In England and France the king of the fairies was known by the name of Oberon; he governed fairyland with his queen Titania, and the highest revels on earth were held on Midsummer night.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

Mr Codlin, still doomed to contemplate the harsh realities of existence, was packing among his linen the candle-ends which had been saved from the previous night’s performance; while his companion received the compliments of all the loungers in the stable-yard, who, unable to separate him from the master-mind of Punch, set him down as next in importance to that merry outlaw, and loved him scarcely less.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

'T is pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes—that is, I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case, at least, where I have been; They smile so when one 's right, and when one 's wrong They smile still more, and then there intervene Pressure of hands, perhaps even a chaste kiss;— I learn'd the little that I know by this: That is, some words of Spanish, Turk, and Greek, Italian not at all, having no teachers; Much English I cannot pretend to speak, Learning that language chiefly from its preachers, Barrow, South, Tillotson, whom every week I study, also Blair, the highest reachers Of eloquence in piety and prose— I hate your poets, so read none of those.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

He listened eagerly to his recital of everything, till at last, when his own god was named, he could not endure him to be unfavourably judged.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

But since correction lieth in those hands Which made the fault that we cannot correct, Put we our quarrel to the will of heaven; Who, when they see the hours ripe on earth, Will rain hot vengeance on offenders' heads.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“Count,” said Morrel, in a firm and at the same time soft voice, “listen to me, as to a man whose thoughts are raised to heaven, though he remains on earth; I come to die in the arms of a friend.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Kerry was tall, with humorous gray eyes, and a sudden, attractive smile; he became at once the mentor of the house, reaper of ears that grew too high, censor of conceit, vendor of rare, satirical humor.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

[626-660] seventh summer now declines since Troy's overthrow, while we pass measuring out by so many stars the harbourless rocks over every water and land, pursuing all the while over the vast sea an Italy that flies us, and tossing on the waves.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

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— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

I see you now as this afternoon at the Goodriches', when you came in triumphantly to essay that hot room of empty, passive folk.
— from Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by Robert Herrick

In the marvellous ordering of divine providence nothing is more calculated than fatherhood and motherhood to lift human life into the high ranges of experience and feeling.
— from The Expositor's Bible: Judges and Ruth by Robert A. (Robert Alexander) Watson

Being at an anker in the iland of Plon, tarrying for a wind to followe their voyage, with great desire to come thither whereas they might vnderstande what had happened vnto Limahon, at the same time entred into the saide harbor a shippe with fishermen; they beleeuing that hee had beene one of the ilands, [34] they went vnto him and asked of whence [115] they were, and from whence they came, and what newes they coulde say of Limahon (who was knowne vnto them all, either by some harme that they had receiued, or else by report of others that had receiued hurt).
— from The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume 2 (of 2) by Juan González de Mendoza

Wittemore came to his room one evening, his face grayer, more strained and horse-like than ever.
— from The Witness by Grace Livingston Hill

"We've got to sit in the middle of this here raft, or else she'll tilt over.
— from The Old Tobacco Shop A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen

In January, 1856, he found them so abundant among the willows growing on the islands in the delta of the Willamette, that he readily obtained eight specimens in the space of an hour.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

In some of the Egyptian sculptures the three hindermost rowers on each side are seen steering the vessel with their oars.
— from The Evolution of Culture, and Other Essays by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers

A sort of dream-daughter, dear yet far removed from the hard realities of every-day familiarity.
— from Red Rowans by Flora Annie Webster Steel

You would never find the Hotel Robinsons of Europe.
— from Aliens by William McFee

THE HUNDRED ROLLS OF EDWARD I., EMBRACING FIVE MIDLAND COUNTIES.
— from The English Village Community Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition) by Frederic Seebohm