Admetus happened not to be indoors, but his wife, to whom he made himself a suppliant, instructed him to take their child in his arms and sit down by the hearth.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Job's friends said not a word to him the first seven days, but let sorrow and discontent take their course, themselves sitting sad and silent by him.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The surgeon's wife was sitting in the school-room busy at work, while Lucy was putting the finishing touches on some water-color sketches done by her pupils.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Now for their authority, what by auricular confession, satisfaction, penance, Peter's keys, thunderings, excommunications, &c., roaring bulls, this high priest of Rome, shaking his Gorgon's head, hath so terrified the soul of many a silly man, insulted over majesty itself, and swaggered generally over all Europe for many ages, and still doth to some, holding them as yet in slavish subjection, as never tyrannising Spaniards did by their poor Negroes, or Turks by their galley-slaves.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Santangel (Sancto Angelos) Luis (Azorias) De, a convert and learned jurist of Calatayad, Spain, died before 1459.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

The contents of the leaves, and the oil, are supposed to be consumed by some divine being at the bottom of the pool.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Sit down beneath it, and wait till night comes, and you will soon learn how to shudder.’
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

Sit down beside this light: this is your ring of safety, budge not beyond—the night is crowded with hobgoblins.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 15 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Kua mate ahau, e ora ana nga rakau nei, I shall die before these sticks decay .
— from Grammar of the New Zealand language (2nd edition) by Robert Maunsell

Our men stood firm, and with eyes fixed on the foe, who, as soon as they were close at hand, were shot down by the guns whose aim was so sure.
— from The Life of George Washington. In Words of One Syllable by Josephine Pollard

Sentimentality, too, drugs the soul; so does business.
— from The Crow's Nest by Clarence Day

A contemporary document (Summaria Declaratio Bullæ Indulgentiarum Ecclesiæ Xanctonensi concessarum, 1482) tells us that the price in Rome for those in the ordinary form was nearly three florins.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 2 by Henry Charles Lea

It might be he would come back some day, but not to things as they were, not ever again, nor as the same man.
— from The Money Master, Complete by Gilbert Parker