His facial features, usually so emotionless, revealed a certain uneasiness.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Note 50 ( return ) [ {uon}: some Editors read {oion} "sheep," on the authority of one MS.]
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

In the end things must be as they are and have always been—the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The imperfect or pluperfect subjunctive is sometimes used, even when the leading verb is in a primary tense, to mark action more distinctly as non-occurrent ( 2091 ): as, eius negōtium sīc velim suscipiās, ut sī esset rēs mea , Fam.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

He was a man Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking Himself with princes; one that, by suggestion, Tied all the kingdom.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Here lies Blondeau, Blondeau the Nose, Blondeau Nasica, the ox of discipline, bos disciplinæ , the bloodhound of the password, the angel of the roll-call, who was upright, square, exact, rigid, honest, and hideous.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

He spoke: at once their fiery lances flew: Great Demoptolemus Ulysses slew; Euryades received the prince's dart; The goatherd's quiver'd in Pisander's heart; Fierce Elatus by thine, Eumaeus, falls; Their fall in thunder echoes round the walls.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

My unfortunate mother was yet more to pitied; for she pined with unmitigated sorrow, eternally reproaching herself for the danger to which her too strict silence had exposed me.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

de diocessi S. R. E. seu de patrimoniis iterum increpantes commonemus, ut si ea restituere noluerit hereticum eum pro hujusmodi errore perseverantia decernemus, (Epist.
— 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

The words "perhaps to cover up something else" returned to her mind, but she dismissed them angrily.
— from The Young Trailers: A Story of Early Kentucky by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Perhaps, en passant , one may say that his pilgrimage through Venice and Florence is so constantly in the scenes of tragedy that he is prone to sink almost into utter sadness, even, rather than seriousness.
— from Italy, the Magic Land by Lilian Whiting

The youngest inventor on record is Donald Murray Murphy, of St. John, Canada, who, at the age of six years, obtained from the United States exclusive rights in a sounding toy.
— from The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Alexander Francis Chamberlain

I offer in evidence Documents 2855-PS, 2854-PS, 2853-PS, and 2856-PS, as United States Exhibits respectively 98, 99, 100, and 101.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 3 by Various

" "I didn't think she would upset so easily," replied Charles.
— from The Boat Club; or, The Bunkers of Rippleton by Oliver Optic

See also U. S. ex rel.
— from The postal power of Congress: A study in constitutional expansion by Lindsay Rogers

England (John Bull) felt so badly about this that the British wanted to go to war on account of it, but when the United States eagle ruffled up its wings the English thought over the business and concluded not to fight.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

There are in the United States enormous regions that are fit for nothing but forests, but many of these, as in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, have simply been denuded of their trees and no provision has been made for their reproduction.
— from Wood and Forest by William Noyes