Unto his own Tattiana he, Incorrigible rogue, doth go.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Its figure is almost square, for from the one side of it, which shoots up almost to the top of the hill, it runs down, in a descent for two miles, to the river Anider; but it is a little broader the other way that runs along by the bank of that river.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

The Tree Igdrasil, that has its roots down in the Kingdoms of Hela and Death, and whose boughs overspread the highest Heaven—!
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

Such a compound person probably looks like A., is dressed like B., does something that one remembers of C., but in spite of this one is conscious that he is really D. By means of this compound formation something common to all four people is especially emphasized.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

To have no cloud between herself and Tom was still a perpetual yearning in her, that had its root deeper than all change.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Riding close to him I reached down from the saddle, and grasping his cartridge belt drew him up across the withers of my mount.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

And suppose once more, that he is reluctantly dragged up a steep and rugged ascent, and held fast until he is forced into the presence of the sun himself, is he not likely to be pained and irritated?
— from The Republic by Plato

There he is: royal Dublin fusiliers.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Bow to that hill in reverence due, And then once more your search pursue.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Distance is measured—mounted, from the croup of the horse in front to the head of the horse in rear; dismounted, from the back of the trooper in front to the breast of the trooper in rear.
— from Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Cavalry of the Army of the United States 1917. To be also used by Engineer Companies (Mounted) for Cavalry Instruction and Training by United States. War Department

"To prove that he is really dead and—to prove who killed him."
— from Heart of the Sunset by Rex Beach

"Monte gives a yell which they hears in Red Dog.
— from Faro Nell and Her Friends: Wolfville Stories by Alfred Henry Lewis

Further, the right hand is carried over after objects on the left side, [75] showing that habit in reaching does not determine its use.
— from The Story of the Mind by James Mark Baldwin

Hence its return to questions which were lately declared out of date and closed; hence its taste for problems of aesthetics and morality, its close siege of social and religious problems, its homesickness for a faith harmonising the powers of action and the powers of thought; hence its restless desire to hark back to tradition and discipline.
— from A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Edouard Le Roy

“Then, he is really dead?”
— from Within an Inch of His Life by Emile Gaboriau

“This is the first ride we have had together for so long that I could not bear to hurry it,” replied Davis, as he placed a restraining hand on Mauchacho’s bridle.
— from The Brand: A Tale of the Flathead Reservation by Therese Broderick

The herald is relating disaster after disaster; yet the elation of the poet pulses through his speech, and he cannot be sad.
— from Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 1 of 2) by John Addington Symonds