Nor would the youth his aid deny: He spake the monarch fair, And prayed him for that rite so high All requisites prepare.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

This exceptional ringing may be caused in two ways—by the rapid feeding of the sheep bearing the bell, as when the flock breaks into new pasture, which gives it an intermittent rapidity, or by the sheep starting off in a run, when the sound has a regular palpitation.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

In this way Brasidas hurried through Thessaly before any one could be got ready to stop him, and reached Perdiccas and Chalcidice.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

I suppose that when I saw Dora in the garden and pretended not to see her, and rode past the house pretending to be anxiously looking for it, I committed two small fooleries which other young gentlemen in my circumstances might have committed—because they came so very natural to me.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The death of Meletius, which happened at the council of Constantinople, presented the most favorable opportunity of terminating the schism of Antioch, by suffering his aged rival, Paulinus, peaceably to end his days in the episcopal chair.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

He also sent her a round piece of silver, which he pretended he had made of a portion of brass cut out of a warming-pan.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

—There was a fellow sailed with me in the Rover , the old seadog, himself a rover, proceeded, went ashore and took up a soft job as gentleman’s valet at six quid a month.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

She had a real passion for reading (rare in her kind, who for the most part are more interested in the author than in his book, in the painter than in his pictures), and she invented a world of the imagination in which she lived with a freedom she never acquired in the world of every day.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

The Persian poet Sádi has a remarkable passage conceived in the spirit of these legends, but more kindly.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Whether, like Browning’s sage, he also received page 272 p. 272 them, I did not learn.
— from Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland

The sly, ingenious manner in which Miguel Farrel had so innocently contrived to strew his already rough path with greater obstacles, infuriated Parker, and for an instant he lost control of himself.
— from The Pride of Palomar by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

There spreads the system that his ardent thought First into emblems, then to spirits wrought; Spirits that ruled all matter and all mind, Nourish'd or famish'd, kill'd or cured mankind, Bade him neglect the soil whereon he fed, Work with hard hand for that which was not bread, Erect the temple, darken deep the shrine, Yield the full hecatomb with awe divine, Despise this earth, and claim with lifted eyes His health and harvest from the meteor'd skies. Accustom'd thus to bow the suppliant head, And reverence powers that shake his heart with dread, His pliant faith extends with easy ken From heavenly hosts to heaven-anointed men; The sword, the tripod join their mutual aids, To film his eyes with more impervious shades, Create a sceptred idol, and enshrine The Robber Chief in attributes divine, Arm the new phantom with the nation's rod, And hail the dreadful delegate of God.
— from The Columbiad: A Poem by Joel Barlow

“Won’t it be fun to show her a real picture of herself?”
— from The Polly Page Ranch Club by Izola L. (Izola Louise) Forrester

She had a remarkable profusion of really fine chestnut hair, which was but half-powdered, and clustered in most bewitching ringlets round her face.
— from Reminiscences of Prince Talleyrand, Volume 1 (of 2) by Colmache, M., active 19th century

The poor were struggling hopelessly against rising prices; and their attempts at collective bargaining, by the collective refusal of badly-paid work, were discussed in the press, Liberal and Tory, as attacks upon the State.
— from The Crimes of England by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

But if the states have a restricted power of exclusion, such as that defined in the Bowman case, it is, in effect, a nullity, since circumstances can hardly be imagined under which its exercise might take place, without delaying the mails, or violating federal statutes which attach penalties for opening the mail and interfering with it while in transitu .
— from The postal power of Congress: A study in constitutional expansion by Lindsay Rogers