And now, arrayed in all the panoply of her irresistible charms, the nymphs escort her to the dazzling halls of Olympus, where she is received with ecstatic enthusiasm by the admiring gods and goddesses.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Then would he recommend to the multifarious company, whether traveller from the city, or teamster from the hills, or neighboring squire, or the landlord himself, or his loutish hostler, works suited to each particular taste and capacity, proving, all the while, by acute criticism and profound remark, that the lore in his books was even exceeded by that in his brain.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"I told him that was easy enough, but I began to think my first thoughts of him might have been right enough, after all, and that he couldn't have been up to no good to want to sneak away so precious quiet.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

But my memory has been drawn out of me, with everything else, by what I mentioned.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

But the ruin of the churches was easily effected by the authority of the government, and by the labor of the Pagans.
— 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

By the influence of the court of Rome, the next convocation at Sienna was easily eluded; but the bold and vigorous proceedings of the council of Basil 39 had almost been fatal to the reigning pontiff, Eugenius the Fourth.
— 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

"Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend, Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies."
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

This fair occasion of injuring a rival, and of advancing the fortune of his son, was eagerly embraced by the inhuman Maximin, the præfect, or rather tyrant, of Gaul.
— 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 fairy made choice of one of the three which had the largest beard, and, having touched him with her wand, he was turned into a fat, jolly coachman, who had the smartest whiskers eyes ever beheld.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Fortunately it had been turned aside in its course, and lay only a little way beneath the skin, so that it was easily extracted by means of a penknife.
— from Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The Pope was then at great contention with Henry the fourth Emperour, who had bene excommunicated before by Hildebrand , and was then againe excommunicate by Vrbane : being the first Christian Prince with Souereigne power, who was euer excommunicate by any Pope.
— from The Lives of the III. Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by Hayward, John, Sir

There is the dog who will not cross the street even when his master calls him, but crouches on the edge of the curb and waits with eager eyes but immovable body, till that master comes back. Isn't that so, Mr. Moore?
— from The Filigree Ball Being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore affair by Anna Katharine Green

And there is not a park, whether older or more recent than the groves of Jumièges, which does not exhibit the same forms with equal exactitude; but what Nature could not give was the prodigious art, the deep symbolical knowledge, the over-strung but tranquil mysticism of the believers who erected cathedrals.
— from The Cathedral by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

Their manners are beautiful, and when they have got hold of a choice morsel they take it in their paws, and sitting on their haunches eat it with evident enjoyment, but with a certain polish and grace of manner pretty to see.
— from India and the Indians by Edward Fenton Elwin

Walking the hills homeward with Ebn Ezra Bey, Luke, Faith, and John Fairley, David kept saying over to himself the words of Benn Claridge: "I have called thee so often of late.
— from The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 1 by Gilbert Parker

as the hideous coils unclasped, the amazement of Rustem was truly great as he gazed at the monstrous form which extended endlessly before him; and he wondered not that for centuries it should have been known unto men as the scourge of the desert.
— from The Story of Rustem, and other Persian hero tales from Firdusi by Elizabeth D. Renninger

Both burley and rotary were extremely efficient, but neither was either quiet or gentle.
— from First Lensman by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

If the steam, therefore, be cut off at half stroke, the number of cubic feet of space in the cylinder will be equal to the number of cubic feet of water effectively evaporated by the boiler; and if a cubic foot of water effectively evaporated be taken as the measure of a horse-power, then there would be as many cubic feet in the capacity of the cylinder as is equal to the nominal power of the engine.
— from The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (Seventh Edition) With an Account of Its Invention and Progressive Improvement, and Its Application to Navigation and Railways; Including Also a Memoir of Watt by Dionysius Lardner