His heart was bitter, for his wife and little son had starved to death on the mountain side, but he thought of the thousands who were already on their long march into exile and then he looked round upon his little band of followers.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Diocles, the Magnesian, tells us that Ariston having fallen in with Polemo, passed over to his school, at a time when Zeno was lying ill with a long sickness.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

We might provisionally, though perhaps not quite correctly, define "memory" as that way of knowing about the past which has no analogue in our knowledge of the future; such a definition would at least serve to mark the problem with which we are concerned, though some expectations may deserve to rank with memory as regards immediacy.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

His pangs the Bard refused to own, Tho' half he wish'd Clarinda knew; But Anguish wrung the unweeting groan— Who blames what frantic Pain must do? That heart, where motley follies blend, Was sternly still to Honour true: To prove Clarinda's fondest friend, Was what a lover sure might do.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

His person was long, straight, and sinewy, and there was a light springiness and elasticity in his step which would have suited a younger man, as he skipped along with a long handspike over his shoulder.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

The same fixity of idea in regard to the inherent dignity and power of the Crown that characterized him characterized them, together with a like sterling uprightness which commanded respect even when a line of action was adopted that seemed to tend, and did in reality tend, to a popular outbreak.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

The younger males being thus driven out and wandering about would also, when at last successful in finding a partner, prevent too close breeding within the limits of the same family”
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

The force he employed to sustain the central power was a large standing army, at the head of which stood his select body-guard of Slavs , or purchased foreigners.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

Margaret was a little surprised, and very much pleased, when she found her father and Higgins in [136] earnest conversation—each speaking with gentle politeness to the other, however their opinions might clash.
— from Mrs. Gaskell by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

She was a little, slender figure with a pretty little oval face in which two very soft brown eyes made a mute appeal for sympathy.
— from The Adventures of M. D'Haricot by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston

it was the postman—the postman, drenched and sullen, hiding his crimson glories under an oilskin cape; and it was a letter, solemn and mysterious, in an unknown hand—a big blue letter, addressed to Miss Atheling.
— from The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Complete by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Miss Torrance sat very still, one hand on the switch, and another on the bridle, looking at him with a little scornful smile on her lips.
— from The Cattle-Baron's Daughter by Harold Bindloss

That was a long speech for Dave, the longest that he made during the Doctor's illness.
— from Georgina of the Rainbows by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

Mix well and let stand twelve hours.
— from One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed by C. A. Bogardus