But the father Titan, when he beheld the earth and the universe growing red, and the horns of the far-distant Moon, as if about to vanish, orders the swift Hours to yoke the horses.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Hakon advised him not to speak to any man so that this should be known; "for," said he, "it concerns thy life: and rather consider with thyself what thou art man enough to undertake; for to accomplish such a purpose requires a bold and firm man, who will neither stick at good nor evil to do that which is intended; for to take up great resolutions, and then to lay them aside, would only end in dishonour.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

But not until Rilla had traversed the Upper Glen Road and found herself in the moon-dappled solitude of Rainbow Valley did she fully recover her composure of spirit.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

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— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

The girls out there usually got rough and mannish after they went to herding.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

Punch (not the liquor, but the puppet) is not, I fear, of English origin; but there is no place, I take it, where he finds himself more at home or meets a more joyous welcome, where he collects greater crowds at the corners of streets, where he opens the eyes or distends the cheeks wider, or where the bangs and blows, the uncouth gestures, ridiculous anger and screaming voice of the chief performer excite more boundless merriment or louder bursts of laughter among all ranks and sorts of people.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

Let the unthinking golfer ruminate a little on this subject, and the day is not far distant when we shall never see such a thing as an excrescence on a golf ball.
— from The Soul of Golf by P. A. (Percy Adolphus) Vaile

The lining membrane of the uterus grows round and envelops it, and the wonderful process of cell division and multiplication proceeds which results in the growth and development of a child.
— from Men, Women, and God A Discussion of Sex Questions from the Christian Point of View by A. Herbert (Arthur Herbert) Gray

Other songs reached my ears each night, above the hissing and pounding of the Channel seas, but the unseen group returned always to this.
— from A Traveller in War-Time by Winston Churchill

Let others hail the tranquil stream, Whose glassy waters smoothly flow, And, in the undulating gleam, Reflect another world below!
— from Poems by Matilda Betham

That portion of the lash near the handle strikes the ground first, and then the long seal-skin thong unwinds, gaining rapidity and strength as the end is reached, and this strikes with such force as to make the snow fly, and with a report like a pistol.
— from Schwatka's Search: Sledging in the Arctic in Quest of the Franklin Records by William H. (William Henry) Gilder

The primary schools need no preliminary expense; the ultimate grade requires a considerable expenditure in advance.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson

The Upper Greensand runs across the county as a narrow and irregular band about 90 feet thick, and consists of green sands and grey marl, with beds of stone in places.
— from Berkshire by Horace Woollaston Monckton