And all around were grown exceeding wroth At such a pertinacious infidel, And pour'd upon him and his sons like rain, Which they resisted like a sandy plain That drinks and still is dry.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

My good fortune threw into my hands a wonderfully provided youth, whose aptitude, as well as size and powers, it would be very difficult to match.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

He had been to Billingsgate Market in Thames Street, and to the new fish-market in Smithfield, and had seen the great piles of cod-fish, and skates, and soles, and plaice, and the boxes and baskets of white fresh herrings, and the beautiful shining mackerel, but he did not know how great was the number of herrings, and pilchards, and cod-fish that were also salted and put in barrels to be sent from England to foreign countries.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

And in that same place David saw the angel that smote the folk with a sword, and put it up bloody in the sheath.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Pausing at one time to look about him he saw, out at some black water, a small animal pounce in and emerge directly with a gleaming fish.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

The writing was done with a stylus, a pointed instrument like a pencil, made of bone or metal, with a knob at the other end.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

It has been the aim to give as wide a selection as possible, in order that the boy scout might not fail to find in the local public library, some book on any subject in which he may have particular interest.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

The King embraced the faire occasion, and with a strong Armie passed into Normandie .
— from The Lives of the III. Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by Hayward, John, Sir

Japanese carpenters saw by pulling the saw toward them instead of pushing it from them; the planes cut in the same way; and screws are put in by turning them to the left instead of the right.
— from The Gist of Japan: The Islands, Their People, and Missions by R. B. (Rufus Benton) Peery

This was a strange, and perhaps in some respects a painful, discovery for a young man to make.
— from A Son of the Soil by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Keep them on the surface of the water, if possible, and boil gently three or four minutes, dipping up some of the water with a spoon and pouring it over the tops of the eggs.
— from Canoe and Camp Cookery A Practical Cook Book for Canoeists, Corinthian Sailors and Outers by Seneca (Writer on outdoor life)

As if he understood her plight, the little old gentleman suddenly sprang aside to where was the sauce-box, snatched something out of it, ran to the other table and picked up an oblong leather case (a case exactly like the gold-mounted one in which Miss Royle kept her spectacles), put the something out of the sauce-box into the case, closed the case with a snap, and put it, with a swift motion, into Gwendolyn's hand.
— from The Poor Little Rich Girl by Eleanor Gates

What he enjoyed in decoration was the alternation of long sweeping curves and undulations with the concentrated energy of close-set spirals or bosses, and with these simple elements and with the suggestion of a few motives derived from Greek art he elaborated a most [pg 30] beautiful, subtle, and varied system of decoration, applied to weapons, ornaments, and to toilet and household appliances of all kinds, in gold, bronze, wood, and stone, and possibly, if we had the means of judging, to textile fabrics also.
— from Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston

"There is nothing else for me to do," he wrote to his sister, "but to tie up my manuscript with a string and put it in a drawer."
— from The life of Friedrich Nietzsche by Daniel Halévy

After having traced, at the top of a page: “This is my testament—” he arose with a shake and put it away from him, feeling himself incapable of forming two ideas, or of sufficient resolution to decide what was to be done.
— from Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant

While the milk of the reindeer, intended for making cheese, is warm, before the rennet is added to it, a film rises to the top, which is taken off carefully with a spoon, and put into the bladder of a reindeer.
— from Lachesis Lapponica; Or, A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Carl von Linné