Success justified the step; the serious part of the question lay in the fact that we had to start housekeeping without any furniture of our own, and everything necessary for domestic purposes had to be procured, though we had not the wherewithal to get it.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Its splendid halls and suites of spacious apartments are floored with a mosaic-work of costly marbles; its windows, the whole height of each room, admit the sunshine through the most transparent of plate-glass; its high cornices are gilded, and its ceilings gorgeously painted; and a lofty dome—through which, from the central pavement, you may gaze up to the sky, as with no obstructing medium between—surmounts the whole.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I went home in a melancholy and reflective mood, wondering whether the whole had been concerted; but I concluded that this was impossible, as neither Branicki nor Binetti could have foreseen the impoliteness and cowardice of Tomatis.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

THEN Gawaine and Gaheris rode more than a pace after the white hart, and let slip at the hart three couple of greyhounds, and so they chased the hart into a castle, and in the chief place of the castle they slew the hart; Sir Gawaine and Gaheris followed after.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

The Reverend John Cabbagepate Watch'd o'er the corpse as if it were A treasure needing guardian care; And all the while, his looks elate, This language seem'd to hold: 'The dead will pay so much in gold, So much in lights of molten wax, So much in other sorts of tax:' With all he hoped to buy a cask of wine, The best which thereabouts produced the vine.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

But the judicious use which Mr. Bryant could make of this science is apparent in every part of his work: he derives from it the greatest and only light which can be cast upon some of his inquiries, and that in a way that will draw the admiration of those who have a proper acquaintance with the subject; that is, such as have a knowledge of the Oriental languages sufficient to enable them to trace them through the Greek, Latin, and other tongues, as they relate to the names of things, which in almost every country carry evidence of their being derived from the East; from whence it is certain mankind themselves are derived.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

Now that we have all of Mobile Bay that is valuable, I do not know
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

We were not joined by the rest of the party till we had taken three or four turns around the room; and then they were so quarrelsome, that Mrs. Mirvan complained of being fatigued and proposed going home.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Suppose that at the palestra somebody hath all to-torn thee with his nails, and hath broken thy head.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

She relates that while her mother was nursing her, she dreamt a dream and obtained in this dream possession of a piece of brocaded silk, on which were designs, in variegated colours, representing opulence and honour, and a continuous line of the character Wan; and that this reason accounts for the name of Wan Erh, which was given her."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

The women, however, did not join in the feast at that time.
— from The Lonely Island: The Refuge of the Mutineers by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Therefore when he began to speak there was quite a little thrill of wonder and something like incredulity through the listening benches.
— from Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

In the first place, when they are brought in, you instruct them on everything you do securitywise around the White House.
— from Warren Commission (02 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

They were her children—a family to be proud of.
— from Blue Bonnet in Boston; or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's by Lela Horn Richards

Being on the point of expiring, he rallied all his strength, and in imitation of his Master, prayed the Lord with a loud voice for the conversion of those who had treated him with such inhumanity.
— from The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the Mohawks by Ellen H. (Ellen Hardin) Walworth

Still, Ann did not have to work hard enough to hurt her.
— from The Pot of Gold, and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Now Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, out of the path through which the last of the Israelites were coming forth, when the billows that had been cloven by the rod of God, and made to stand in two walls like adamant, began to swell and heave, and all at once both edges of this sea-wall fell over like two mighty cataracts plunging and meeting, roaring and rushing together {589} each into the chasm wherein the whole host of Pharaoh—his captains, chariots, and horsemen—with their faces towards Egypt, were struggling to escape from the snare that God, in His just vengeance, had laid for them.
— from The Pillar of Fire; or, Israel in Bondage by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

As when one of a herd of deer is shot by a hunter and the others stand by it pityingly as it lies dying on the ground, uncertain of its mishap, though they would help it if they could; yet when they perceive the hunter they make quickly off and in a few minutes are again grazing happily a mile or two away: little or no more than this can primitive man be supposed to have been affected by the deaths of his fellows.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

Thus, in Carlyle's conception, "it is the essence of the poet to be new"; it is his mission "to wrench us from our old fixtures"; [Footnote: Carlyle on Goethe: Miscellanies , i. 291.] for it is only by so doing that he can show us some aspect of nature or of man's heart that was hidden from us before.
— from English literary criticism by Charles Edwyn Vaughan

But in this case I also must remark, 'T was well this bird of promise did not perch, Because the tackle of our shatter'd bark Was not so safe for roosting as a church; And had it been the dove from Noah's ark, Returning there from her successful search, Which in their way that moment chanced to fall, They would have eat her, olive-branch and all.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron