Almost since earliest memory I had shed no tear; or once only when I, murmuring half-audibly, recited Faust’s Deathsong, that wild Selig der den er
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

On this the king wrapped himself up in a gray-skin, and went back to his boat; but before they rowed away from the ship, every man in his suite bought such another skin as the king wore for himself.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Jonson always held Camden in veneration, acknowledging that to him he owed, "All that I am in arts, all that I know:" and dedicating his first dramatic success, "Every Man in His Humour," to him.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

Amidst the wilds of Tartary and Russia, although he still evaded me, I have ever followed in his track.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I would be great, but that the Sun doth still Level his rayes against the rising hill: 15 I would be high, but see the proudest Oak Most subject to the rending Thunder-stroke; I would be rich, but see men too unkind Dig in the bowels of the richest mine; I would be wise, but that I often see 20 The Fox suspected whilst the Ass goes free; I would be fair, but see the fair and proud Like the bright sun, oft setting in a cloud; I would be poor, but know the humble grass Still trampled on by each unworthy Asse: 25 Rich, hated; wise, suspected; scorn'd, if poor; Great, fear'd; fair, tempted; high, stil envied more: I have wish'd all, but now I wish for neither, Great, high, rich, wise, nor fair, poor I'l be rather.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

A great change was now about to take place in Pepys’s fortunes, for in the following March he was made secretary to Sir Edward Montage in his expedition to bring about the Restoration of Charles II., and on the 23rd he went on board the “Swiftsure” with Montage.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Insensibly, I found myself desolate and alone in that house where I had formerly been the very soul; where, if I may so express myself, I had enjoyed a double life, and by degrees, I accustomed myself to disregard everything that passed, and even those who dwelt there.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jonson always held Camden in veneration, acknowledging that to him he owed, "All that I am in arts, all that I know;" and dedicating his first dramatic success, "Every Man in His Humour," to him.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

I'd say excuse me, I have to make a phone call, and then ...
— from Four and Twenty Beds by Nancy Casteel Vogel

Of all the Centaur-Thing, When labouring in his side with the fell point O’ the shaft, enjoined me, I had nothing lost, But his vaticination in my heart Remained indelible, as though engraved With pen of iron upon brass. ’
— from The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

[Pg 82] Was it not related of him that, while staying in the country, in France, he caused a sheep or two to be sacrificed every morning in his bed-room, in order to ensure the Prophet's clemency until the evening?
— from Their Majesties as I Knew Them Personal Reminiscences of the Kings and Queens of Europe by Xavier Paoli

Sophia stretched, every muscle in her body aching.
— from Recruit for Andromeda by Stephen Marlowe

Hans blushed and stammered, "Excuse me: I had no intention of being indiscreet; but I thought it was no secret, or at least none between us."
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

Moving the coil backward and forward he strained every muscle in his face in a mad effort to understand.
— from Curlie Carson Listens In by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell