the breakfast-table.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The first arrangement was often impossible, for not many a widow with a family of small children could hope to sustain herself in such a country, beautiful and fertile but at that time wild and practically unbroken.
— from With Sully into the Sioux Land by Joseph Mills Hanson

"We become sure," continues Canon Holland, "that both above and below our normal consciousness we are in touch with mysteries that travel far, and that we lie open to spiritual acts done unto us from a far distance, that we assimilate intimations and intuitions that reach us by inexplicable channels.
— from The Life Radiant by Lilian Whiting

It was with considerable difficulty that she could coax him to take the medicines the doctor had ordered.
— from Oscar The Boy Who Had His Own Way by Walter Aimwell

When the first Spanish conquerors came hither, they were at once struck by the difference between these works and those of the Incas which they had seen at Cuzco and elsewhere in Peru.
— from South America: Observations and Impressions New edition corrected and revised by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

In her first excitement Martha Figman had failed to notice his absence, but had made for the boat as fast as she could, carrying her three-year-old child.
— from Cape Breton Tales by Harry James Smith

He is not so wicked as he seems, and I shall certainly call him Texas."
— from All Aboard: A Story for Girls by Fannie E. (Fannie Ellsworth) Newberry

She desired me to keep you away from her a little while until she can collect her thoughts and decide whether it is best to share her terrible secret with you or not."
— from Little Nobody by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

" The early American precedent was the case of "Uncle Tom's cabin," in 1853, in which Mrs. Stowe had copyrighted not only the original work, but a German translation which she had provided; Justice Grier in the U. S. Circuit Court held that she could not recover against one Thomas who was issuing another German translation, since it was not " copies of her book ."
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker