Her most bewitching smiles, her haughtiest frowns were ever received with the same immutable, careless good-humour; till, finding he was indeed impenetrable, she suddenly remitted her efforts, and became, to all appearance, as perfectly indifferent as himself.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

The brothers, when each rite was paid To him of birds supreme, Their hearts with new-found comfort stayed, And turned them from the stream.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

I now feel that I have reached a point of this narrative at which every reader will be startled into positive disbelief.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

I derected Labeech to Shoot it which he did, after Skinning this animal we Set out and proceeded on to a Sand bar on the S W. Side below the enterance of White earth river where I landed and had the meat Skins and bedding all put out to dry.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

wind hard from the N W. I halted on the N W. Side of this river in the bend above the white earth river, where I saw where the Indians had been digging a root which they eate and use in Seup, not more than 7 or 8 days past.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Trembling the miscreant stood, unarm’d and bound; He star’d, and roll’d his haggard eyes around, Then said: ‘Alas! what earth remains, what sea Is open to receive unhappy me?
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

As a translator his influence has been far wider than it could have been as a Bishop, and Chinese Christians will ever remember, with gratitude to God, the great scholar who out of [465] weakness was made strong—who laid so well and so truly the foundations of the Bible in their greatest vernacular, and in the more popular form of their written language."
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Others, again, painting with unity and lowering the tones of the colours, reducing to their proper places the lights and shades of their figures, deserve very great praise, and reveal the thoughts of the intellect with beautiful dexterity of mind; even as they were ever revealed with a sweet manner in the works of Tommaso di Stefano, called Giottino, who, being born in the year 1324 and having learnt from his father the first principles of painting, resolved while still very young to attempt, in so far as he might be able with assiduous study, to be an imitator of the manner of Giotto rather than of that of his father Stefano.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

G. W. E. Russell wrote his memoir for those who are personally familiar with Father Stanton’s ministry at St Albans, Holborn, or are otherwise deeply concerned in that union of Catholic sacramentalism and radical socialism which Father Stanton so fervidly represented, then the book is none too long; but for the ordinary reader, even for one who can find interest in a pretty strong dose of English ecclesiasticism, there is certainly three times too much of it.”
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

But you may ask, if we are to worship a personal God, why might not a conscious and religious hydra, with equal right, worship an infinite stomach, and the annelid a god of mere brute force?
— from The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John M. (John Mason) Tyler

At this, the Raven, who was hot to have the treasure of fire-water an' whose ears rang with cur'osity to hear the end of the Story-that-never-ends, saw that he must kill the Giant.
— from How The Raven Died 1902, From "Wolfville Nights" by Alfred Henry Lewis

A gentleman, actuated by curiosity, put one male and two female hares in a large garden, walled entirely round, where they had plenty to eat.
— from Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

France had shown sympathy with Egypt, Russia with Turkey.
— from A Short History of English Liberalism by W. Lyon (Walter Lyon) Blease

As he advanced down the Nile valley, he was everywhere received with acclamations.
— from Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson

We exchanged remarks with him in German for a few minutes, I limping along behind the more fluent Pousette and Bulle.
— from A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium by Hugh Gibson