After a time, perceiving the meekness and gentleness of the beast’s temper, he summoned courage enough to approach him.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

He expected that in answer she would say something rather free, something to commit herself still further to that “recklessness” from which Mrs. Walker had so charitably endeavored to dissuade her.
— from Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James

I see Christ eating the bread of his last supper in the midst of youths and old persons, I see where the strong divine young man the Hercules toil'd faithfully and long and then died, I see the place of the innocent rich life and hapless fate of the beautiful nocturnal son, the full-limb'd Bacchus, I see Kneph, blooming, drest in blue, with the crown of feathers on his head, I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-belov'd, saying to the people Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banish'd from my true country, I now go back there, I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Even if you do not elect a superintendent in the mean time, Major Smith could easily teach this class, as he is very familiar with the subject-matter: Indeed, I think you will do well to leave the subject of a new superintendent until one perfectly satisfactory turns up.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

'Karolides was shot dead this evening at a few minutes after seven.' CHAPTER EIGHT The Coming of the Black Stone I came down to breakfast next morning, after eight hours of blessed dreamless sleep, to find Sir Walter decoding a telegram in the midst of muffins and marmalade.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

Still confidently expecting to realise an income, however small, from the steam-boat stock, we had involved ourselves considerably in debt, in order to pay our servants and obtain the common necessaries of life; and we owed a large sum to two Englishmen in Dummer, for clearing ten more acres upon the farm.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

As it is possible, and indeed usual, to fit a holder of some capacity even to an automatic generator, the simple fact that more acetylene is liberated after the main reaction is over does not matter, for the gas can be safely stored without waste and entirely without trouble or danger.
— from Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by W. J. Atkinson (William John Atkinson) Butterfield

It was very brief, yet when 'twas finished she wished, with all her heart, she could escape to her own room and read it once again, all by herself.
— from Marion's Faith. by Charles King

He summoned courage enough to stretch out his right foot and search with his right hand for a hold.
— from The Adventures of Billy Topsail by Norman Duncan

Somehow or other the average Englishman never thinks of the soldier as a Christian, and soldier poets bring out almost every other phase of the soldier character except this.
— from From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa by William E. Sellers

You have neither a wife nor a betrothed; although in such circumstances, even these relations have been overlooked by many men of sense, who have considered that they should not really hurt their families, but should gain wealth and pleasure to themselves."
— from The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius Comprising the Ethiopics; or, Adventures of Theagenes and Chariclea; The pastoral amours of Daphnis and Chloe; and the loves of Clitopho and Leucippe by of Emesa Heliodorus

This body of men took a conspicuous part in the war—​took a noble part, although those who feared them, and were unequal to meet them in successful combat, endeavoured to malign them.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff