Close under the flanking camp lay the fleet, fenced about with mounds and the waters of the river; it he attacks, and calls for fire to his exultant comrades, and eagerly catches a blazing pine-torch in his hand.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

His Siamese majesty immediately ordered his best unoccupied building to be prepared for us, (and it certainly is the best on the river;) two of his best war-boats to be sent to bring us to the city, and a feast to be prepared by the governor of Packnam; and on our arrival at the house, every comfort and every luxury were spread on the table; and cook, purveyor, servants, interpreters, and guards, at our service.
— from Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat In the U. S. Sloop-of-war Peacock, David Geisinger, Commander, During the Years 1832-3-4 by Edmund Roberts

It is the ability to use large and solid masses of iron and steel, free from holes and seams, that has enabled constructors and engineers to produce the tremendous engineering structures that characterize today.
— from Invention: The Master-key to Progress by Bradley A. (Bradley Allen) Fiske

Then her eyes closed, and Edwin was aware of a slackening of her hold on his hand.
— from These Twain by Arnold Bennett

As the Austrian envoy at the Swedish court whispered to his English colleague, "All Europe would see the fall of these people here without regret."
— from Napoleon's Marshals by R. P. Dunn-Pattison

Since Alice's death Parry had transferred his entire confidence and esteem to Ellen; whether from feeling a want, or because love and tenderness had taught her the touch and the tone that were fitted to win his regard.
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

I answer, and I think not unjustifiably, the idea that the analytic, discursive, generalizing intellect, is adequate to solve all solvable problems—that it is the only reliable means of arriving at a positive knowledge; that, accordingly, education, the highest education, consists almost exclusively in learning and in being trained to discover and apply, the laws, so called, of nature, to trace facts to their (scientific) causes and to advance logically from causes to facts—that upon which the analyzing and generalizing intellect cannot be exercised, being set down as unknowable.
— from The Voice and Spiritual Education by Hiram Corson

He does this three times, his eyes closed, and every time he misses, or hits his opponent's marble, he has to put his knuckles up on his side of the hole while the loser shoots at them.
— from Harper's Round Table, August 27, 1895 by Various

This he expounds confidently and enthusiastically in his "Life of Moses."
— from Philo-Judæus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich

In December and January two historical events caused an excitement into which Julia threw herself so whole-heartedly that for a time she managed to forget her personal life; taking pains to become intimate with every detail, she was obligingly conversed with by some of the important older men at Bosquith, and pronounced by the younger to be “waking up.”
— from Julia France and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton