The herringboning along the edges of the pattern, top and bottom, is also in red. Fig.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

There is one of that race, who is said to be the most formidable of all, called Managarm: he will be filled with the life-blood of men who draw near their end, and will swallow up the moon, and stain the heavens and the earth with blood.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

His music, his voice, his poetry in which he glorified God, the heavens and the earth, were a continual source of joy to the monks.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

An aperture large enough to allow a man to pass through had been made between the wall of the houses and the extremity of the barricade which was furthest from the wine-shop, so that an exit was possible at this point.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

This tempest and tribulation lasted about two hours, at the end of which he was left, not like his master, but so weak and exhausted that he could not stand.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

This was defeated with heavy loss by Ordoño before the walls of San Estevar de Gormaz, and the brave Arab general, seeing that the fight was lost, threw himself among the enemy, and died sword in hand.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

And the shoemaker was not allowed by us to be a husbandman, or a weaver, or a builder—in order that we might have our shoes well made; but to him and to every other worker was assigned one work for which he was by nature fitted, and at that he was to continue working all his life long and at no other; he was not to let opportunities slip, and then he would become a good workman.
— from The Republic by Plato

In the greatest excitement we returned to the house, all talking eagerly, and till late no one could be persuaded to retire to rest.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

He was also a reckless libertine, and, according to Dominici, having seduced a beautiful girl, he was seized with such remorse for his many crimes, as to become insupportable to himself; and to escape the general odium which was heaped upon him, he fled from Naples on board a ship, and was never heard of more.
— from Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Shearjashub Spooner

These phenomena continue until the sun enters the southern signs, when the polar current is reëstablished, because the difference between the heat at the equinoctial and temperate regions is daily increasing.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 6, December 1852 by Various

Leading poor sinners into a fine notion of some righteous character they have in themselves, what great advances they have made, and what high attainments they have arrived to, even to be perfect in themselves, to be free from sin, and full of nothing but love.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

This Hermolycos after these events, when there was war between the Athenians and the Carystians, was killed in battle at Kyrnos in the Carystian land near Geraistos, and there was buried.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 2 by Herodotus

Thus spoke Mrs. Marston, about as much to herself as to Erma, her head bent forward, her eyes cast down and her hand to her cheek, as if lost in deep meditation.
— from Overshadowed: A Novel by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs

They have taken with them to the grave their powers, their honors, and their errors; but they have left us their adoration.
— from Hospital Sketches by Robert Swain Peabody