[pg 227] Then with his sevenfold shield he strode away.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Once in the hollow, he had got behind the horse and had struck a light; but the creature frightened at the sudden glare, and with the strange instinct of animals feeling that some mischief was intended, had lashed out, and the steel shoe had struck Straker full on the forehead.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Thou dost;—but all thy foster-babes are dead— The men of iron; and the world hath reared Cities from out their sepulchres: men bled In imitation of the things they feared, And fought and conquered, and the same course steered, At apish distance; but as yet none have, Nor could, the same supremacy have neared, Save one vain man, who is not in the grave, But, vanquished by himself, to his own slaves a slave, XC.
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

“You have put in on account of the bad weather, I suppose?” said he.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“I shall still have my place.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I don't think we shall see him again.
— from American Historical and Literary Curiosities: Second Series, Complete by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith

And we sha'n't be any better off then than we are now; for in that day we shall still have the privilege the Simplifiers are exercising now: anybody can change the spelling that wants to.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

She had, indeed, never opened it since she had put the money given to her at the Bank of England into it, having enough small change for her immediate needs in the bag which she usually carried about with her.
— from A Girl of the People by L. T. Meade

Happily, except for a severe shaking, he was unhurt.
— from Lancashire Humour by Thomas Newbigging

The Constable of Dundee (Sir James Scrymgeour) Sprot had also accused falsely.
— from James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Andrew Lang

And in favour of the view that some such huge collection of sensibles is the upper side of the half-crown, is the fact that we do seem to have a strong propensity to believe that any particular sensible, which we directly apprehend in looking at the upper side of the half-crown, and of our direct apprehension of which the upper side is the source, is in the place in which the upper side is.
— from Philosophical Studies by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

His attentions were too formal and constrained to pass unobserved by her penetration, and though he ascribed his manner, and his absence, to business duties, she saw his affection for her was only something to be remembered.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

"Should a Knote dare to sing a student song, he is to be well cudgelled; not so much on account of the excellence of the song, as on account of the audacity of the Philistine, presuming to desecrate songs sacred to the students especially as it is impossible that he can have so much feeling as to appreciate the elegance and beauty of such songs."
— from The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt

Some said he came back to Randall merely because he loved her athletics so, but Bricktop, with a ruffling up of his red hair would say, half-savagely: “I deny the allegation, sir, and I defy the alligator!” an old joke but a good one.
— from The Eight-Oared Victors: A Story of College Water Sports by Lester Chadwick

There is no tendency here to revolutionize the State, to banish the ruling power, and institute a Republican form of government; but inasmuch as we saw the weakness of an absolute monarchy in large and populous States, as represented by the circle, the wisdom of an elliptical social system has ordained that there shall be two foci, or houses of representatives of the people, who shall assist in regulating the progress of the nation.
— from The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion. by P. Hampson

Lady Tyrrell said she had laughed at it, but had no notion it was seriously meant; and I—I never even heard of it!”
— from The Three Brides by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

The galleries of St. Mark's Square shaded his walks and he compared them to those porticoes of Ephesus whither Heraclitus went to forget the agitation of the Greeks and the sombre menace of the Persian Empire.
— from The life of Friedrich Nietzsche by Daniel Halévy