She was overcome by sweet sorrow and tears were already rising in her eyes; then she suddenly asked herself to whom she was saying this.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

whose sword on many a field Food to the wandering wolf did yield, And then the thief and pirate band Swept wholly off by sea and land— Good king!
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Next, in 1855, he sent his son to the University of St. Petersburg, and, for the same reason, spent the following three winters in the capital, where he seldom went out, but spent the greater part of his time in endeavouring to fraternise with his son's youthful acquaintances.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The Count, however, was decidedly against him, and a long conversation ensued, in which the usual arguments on these subjects were on both sides brought forward with skill, and discussed with candour, but without converting either party to the opinion of his opponent.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Perhaps someone will object— “But suppose he does wrong and often fails to offer to the gods their sacred rites?”
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Thus for instance Grätz not only maintains after Frankel that the Essenes ‘were properly nothing more than stationary or, more strictly speaking, consistently logical (consequente) Chasidim ,’ and ‘that therefore they were not so far removed from the Pharisees that they can be regarded as a separate sect,’ and ‘accepts entirely these results’ which, as he says, ‘rest on critical investigation’ ( III. p. 463), but even boldly translates chasiduth ‘the Essene mode of life’ (ib. 84), though he himself gives a wholly different derivation of the word ‘Essene,’ making it signify ‘washers’ or ‘baptists’ (see above, p. 116 ).
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

" After a moment's hesitation, she went on boldly, smiling with the awkwardness of one who is determined to learn something at any cost.
— from The Sherrods by George Barr McCutcheon

“I would rather do scullery work, or break stones by the roadside, than be a schoolteacher in England.”
— from Gloria Mundi by Harold Frederic

A street or two of houses, mostly red and many of them tiled; a number of fine trees clustered [75] about the manse and the kirkyard, and turning the chief street into a shady alley; many little gardens more than usually bright with flowers; nets a-drying, and fisher-wives scolding in the backward parts; a smell of fish, a genial smell of seaweed; whiffs of blowing sand at the street corners; shops with golf-balls and bottled lollipops; such, as well as memory serves me, were the ingredients of the town.
— from Evolution of Expression, Volume 2—Revised A Compilation of Selections Illustrating the Four Stages of Development in Art As Applied to Oratory; Twenty-Eighth Edition by Charles Wesley Emerson

For small dams, a row of plank driven down behind a timber sill across and in the bed of the stream will often be sufficient. Fig. 40.—Section of a flood dam.
— from Rural Hygiene by Henry N. (Henry Neely) Ogden

Our left had not been fully formed when the attack begun on the right; a considerable body of the enemy's horse came up also to attack them, but receiving part of the fire of our left they broke and run off; their infantry coming in upon that side were opposed by some of our battalions, who receiving the enemy's fire went in amongst them sword in hand and drove them down the hill with great impetuosity and slaughter, but not being in sight of our right (by reason of the unevenness of the ground) they made a halt till such time as the two wings should join in the centre and the second line come up.
— from The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) by J. Pringle (James Pringle) Thomson

One shall propose by the river—there are lovely shady walks on both sides; another, up in the mountains; another, in the moonlight on the lake, in one of the pretty foreign-looking rowing boats they have here, with striped awnings.
— from Revenge! by Robert Barr

Below was a shelf with other books, such as Vincent Wing's Almanack, King Charles's 'Golden Rules,' 'Glanville on Apparitions,' the 'Complete Justice,' and the 'Book of Farriery.'
— from For Faith and Freedom by Walter Besant