And such, he anticipates, will be the fate of his own work, which, however it may be admired in its day and held up as a model of purity, will in the course of years grow antiquated and obsolete, until it shall become almost as unintelligible in its native land as an Egyptian obelisk or one of those Runic inscriptions said to exist in the deserts of Tartary.”
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

I see the god, already, from the pole Bare his red arm, and bid the thunder roll; I see the Eternal all his fury shed, And shake his aegis o'er their guilty head.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Her grandson is so attentive to it that Rosa is shyer than ever—and prettier.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

This resemblance is said to exist even at the present day.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

The course and immediate consequence of the war itself have been set forth in many books, and are so well known as to render it superfluous to enter into any detail here.
— from The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 2 (of 2) As Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan by Alexander Michie

And the effect of the revelation is such that every young man who enters that room comes out with gray hair.
— from The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales Including Stories by Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, Jörgen Wilhelm Bergsöe and Bernhard Severin Ingemann by Various

378 In the Syrtes, also, of the ancients, two wide shallow gulfs, which penetrate very far within the northern coast of Africa, between Carthage and Cyrene, the rise is said to exceed five feet.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

If Protestantism has in the long run served the cause of liberty of conscience, the reason is simply that every heresy is an instance of liberty and of that enfranchisement which brings in its train a series of additional heresies.
— from The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau

He could do little more than to repeat, in substance, the evidence already given, but he made it stronger, more direct, more convincing.
— from The Guardsman by Homer Greene

Precautions were taken to prevent any dangerous communication with the continent; a committee was appointed to put the kingdom in a posture of defence; to exercise the powers of the regency in securing the enemies of the government; and the earl of Home, with sir Peter Fraser and sir Æneas Macpherson, were apprehended and imprisoned.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

It was the very extension of the Reform in Switzerland that exposed it to the dangers under which it sunk.
— from History of the Great Reformation, Volume 4 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

The rope is slipped, the end of the boom hauled close up to the shore and made fast again.
— from The Song of the Blood-Red Flower by Johannes Linnankoski