Here he approaches, and here again he approaches, and strays all round and about, and untiringly shakes his certain spear.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Then heed his will, and be our journey made While the broad beams of Phoebus are display'd, Or ere brown evening spreads her chilly shade."
— from The Odyssey by Homer

From the point where he stood he could see the whole extent of the Pont d’Austerlitz.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

And after being a long time, he knew not how long, with the goblin, the Lady of the Wood, he looked one morning as the sun was rising upon the half of the ring, and he bethought him to place it in the most precious place he could, and he resolved to put it under his eyelid; and as he was endeavouring to do so, he could see a man in white apparel, and mounted on a snow-white horse, coming towards him, and that person asked him what he did there; and he told him that he was cherishing an afflicting remembrance of his wife Angharad.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

Bearing, as he did, the destiny of a world on his heart, and burdened beyond all utterance by the mighty load, his soul was full of the theme for which he was suffering, he could speak to man only of his highest needs and his [221] highest capabilities.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

Here, you nigger,” said he, coming suddenly out upon Tom, and raising his riding-whip, “how dare you be gettin’ up this yer row, when you ought t
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

When she saw him come, she showed herself so rejoiced and so gracious to him, that he might very well understand that he had gathered the truth from the friar's words, and thenceforward, under colour of other business, he began with the utmost precaution to pass continually through the street, to his own pleasure and to the exceeding delight and solace of the lady.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

This enraged the King most terribly, so he caused Seame to be whipped out of the house.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Clark, August 5, 1804] August 5th Set out early wind from N E. Great appearance of Wind & rain, (I have remarked that I have not heard much thunder in this Countrey) a verry large Snake was Killed to day called the Bull Snake, his Colour Some thing like a rattle Snake Something lighter—the bends of the river to day is washing away the banks, haveing nothing to oppose the turbelance of the river when Confined by large hard Sand Points, forceing this Current against the bends—the Soil of the entire bottom between the high land, being the mud or Ooze of the river of Some former period mixed with Sand & Clay easely melts and Slips, or washies into the river the mud mixes with the water & the Sand collects on the points Camped on the S. S.—I went on Shore S. S. this evening Saw Some turkeys and in persueing them Struk the river 12 miles below the place by water I went out, I think the Peninsuly is about 370 yards across Subjuct to overflow; & washes into numerous Channels, Great quantities of Graps ripe & of three
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The privateer Sumter was driven into Gibraltar, and so closely watched by the Tuscarora that Captain Semmes, her commander, sold her, and made his way to England, where the English built for him the most famous privateer the Confederacy ever had—the Alabama —of which much more will be told further on.
— from A New History of the United States The greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year by Charles Morris

Slowly and yet steadily he could see that "The Swallow" was gaining.
— from Ward Hill, the Senior by Everett T. (Everett Titsworth) Tomlinson

“AS we seem to be giving in our types youngest by youngest, it is Dora’s turn now to tell us which she has chosen,” said Lucius.
— from The Children's Tabernacle; Or, Hand-Work and Heart-Work by A. L. O. E.

Even if she were found, was it not far more probable that she had committed suicide, especially as she had attempted it once before?
— from The Vicar's People by George Manville Fenn

And scarcely he could stand.
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Four of the Sisters attended the sick in the Transylvania College building, which for the time being was used as a prison for about six hundred Confederate soldiers.
— from Angels of the Battlefield A History of the Labors of the Catholic Sisterhoods in the Late Civil War by George Barton

Bob uttered a low chuckling laugh, and trotted along by the edge of the river; but it was too dark for him to see anything, and Dexter, forgetting cold and dread, swam bravely on, looking well to right and left, without avail, till all at once, just in one of the deepest eddies, some fifty yards down below the doctor’s house, and where an unusually large willow spread its arms over the stream, he caught sight of something which blotted out the starlight for a moment, and then the stars’ reflection beamed out again.
— from Quicksilver: The Boy With No Skid to His Wheel by George Manville Fenn