As if ashamed of her failure, Nature keeps this ungainly child hidden away at the ends of the earth, in the Straits of Magellan, and on the abased sea-story of Rodondo.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

It is evident at the outset that the Golden Bough was as much the property of the queen of that underworld called Hades as the Silver Branch was the gift of the Celtic fairy queen, and like the Silver Bough it seems to have been the symbolic bond between that world and this, offered as a tribute to Proserpine by all initiates, who made the mystic voyage in full human consciousness.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

We must, it is said, get back to the natural and fundamental laws of the State, which an unjust custom has abolished.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

On this Polites, whom I valued and trusted more than any other of my men, said, 'There is some one inside working at a loom and singing most beautifully; the whole place resounds with it, let us call her and see whether she is woman or goddess.'
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

Here, as the devil would have it, the pedlar snored so loud, that the highwayman, snatching his pistols, started up, crying, “Hell and d-n-n!
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

He had secretly persuaded 11 Placidia to recall Boniface from the government of Africa; he secretly advised Boniface to disobey the Imperial summons: to the one, he represented the order as a sentence of death; to the other, he stated the refusal as a signal of revolt; and when the credulous and unsuspectful count had armed the province in his defence, Aetius applauded his sagacity in foreseeing the rebellion, which his own perfidy had excited.
— 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

Dílì mi makasugnud ug bunut kay kusug muasu, We cannot use coconut husks as fuel because they give off too much smoke.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Thus the beautiful Bay of Quinte, with the most fertile land on its shores, and scenery which exceeds in variety and picturesque beauty that of any part of Upper Canada, Hamilton and Niagara alone excepted, has been passed by for years for situations much less desirable or attractive to European settlers.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

From these he modeled birds and butterflies that came ever nearer to the originals in nature as the wise praise of the uncles called his attention to possibilities of improvement and encouraged him to further effort.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

] Such a uniform conduct had already secured to Pertinax the noblest reward of a sovereign, the love and esteem of his people.
— 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

I saw that unlucky citizen hustled about, and finally collared and led off by a policeman, the people pursuing him with cries of 'Prussian!'
— from France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer

But saw not whence it was deriv'd, Sensless of Danger, or the mighty Hand, That could to cease, as well as blow, command, Let such unthinking Creatures have a Care, For some worse End prepare.
— from The Storm. An Essay. by Daniel Defoe

His father had left him £400 a year, which his friends had advised him to increase by being called to the bar; and as he found it, after due consideration, more trouble to oppose the wishes of these friends than to eat so many dinners, and to take a set of chambers in the Temple, he adopted the latter course, and unblushingly called himself a barrister.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The Scotch gentleman made a very capital dinner on crabs; but this change of diet was productive of unpleasant circumstances: he awoke in the night in that state in which Virgil describes Caeleno to have been, viz.
— from Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton

Everywhere the ministers gave us cordial help, and to them is owing very largely the success of our meetings.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 01, January, 1878 by Various

Then, with a clothes-line, I tied him up carefully, hand and foot.
— from Rudder Grange by Frank Richard Stockton

Tossing upon his uneasy couch, he again arranged in imagination, the combinations of great battles, again shouted his orders to rushing squadrons, and listened with brightening eye to the trumpet of victory.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Barrington could usually calculate his advent to a nicety.
— from The Raft by Coningsby Dawson