“You heard probably of the heroic exploit of Raévski, embracing his two sons and saying: ‘I will perish with them but we will not be shaken!’
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Instead of reducing the warlike natives of Germany to the condition of subjects, Probus contented himself with the humble expedient of raising a bulwark against their inroads.
— 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

Whether from love of form, or from curiosity, the marshals paid no attention to his expressions of reluctance, but unhelmed him by cutting the laces of his casque, and undoing the fastening of his gorget.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Thus Hastings' Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics omits all reference to Satanism before 1880 and observes: "The evidence of the existence of either Satanists or Palladists consists entirely of the writings of a group of men in Paris."
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

She did not take her eyes off Raskolnikov, feeling that all her safety lay in him.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The hypothetical exercise of reason by the aid of ideas employed as problematical conceptions is properly not constitutive.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

But the Greeks soon forgot this humiliating equality, or remembered it only to hate the Barbarians by whom it was extorted.
— 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

Is it to be regarded only as a combat against fears and pains, or also against desires and pleasures, and against flatteries; which exercise such a tremendous power, that they make the hearts even of respectable citizens to melt like wax? MEGILLUS: I should say the latter.
— from Laws by Plato

But it may more aptly be assimilated to the times of old, and to those hideous eras of Roman oppression, when the manners of the people were corrupted, their traditions obliterated, their habits destroyed, their opinions shaken, and freedom, expelled from the laws, could find no refuge in the land; when nothing protected the citizens, and the citizens no longer protected themselves; when human nature was the sport of man, and princes wearied out the clemency of Heaven before they exhausted the patience of their subjects.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

“Would it not be better,” she asked, creeping to my arms, and laying her head on my shoulder, “would it not be better for me to make sure of that uncle’s favor first, before undertaking the hazardous experiment of running away with a too ardent lover?” Struck by her manner, I lifted her face and looked at it.
— from The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green

If it could be discovered without a divine revelation, or by the highest efforts of reason—how could a divine revelation be absolutely necessary?—The essential glories therefore, and perfections of the Deity cannot be discovered by natural reason:—those glories and perfections which make him what he is, or constitute his infinite moral amiableness and transcendant excellence, and worthiness to receive from all intelligent creatures all the services, which they are capable of rendering unto him.
— from Twenty-four Discourses On Some of the Important and Interesting Truths, Duties, and Institutions, of the Gospel, and the General Excellency of the Christian Religion; Calculated for the People of God of Every Communion, Particularly for the Benefit of Pious Families, and the Instruction of All in the Things Which Concern Their Salvation by Nathan Perkins

The bar-keeper settled down gracefully behind the bags of sand, so that his eyes only remained visible above the horizon.
— from First Fam'lies of the Sierras by Joaquin Miller

At this news, the whole populace, passed from despair to hope, every one ran to the river to wash and to anoint themselves with scum that had appeared so deadly a moment before.
— from History of the Kingdom of Siam and of the revolutions that have caused the overthrow of the empire, up to A. D. 1770 by F. H. (François Henri) Turpin

When evening came all left the cottages for the little castle, and the pastoral recreations gave way to the higher enjoyments of refined society.
— from Empress Josephine: An Historical Sketch of the Days of Napoleon by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

The good little father, his socius, did not take his eye off Rodin, and his look had a strange and crafty expression.
— from The Wandering Jew — Volume 11 by Eugène Sue

Ecbatana lies at the foot of the high Elburs (Orontes) range of mountains in the neighborhood of the modern Hamadan; Pasargadae not far from Rachmet in the highlands of Iran] "And these boys, so simply and severely brought up, become in after life such luxurious men?"
— from An Egyptian Princess — Volume 04 by Georg Ebers

Circumstances had long taught Margaret to suffer in silence: she found then no difficulty in assuming a composure of manner that she did not always feel; and soon the healing effects of repose and time were visible in her demeanour.
— from Margaret Capel: A Novel, vol. 3 of 3 by Ellen Wallace

Glances which the haughty eyes of Rome threw sometimes gently and relentingly aside on man or woman, children or the flowers.
— from The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Thomas De Quincey