" As he spoke there stood up a champion both brave and of great stature, a skilful boxer, Epeus, son of Panopeus.
— from The Iliad by Homer

cried Hattersley, snatching up a footstool and hurting it at the head of his host; but he as well as missed his aim, and the latter still sat collapsed and quaking with feeble laughter, with tears running down his face: a deplorable spectacle indeed.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Other cars were showing up, all of them dreamboats.
— from The Marching Morons by C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth

Behold, I have a weapon; A better never did itself sustain Upon a soldier's thigh.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Likewise, Nuralie, the name of a great god among the tribes on the Murray River, is sometimes used as a collective expression which is applied to the group of mythical beings whom tradition places at the origin of things.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Mean while the south-wind rose, and, with black wings Wide-hovering, all the clouds together drove From under Heaven; the hills to their supply Vapour, and exhalation dusk and moist, Sent up amain; and now the thickened sky Like a dark ceiling stood; down rushed the rain Impetuous; and continued, till the earth No more was seen: the floating vessel swum Uplifted, and secure with beaked prow Rode tilting o'er the waves; all dwellings else Flood overwhelmed, and them with all their pomp Deep under water rolled; sea covered sea, Sea without shore; and in their palaces, Where luxury late reigned, sea-monsters whelped And stabled; of mankind, so numerous late, All left, in one small bottom swum imbarked.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

And other forms of the third person plural of the indicative active are sometimes used: as, Pisaurian DEDROT , DEDRO (with syncope, 111 ) for dederunt , gave ; EMERV , bought , for ēmērunt ; once DEDERI , probably for dedēre ( 856 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The person whom she had left in charge of her house to keep off followers from her maids to set up a follower of her own!
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

King Jupiter, answered Priapus, standing up and taking off his cowl, his snout uncased and reared up, fiery and stiffly propped, since you compare the one to a yelping snarling cur and the other to sly Reynard the fox, my advice is, with submission, that without fretting or puzzling your brains any further about ‘em, without any more ado, even serve ‘em both as, in the days of yore, you did the dog and the fox.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

He showed us a trial of this which has been since used by Fronton, and is now common among the pastimes and harmless recreations of the Thelemites.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The king of Persia, who expected no such sight, set up a hideous cry, verily believing he should either see the dear prince his son no more, or that he should see him drowned; nay, he was like to give up the ghost amidst his so great grief and affliction.
— from The Arabian Nights, Volume 3 (of 4) by Anonymous

But the waters of Duncan’s Bay, so peaceful, so undisturbed and deserted, seemed to call.
— from The Phantom Violin A Mystery Story for Girls by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

Mrs. Gaunt, who did nothing by halves, sent up a cartload of flowerpots, and Betty and the gardener arranged at least eighty of them, small and great, inside and outside the window.
— from Griffith Gaunt; or, Jealousy Volumes 1 to 3 (of 3) by Charles Reade

Ever since the age of the Crusades that seaport [pg.206] had been the chief place of arms of Palestine; but the harbour was now nearly silted up, and even the neighbouring roadstead of Hayfa was desolate.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

Then I made for a corner of the yard where the wall was lowest, and, taking a run at it, caught the top, with difficulty scrambled up, and speedily was over and floundering in the mud.
— from The Seats of the Mighty, Complete by Gilbert Parker

The boat was presently headed to the west, and the sail unfurled again, but as the night advanced the wind fell to a mere breeze, and then died altogether.
— from Captain Sam: The Boy Scouts of 1814 by George Cary Eggleston

He smiled up at the old man.
— from The Prophetic Camera by John McGreevey

Soon they came in sight of the place, and set up a loud whistling, which brought the two men to the door.
— from First at the North Pole; Or, Two Boys in the Arctic Circle by Edward Stratemeyer

The two chiefs struck up a sort of partnership; and coasting southward along the western shores of Denmark, they won a sea-fight in the Ringkiobing Fiord, among the "sand hills of Jutland."
— from Historic Boys: Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times by Elbridge S. (Elbridge Streeter) Brooks

The effects of her dread were still upon her, and they set up a sort of panic which made her fearful of touching the missile.
— from The Forfeit by Ridgwell Cullum