It is said of Orpheus, that he went with some of his disciples to meet Theiodamas, the son of Priam, and to partake in a sacrifice which he every year offered upon the summit of a high [720] mountain.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

But I will not stay my anger, nor permit any god to help the Danaans till I have accomplished the desire of the son of Peleus, according to the promise I made by bowing my head on the day when Thetis touched my knees and besought me to give him honour.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Brother Charles nodded again, and exchanged a laughing look with brother Ned; but, just then, Nicholas stopped to refer to some other page, and Tim Linkinwater, unable to contain his satisfaction any longer, descended from his stool, and caught him rapturously by the hand.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The idea of a diminished liberty was particularly disagreeable to her at present, since she had just given a sort of personal accent to her independence by looking so straight at Lord Warburton’s big bribe and yet turning away from it.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

They returned with timorous obedience; and were saluted with the account of a heavy debt, of all the losses which their desertion had occasioned, the hire of lodgings, the sale of provisions, and the various expenses of servants and strangers who attended the court.
— 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

whilst sighs of pleasure, and tender broken exclamations, were all the praises he could utter.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

American gamblers speak of “putting all the PILE on” when they fancy anything very much.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

He was discharged from the service on suspicion of plots against the government.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I would willingly give five hundred,” said the J.P., taking the slip of paper and the pencil which Holmes handed to him.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

It must be inferred that the wife's cup contained none of the poison, for she developed no symptoms of poisoning after the meal.
— from The Substitute Prisoner by Max Marcin

When he awoke, the trunks of the pine-trees stood out purple against the sunset, and the evening light cast over all things a glamour of mystery.
— from Children of the Dawn : Old Tales of Greece by E. F. (Elsie Finnimore) Buckley

For the larger part of an hour, Jinnie held the newcomer close to her thumping heart, and when a spasm of pain attacked the shaggy head resting on her arm, she wept in sympathetic agony.
— from Rose O'Paradise by Grace Miller White

A lover of natural history afterwards read us a lecture on toads, which, in their sphere, seemed to me as odd sort of people as the foregoing.
— from Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince. by Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von

SIGNS OF PREGNANCY, AND THE MEANS OF DETECTING IT; ITS DURATION, AND THE PERIOD AT WHICH THE FŒTUS CAN LIVE.
— from The Matron's Manual of Midwifery, and the Diseases of Women During Pregnancy and in Childbed Being a Familiar and Practical Treatise, More Especially Intended for the Instruction of Females Themselves, but Adapted Also for Popular Use among Students and Practitioners of Medicine by Frederick Hollick

We took that wine-ship to go to Bordeaux; but the wind failed while we were yet in sight of Pevensey, a thick mist hid us, and we drifted with the tide along the cliffs to the west.
— from Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling

Passing through some of the more narrow and tortuous streets of Paris, and their horses pressed on by the crowd of foot passengers, who were coming from, or going to, the same gay scene as themselves, they could only converse in broken observations to each other, as they for a moment came side by side.
— from Philip Augustus; or, The Brothers in Arms by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

It was Sunday afternoon, and Uncle Ike had been to church with the red-headed boy, and they had listened to a sermon on patriotism, and the minister had expressed himself on the subject of the Philippines, and the duty the President owed to civilization to keep on killing those negroes until they learned better than to kick at having a strange race of people boss them around, and Uncle Ike had walked home along the bank of the lake, and breathed the free air that was his because his ancestors had conquered it from England, and he couldn't help having a little sympathy for those Filipinos who had been bought from a country that didn't own them, by a country that had no use for them, and wished it could get rid of them honorably, without hurting the political party that was acting as overseer over them.
— from Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

Some of our theorists argued that the country was too poor for the establishment of the social organizations proposed, and that more wealth was needed.
— from Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman

heaping with berries; dredge with flour, salt and sugar; dot with small pieces of butter; cover with top crust or strips of pastry across top.
— from New Royal Cook Book by Royal Baking Powder Company