According to other authorities, Uller was Balder’s special friend, principally because he too spent part of the year in the dismal depths of Nifl-heim, with Hel, the goddess of death.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

Walke in a meddowe by a Rivers side, Upon whose Bancks Grow milk-white Ranks Of full blown Lyllies in their height of Pryde, [pg 456] Which downward bend 30 And nothing tend Save their owne Bewties in the Glassie streame: Looke to yo r selfe: Compare yo r selfe to them. 5.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

It has waited for you two whole days.' Monks muttered some unintelligible words, but wavered still.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

For He shall come manifestly to judge justly the just and the unjust, who before came hiddenly to be unjustly judged by the unjust.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

" We thus see that the first stages of the transit of the eye from one side of the head to the other, which Mr. Mivart considers would be injurious, may be attributed to the habit, no doubt beneficial to the individual and to the species, of endeavouring to look upward with both eyes, while resting on one side at the bottom.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

And, on the other hand, for most of us, a world with no such inner refuge when the outer social self failed and dropped from us would be the abyss of horror.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

There stood a tall man behind a grating, leaning against a stove, and holding up with both hands the tails of a vast topcoat, with three collars.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Upon what basis it rested, I could never ascertain; and hence, how true it is I cannot now tell.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

In other cases the sportsman is represented with a crossbow seated in a cart, all covered up with boughs, by which plan he was supposed to approach the prey without alarming it any more than a swinging branch would do ( Fig. 135 ).
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

It is impossible to observe all these miscellaneous movements going on all around us without being struck by the similarity of aim between them; each seems to form part of a common plan, which, like the separate pieces of a jig-saw puzzle, convey no meaning, but when fitted together make up a perfectly clear design.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

While he was the only speaker in this presidential campaign that was disrespectful to the union, often calling it in derision “the gullorious,” and he gave no promise that withdrawal from the union would be peaceful, and so appeared to be to himself and alone, he was really the only one riding the waves of the undercurrent rising every day nearer the surface, and soon to sweep all of us onward upon its raging waters.
— from The Brothers' War by John C. (John Calvin) Reed

The American army under Washington, beaten and discouraged, but always ready and able to fight, was on the other side of the Delaware, at a point a few miles above Trenton.
— from The Mentor: The Revolution, Vol. 1, Num. 43, Serial No. 43 The Story of America in Pictures by Albert Bushnell Hart

Along the whole road, on either side, a line of halberdiers was drawn up, while barriers were erected against the cross streets.
— from Guy Fawkes; or, The Gunpowder Treason: An Historical Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth

For if we consult the passage above referred to in his comedy Pax , we shall find that, first, Hermês tells the story about Pheidias, Periklês, and the Peloponnesian war; upon which both Trygæus, and the Chorus, remark that they never heard a word of it before : that it is quite new to them.
— from History of Greece, Volume 06 (of 12) by George Grote

Let him mention a few of those incidents, and the most doubting among us will be satisfied.”
— from Harry Escombe: A Tale of Adventure in Peru by Harry Collingwood

With her face in the furs under which baby Joan was buried, there came to her with swiftness and joy a vision of warmth and home.
— from Kazan by James Oliver Curwood

The first writer of compositions under this title whose name is known to us was Busnois, and in the same collection are compositions of the same class by many other composers of the Netherlandish schools.
— from A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews

I sincerely hope that the {316} spirit of the conference will abide with us, will go with us to our homes, and that we will be able to continue to build on the foundations of the gospel of the Son of God until we become perfect, even as our Father in heaven is perfect, according to the sphere and intelligence that we act in and possess.
— from Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith by Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding) Smith

Five days after we let go our ground tackle three sail were seen standing into the bay, and we were summoned to get the frigate under way, but the order was countermanded when those on the foremost ship lowered a boat as if to come ashore.
— from With Porter in the Essex A Story of His Famous Cruise in the Southern Waters During the War of 1812 by James Otis