All of those who had taken part in the previous ceremonies assemble near the spot where this construction has been raised; then they advance slowly, stopping from time to time, until they reach the Umbana , which they enter.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Thus all day long the young men worshipped the god with song, hymning him and chaunting the joyous paean, and the god took pleasure in their voices; but when the sun went down, and it came on dark, they laid themselves down to sleep by the stern cables of the ship, and when the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared they again set sail for the host of the Achaeans.
— from The Iliad by Homer

When I retired to my cabin, the awful scene still followed me.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

In other words, all the Great Teachers, e. g. Jesus, Buddha, Zoroaster, and many others, in different ages and among various races, whose teachings are extant, are, according to a belief yet held by educated and mystical Celts, divine beings who in inconceivably past ages were men but who are now gods, able at will to incarnate into our world, in order to emphasize the need which exists in nature, by virtue of the working of evolutionary laws (to which they themselves are still subject), for man to look forward, and so strive to reach divinity rather than to look backward in evolution and thereby fall into mere animalism.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Christie's lips trembled as she spoke, for she was feeble still, and the thought of that hard-earned money had been her sustaining hope through the weary hours spent over that ill-paid work.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

On the satin back of the avalanche soft, She falls into lingering swoons, as she dies, While she lifteth her eyes to white visions aloft, Which like efflorescence float up to the skies.
— from The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire

At last all confusion, transfigured, trembling and sobbing, she flings herself at my feet and says that I am her saviour, and that she loves me better than anything in the world.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I should, if I had deliberated, have replied to this question by something conventionally vague and polite; but the answer somehow slipped from my tongue before I was aware—“No, sir.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Then he was seen to take a single step forward, when he again paused.
— from Blazing Arrow: A Tale of the Frontier by Edward Sylvester Ellis

I had not advanced five yards when a heart-rending scream made me turn round sharply just in time to see the boy in the grip of a huge tiger and still struggling feebly.
— from Indo-China and Its Primitive People by Henry Baudesson

That always seemed so foolish to me, to approach a thing continually [123] and never get there.
— from Peggy Raymond's Way; Or, Blossom Time at Friendly Terrace by Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith

Then she grew indignant at this seeming neglect, and thought, as she sat frowning over her work, behind his back— "He treats me like a child,—very well, then, I'll behave like one, and beset him with questions till he is driven to speak; for he can talk, he ought to talk, he shall talk."
— from Moods by Louisa May Alcott

At once he heard a tinkle-tinkle of a small bell up the dark funnel; and then a scraping sound from the same direction, seeming to draw nearer him.
— from Harper's Young People, September 14, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

A cold greeting was exchanged between them, and then a short silence followed, as each hesitated to speak.
— from Fairy Gold by Christian Reid

All I wish is we'd done the job more thorough and sent some friends of his along with him.
— from Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by William MacLeod Raine

Elise's heart gave a great thump, and she started forward eagerly.
— from The Little Colonel's Holidays by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston