He will try to appeal to their ambition, so that they might give the visitors a large amount of valuables and surpass all other occasions.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

In ordinary ones it goes direct to its object, overpowers with violence, and strangles and exhausts often at a single feast.
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Semiramis grew excited by so voluptuous a sight, and when the hour of Venus began I proceeded to the second assault, which would be the severest, as the hour was of sixty-five minutes.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

un lecho you’ll find only a bed do en dulce sueño yacer, where in sweet sleep you’ll lie y un velo azul suspendido and a blue veil suspended a las puertas del Edén.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

“I suppose I was very awkward,” said Anne apologetically, “but then, you see, I’d never had any practice.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The night at length separated them undecided as to victory; and such a panic seized both camps, from their uncertainty as to the issue, that, leaving behind their wounded and a great part of the baggage, both armies, as if vanquished, betook themselves to the adjoining mountains.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

From these central grounds rise downs of a rich black and dry soil, and very ample surface; and as they furnish abundance of grass and are conveniently watered, yet perfectly beyond the reach of those floods which take place on the flats in a season of rain, they constitute a sound and valuable sheep pasture."
— from The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Ernest Favenc

Make them consider every vice as shameful and unmanly.
— from Abigail Adams and Her Times by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

# In 1992 In 1992, with an extensive experience in Switzerland and California, Henk founded the Swiss Silicon Valley Association (SVA) and, since then, has been taking study groups to Silicon Valley, San Francisco and other high-tech areas like Los Angeles, Finland and China.
— from The eBook is 40 (1971-2011) by Marie Lebert

Perhaps they were incidents in the lives of the same children who cried over the pathetic morbidity of Hannah’s dying words; or possibly rhymes and verses about school and play hours of little Philadelphians; with pictures showing bait-the-bear, trap-ball, and other sports of days long since [127] passed away, as well as “I Spie Hi” and marbles, familiar still to boys and girls.
— from Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book by Rosalie Vrylina Halsey

Both claimed the victory and sang a Te Deum.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

A certain undefined hope, vague and shapeless as yet, made my heart beat wildly.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

"Doctor," said the General, in a feeble voice, as soon as they were alone, "I must know the whole truth.
— from The Cryptogram: A Novel by James De Mille

And this sort of Expressions is frequent in Theocritus , and Virgil , and in these the delicacy of Pastoral is principally contain’d, as one of the old Interpreters of Theocritus hath observ’d on this line, in the eighth Idyllium , Ye Vales, and Streams, a race Divine : But let them be so, and so seldom us’d, that nothing appear vehement, and bold, for Boldness and Vehemence destroy the sweetness which peculiarly commends Bucolicks , and in those Composures a constant care to be soft and easie should be chief: For Pastoral bears some resemblance to Terence , of whom Tully , in that Poem which he writes to Libo , gives this Character,
— from De Carmine Pastorali Prefixed to Thomas Creech's translation of the Idylliums of Theocritus (1684) by René Rapin

She is the eldest of the Tumleys, sister of George Hoskins' wife and to Joe Tumley, the little man with a voice as sweet as a skylark's.
— from Green Valley by Katharine Yirsa Reynolds