Yes, while she shook the teapot hot and dry over the spirit flame she saw those other two, him, leaning back, taking his ease among the cushions, and her, [Pg 147] curled up en escargot in the blue shell arm-chair.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

In that wise he was borne across the house and deposited in his own seat, under a peppering fire of giggles from the whole school.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Sadness gives place to joy, despair to hope, and disheartenment to encouragement.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage, and thereby come to have a distinct interest from the rest of the community, contrary to the end of society and government: therefore in wellordered commonwealths, where the good of the whole is so considered, as it ought, the legislative power is put into the hands of divers persons, who duly assembled, have by themselves, or jointly with others, a power to make laws, which when they have done, being separated again, they are themselves subject to the laws they have made; which is a new and near tie upon them, to take care, that they make them for the public good.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

Yet she reigned with long and absolute power over the mind of her illustrious husband; and if Antonina disdained the merit of conjugal fidelity, she expressed a manly friendship to Belisarius, whom she accompanied with undaunted resolution in all the hardships and dangers of a military life.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

[216] “To us moderns, for whom the breach which divides the human and divine has deepened into an impassable gulf, such mimicry may appear impious, but it was otherwise with the ancients.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

Patroclus went up to him and drove a spear into his right jaw; he thus hooked him by the teeth and the spear pulled him over the rim of his car, as one who sits at the end of some jutting rock and draws a strong fish out of the sea with a hook and a line—even so with his spear did he pull Thestor all gaping from his chariot; he then threw him down on his face and he died while falling.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Are they mad?’ cried Nicholas, diving under the table, dragging up the collector by main force, and thrusting him, all doubled up, into a chair, as if he had been a stuffed figure.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

No, your boots.” All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by reverie.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

If these lessons teach us, on one hand, to admire the improvement made by America on the ancient mode of preparing and establishing regular plans of government, they serve not less, on the other, to admonish us of the hazards and difficulties incident to such experiments, and of the great imprudence of unnecessarily multiplying them.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Jane, listening to Martha's honest and just compliments and to the faint murmurs of the city's dusty, sweaty toil, had a delicious sense of the superiority of her lot—a feeling that somehow there must be something in the theory of rightfully superior and inferior classes—that in taking what she had not earned she was not robbing those who had earned it, as her reason so often asserted, but was being supported by the toil of others for high purposes of aesthetic beauty.
— from The Conflict by David Graham Phillips

Notice how he has written there half a dozen times in a row, ‘$20,000,’ and just below it twice, ‘W. & S. Ex. Co.’
— from Crooked Trails and Straight by William MacLeod Raine

Men who have been out here some time have a dozen stories of similar near squeaks.
— from Carry On: Letters in War-Time by Coningsby Dawson

"He was shearing sheep, and could give no time to company; and when, late in the day, I drew rein at Janet's, and she said she was going to have a dance and could not look after sick folk, the pallid lips failed to return my despairing embrace; and in the terror which this brought me I went down, in the gathering twilight, into the deep valley where William raised his sheep and reckoned, day by day, the increase among his pigs.
— from The Amethyst Box by Anna Katharine Green

A moment later she, too, was obliged to hold a damp cloth before her eyes.
— from Third Warning A Mystery Story for Girls by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

The heaviest amounts due were to the stationer, printer, and advertising agents.
— from The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm by Anthony Trollope

For that matter she no longer praised anything he did, and took obvious pains to preserve toward him a distant demeanor.
— from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic

In spite of all the vauntings of people that have already discounted its fall, and are talking as if it needed no more to be reckoned with, that calm confidence is the spirit in which we are to look around and forward.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St. Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren