Without making any effectual resistance, I suffered myself to be placed between two gentlemen of colossal dimensions; while a third, of a size larger, requesting pardon for the liberty he was about to take, threw himself upon my body at full length, and falling asleep in an instant, drowned all my guttural ejaculations for relief, in a snore which would have put to blush the roarings of the bull of Phalaris.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

On this point, at least, each is optimistic and insists that to knowledge the highest utility must be ascribed.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Such questions as these, he urged, might be asked by the inquisitive, and if counsel for the defence should happen to be a fool, and unacquainted with the ways of the sea, they might become involved in troublesome legal formulae.
— from The Book of Wonder by Lord Dunsany

[Pg 146] "My daughter," she said, "come to my arms and lay thy head upon my breast, and I will ease the trouble of thine heart."
— from Children of the Dawn : Old Tales of Greece by E. F. (Elsie Finnimore) Buckley

“It is, of course, possible that the view I take of Mr. Hardyman’s capacity to help us may be a mistaken one.
— from My Lady's Money by Wilkie Collins

She threw herself upon my bed, and wept aloud.
— from Discipline by Mary Brunton

I asked him what he did there; but instead of answering me, he made a sign for me to take him upon my back, and carry him over the brook, signifying that it was to gather fruit.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

300 Come, lay thy head upon my breast, And I will kiss thee into rest, Since words of mine, and songs must fail, Ev'n from my fabled nightingale.
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron