This monster fell in love with a beautiful nymph called Galatea; but, as may be supposed, his addresses were not acceptable to the fair maiden, who rejected them in favour of a youth named Acis, upon which Polyphemus, with his usual barbarity, destroyed the life of his rival by throwing upon him a gigantic rock.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

She wished, also, to petition, though she scarcely dared to believe the request would be granted, that he would permit her, since her aunt was no more, to return to her native country.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

288 Look when a painter would surpass the life, In limning out a well-proportion’d steed, His art with nature’s workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should exceed: 292 So did this horse excel a common one, In shape, in courage, colour, pace and bone.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The ascent was not, however, so difficult as it seemed, although there were one or two nasty places where it did not do to look behind you, the fact being that the rock still sloped here, and was not absolutely precipitous as it was higher up.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Could she give up this new love—induce him to renounce her by saying she did not like him—could no more speak to him, and beg him, for her good, to end his furlough in Bath, and see her and Weatherbury no more?
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

“Enough, Magua,” said Heyward; “are we not friends?
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

And the next morning, when the Rector woke, and called for small beer, she put him in mind of his promise to visit Sir Huddleston Fuddleston on Saturday, and as he knew he should have a wet night, it was agreed that he might gallop back again in time for church on Sunday morning.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

I suppose all these years since his accident will not exist for him.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

She could calmly seat herself and with no apparent difficulty give him many hundreds of reasons why he was of vastly more importance on the farm than on the field of battle.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

Since her aunt was not there, but gone, as Mrs. Dykeman, on an extended tour—"part business and part honeymoon," her husband told her—and since Mrs. Pettigrew now ruled alone at The Cottonwoods, with every evidence of ability and enjoyment, Vivian promptly installed herself in the Saunders home, as general housekeeper and nurse.
— from The Crux: A Novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

He has horses entered at half the races in the country (under other people's names; for the old lord is a strict hand, and will not hear of betting or gambling).
— from The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray

Even after these cases were brought to Warsaw and put into clean linen pyjamas and immaculate beds, the gas still given out from their lungs as they exhaled so poisoned the air in the hospital that some of the women nurses were affected with severe headaches and with nausea.
— from The Russian Campaign, April to August, 1915 Being the Second Volume of "Field Notes from the Russian Front" by Stanley Washburn

This was "Sense and Sensibility," published in 1811; but she had already written "Northanger Abbey" and "Pride and Prejudice," although they were not published until years afterward.
— from Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 by Various

She had arrived with none save her crew, and the dragoman now talking with that good-looking Hadji there.
— from It Happened in Egypt by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

In his anxiety to escape Gus Coulter had plunged into the swamp hole and was now up to his waist and rapidly sinking.
— from The Putnam Hall Rebellion; or, The Rival Runaways by Edward Stratemeyer

Ephemeral as such fortifications necessarily were, the construction of a rampart formed of a triple row of trunks of trees, surmounted with galleries, from whence to hurl stones and other missiles on their assailants, was a formidable undertaking for builders provided with no better tools than stone hatchets, and with no other means of transport than their united labour supplied.
— from The Lost Atlantis and Other Ethnographic Studies by Wilson, Daniel, Sir