Solveig came up to a large farm called Solbjorg, and brought the news.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

To me his successes chalk up to a longer list than his failures and I end with Phillimore: “What a strange thought—that an Alexandrian with the names of Achilles Tatius (what a pair!), atticizing con furore in the reign of Diocletian, should write a story which delighted the Byzantine Middle Ages and can still be read with interest and amusement!”
— from Essays on the Greek Romances by Elizabeth Hazelton Haight

We soon after had the moon herself, rising broad and bright from the ocean; and all was romance, until a party were seen coming up the avenue, laughing and talking very sportively.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various

She could use the Apache language with fluency, and was thus enabled to talk with the captives for whom she had come.
— from Captivity of the Oatman Girls Being an Interesting Narrative of Life Among the Apache and Mohave Indians by R. B. (Royal Byron) Stratton

I suppose everyone knows the feeling that sometimes calls us to a life where we fend and cater for ourselves in the fields and rivers, such as William Morris knew when he shot fieldfares with his bow and arrow and cooked them for his supper.
— from The Lyric: An Essay by John Drinkwater

The charm of Colonel Sellers wholly escapes her; she cannot understand the almost loving appreciation with which this cheaply gross forerunner of the later American industrial brigand was greeted by the American public.
— from Mark Twain by Archibald Henderson

We may slowly creep up to a lofty position, Then go back at one leap to the lower condition.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various