[251] In the Rennes Dinnshenchas there is a tale about a war among the ‘men of the Elfmounds’ over ‘two lovable maidens who dwelt in the elfmound’, and when they delivered the battle ‘they all shaped themselves into the [Pg 302] shapes of deer’.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Such are the minor works of the first and the epistles of the latter, which are the best and most profiting of all their writings.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

At the end of the lane was the blue glimmer of the river; to the left, standing in front of a clump of oaks and maples, he saw a long tumble-down house with white paint peeling from its clapboards.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Cosette became in the eyes of the law, Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The manager clapped his hands as a signal to proceed, and the savage, becoming ferocious, made a slide towards the maiden; but the maiden avoided him in six twirls, and came down, at the end of the last one, upon the very points of her toes.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

When the door had closed on the last of them and the chink of the lanterns had died away, Mole and Rat kicked the fire up, drew their chairs in, brewed themselves a last nightcap of mulled ale, and discussed the events of the long day.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

In the vast desert to the east of the Lower Sutlej and of the Indus, the only part of India suited for its natural habitat, the lion was in ancient times no doubt frequent, but he now survives only in the wooded hills to the south of the peninsula of Gujarat.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

"The facts noticed by Sven Hedin have thus another meaning—the desert to the east of the lakes, which he discovered, was formed, not by Lob-nor, which is situated 1° southwards, but by the Koncheh-daria, in its unremitted deflection to the west.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

For his death, 735, the date given in the “Continuation,” seems to be supported by the evidence of the letter of Cuthbert to Cuthwin ( v. infra ).
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Hendricks moved toward the end of the ladder.
— from Second Variety by Philip K. Dick

As soon as they emerged from the shelter of the rift and stood upon the storm-swept cliff, Dick had to clap his hand to his head to keep on his hat, for the wind seized it and swept it to the extent of the lanyard by which it was fortunately held, and there it tugged and strained like a queerly-shaped kite.
— from Menhardoc by George Manville Fenn

As the last stroke dies away the ball bursts, and the White Ensign of Britain crossed by the Red Cross of St. George, and with the Jack in the corner, floats out defiantly on the breeze, [Pg 328] greeted by the reawakening clamour of the bells, and a deep hoarse cry from millions of throats, that rolls like a vast sea of sound up the slopes to the encampments of the League.
— from The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror by George Chetwynd Griffith

This opening was received with a profound silence; and a slight murmur arose after the enunciation of the last idea.
— from Cinq Mars — Complete by Alfred de Vigny

[ 88 ] When the echo of the last ringing note faded, the man sprang forward, and, throwing himself impetuously on his knees before Wilhelmine, he raised the hem of her gown to his lips in a passionate gesture, though with the adoring reverence that all poets give to great singers.
— from A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hay, Marie, Hon. (Agnes Blanche Marie)

What wild flight of imagination could conceive an image surpassing that, of the interstellar voyage of light, stamping with the seal of eternity the transitory events of the life of each world?
— from Lumen by Camille Flammarion

The States- General had never doubted, they said, that so soon as the enemy had begun to feel the effects, of that league he would endeavour to make a composition with one or other of the parties in order to separate them, and to break up that united strength which otherwise he could never resist.
— from History of the United Netherlands, 1598 by John Lothrop Motley

At the point where the iris leaves the anterior border of the choroid proper the latter is very thick, and forms a delicate crown of folds ( g ), which surrounds the edge of the lens with about seventy large and many smaller rays ( corona ciliaris. )
— from The Evolution of Man by Ernst Haeckel

The ends of this lever are attached by means of reach-rods to the knock-off cams, this being shown more clearly in Fig.
— from Steam Engines by Anonymous