So soon as the spasm ceased and the raving lips sank to silence, Aeneas the hero begins: 'No shape of toil, O maiden, rises strange or sudden on my sight; all this ere now have I guessed and inly rehearsed in spirit.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

As the old man, Riah, sat by, helping her in such small ways as he could, he found it difficult to make out whether she really did realize that the deceased had been her father.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

In fact, as it [pg 197] afterwards turned out, M. Roches so far committed himself with the Baku-fu that he found it impossible to remain one day longer in Japan after its final overthrow.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Granted the previous actions which you surmise, anything may be expected!” The old man remained silent from inability to answer these questions.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

From amongst the venerable heads and ancestral forms which recur to us, as we gaze down in imagination from the galleries of the old wooden St. James', of York, we will single out, in addition to those already spoken of, that of Mr. Ridout, sometimes Surveyor-General of the Province, father of a numerous progeny, and tribal head, so to speak, of more than one family of connections settled here, bearing the same name.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Never did the flame of enthusiasm burn with fiercer and more destructive rage; nor could the true believers, a common appellation, who consecrated their own martyrs, refuse some applause to the mistaken zeal and courage of their adversaries.
— 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

By this time the spider had caught the fly, whose cries sounded to me like the waters of the sawmill; the tips of my red shoes looked like the red berries which grew near the mine; the two old ladies at my side were transformed into two tall black walnut trees, while I seemed to be sliding down-hill.
— from Homestead on the Hillside by Mary Jane Holmes

AN INTERLUDE And at the corner of Dam Straat, where the low postern gate cuts into the tall stuccoed wall, there once more reigned silence as of the grave.
— from The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

She made a graceful Italian translation of Moses Rieti's Sefer ha-Hechal , a Hebrew poem written in imitation of the Divina Commedia , and enjoying much favor at Rome.
— from Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Gustav Karpeles

No mountain charms have I to sing, No loftier minstrel's rights invade; From trifles oft my raptures spring; —Sweet Barnham Water wants a shade MARY'S EVENING SIGH
— from Wild Flowers; or, Pastoral and Local Poetry by Robert Bloomfield

After he had smoked, the other man replied, saying, ‘Brother, it is well.
— from Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people by George Bird Grinnell

"Thine own blood shall make satisfaction for those of my race slain by thy warriors when last we marched upon thy kingdom."
— from The Great White Queen: A Tale of Treasure and Treason by William Le Queux

Till the old moon rose, sad behind tulip-trees, they sat on packing-boxes by the larger hangar, singing in close harmony "Sweet Adeline," "Teasing," "I've Been Working on the Railroad."...
— from The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis