Lydgate foresaw that science and his profession were the objects he should alone pursue enthusiastically; but he could not imagine himself pursuing them in such a home as Wrench had—the doors all open, the oil-cloth worn, the children in soiled pinafores, and lunch lingering in the form of bones, black-handled knives, and willow-pattern.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

In the first place are “conditores imperiorum,” 545 founders of states and commonwealths; such as were Romulus, Cyrus, Cæsar, Ottoman, 546 Ismael: in the second place are “legislatores,” lawgivers, which are also called second founders, or “perpetui principes,” 547 because they govern by their 281 ordinances after they are gone; such were Lycurgus, Solon, Justinian, Edgar, 548 Alphonsus of Castile, the Wise, that made the “Siete Partidas:” 549 in the third place are “liberatores,” or “salvatores,” 550 such as compound the long miseries of civil wars, or deliver their countries from servitude of strangers or tyrants, as Augustus Cæsar, Vespasianus, Aurelianus, Theodoricus, King Henry the Seventh of England, King Henry the Fourth of France: in the fourth place are “propagatores,” or “propugnatores imperii,” 551 such as in honorable wars enlarge their territories, or make noble defence against invaders: and, in the last place are “patres patriæ,” 552 which reign justly, and make the times good wherein they live; both which last kinds need no examples, they are in such number.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Otros se pasean a lo largo del río o del lago.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

—But at this point in his discourse it chanced that Zarathustra suddenly paused, and looked like a person in the greatest alarm.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

As it was from the sea they made of it, of course, a very nice hot fish soup with savoury pepper and laurel leaves, or broth with vinegar and fricassee of fish and cabbage, or crayfish sauce, or served it cold with horse-radish. .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I turnd, And gaz'd a while the ample Skie, till rais'd By quick instinctive motion up I sprung, As thitherward endevoring, and upright 260 Stood on my feet; about me round I saw Hill, Dale, and shadie Woods, and sunnie Plaines, And liquid Lapse of murmuring Streams; by these, Creatures that livd, and movd, and walk'd, or flew, Birds on the branches warbling; all things smil'd, With fragrance and with joy my heart oreflow'd.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Strait toward Heav’n my wondring Eyes I turnd, And gaz’d a while the ample Skie, till rais’d By quick instinctive motion up I sprung, As thitherward endevoring, and upright Stood on my feet; about me round I saw Hill, Dale, and shadie Woods, and sunnie Plaines, And liquid Lapse of murmuring Streams; by these, Creatures that livd, and movd, and walk’d, or flew, Birds on the branches warbling; all things smil’d, With fragrance and with joy my heart oreflow’d.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Smaller packs are Lord Leconfield's Fox Hounds, which have the Charlton country; the Eastbourne Fox Hounds, to which the East Sussex Fox Hounds allotted a share of the western part of their country east of the Cuckmere; and the Burstow and Eridge packs.
— from Highways and Byways in Sussex by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

His unpretending dwelling was about twenty feet square, perhaps a little larger, roofed with bark, leaving an opening in the centre to give egress to the smoke from the fire which blazed beneath it on the floor, in the middle of the ample apartment.
— from Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton by Anonymous

In this she pursued a logical line of thought, which was, if anything, too unsympathetic with the energies and religions of the East.
— from New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915, With Index by Various

She paused and laughed lightly.
— from Patience Sparhawk and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Un jour que dans le bois il se mit à se plaindre, A lui la foudre en main Jupitre s'apparut.
— from Popular Tales by Charles Perrault

I mean’—— she paused a little, looking at him with a malicious devil in her eye, as if undecided what she should say.
— from Lady William by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

If you continue this for one season you will find that the next year, even if you begin with no fertilizer at all, mature seedlings planted a little late and wider apart than usual will grow beautifully and strong, and you will get big ears of rice even without adding any fertilizer during the season.
— from Down with the Cities! by Tadashi Nakashima

The windows, the furniture, and everything that could lend one cheerful thought, are hung in solemn white; and there, stretched pale and lifeless, lies the awful corpse, while a few weeping friends sit, black and solitary, near the breathless clay.
— from Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 1 by John Wilson

,” said Phronsie, and looked lovingly at the rest of the toast and butter on the plate; and while Polly fed it to her, listened with absorbed interest to all the particulars concerning each and every chick in the Henderson hen-coop.
— from Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney

At one stopping place a large leathern hose was depending from a water main for giving the engine water, and somebody turning this on, we all took shower baths under it, or plunged into the huge tub alongside, some being so keen on not missing their chance that they took their baths in their clothes, tunics and all.
— from A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire by Harold Harvey