Then met the eternal synod of the sky, Before the god, who thunders from on high, Supreme in might, sublime in majesty.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

I must see; I must see; I must see."
— from Five Little Friends by Sherred Willcox Adams

His sensations, at this minute, resolved themselves into the words: "She is mine, she is mine!" which went round and round in his brain.
— from Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson

She knows me; child though she is, she is my superior in many things.
— from The Redemption of Kenneth Galt by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

Immediately the whole start out before you, living and picturesque: the road to Emmaus is a New England turnpike; you can see its mile stones, its mullein stalks, its toll gates.
— from The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe

At five years of age it begins to go to school, and from that time until its fourteenth or sixteenth year, whatever else it studies, it must study its mother tongue.
— from The Aural System Being the Most Direct, the Straight-Line Method for the Simultaneous Fourfold Mastery of a Foreign Language. by Charles Hardy