At one moment the word rose on the end of her tongue, at another it fluttered back deep within her breast.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

When everybody had eaten as much as possible, the cloth was removed, bottles, glasses, and dessert were placed on the table; and the waiters withdrew to ‘clear away,’ or in other words, to appropriate to their own private use and emolument whatever remnants of the eatables and drinkables they could contrive to lay their hands on.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The wicked queen her speech renewed, When rolling on the earth she viewed Ikshváku's son, Ayodhyá's king, For his dear Ráma sorrowing: “Why, by a simple promise bound, Liest thou prostrate on the ground, As though a grievous sin dismayed Thy spirit!
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Many of the forms living on the mountains of the warmer regions of the earth and in the southern hemisphere are of doubtful value, being ranked by some naturalists as specifically distinct, by others as varieties; but some are certainly identical, and many, though closely related to northern forms, must be ranked as distinct species.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Its right wing rises on the edge of the Kingfishers’ River.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

The like madness does sometimes push on a whole multitude; for in one of the encounters that Germanicus had with the Germans, two great parties were so amazed with fear that they ran two opposite ways, the one to the same place from which the other had fled.—[Tacit, Annal., i. 63.]—Sometimes it adds wings to the heels, as in the two first: sometimes it nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving; as we read of the Emperor Theophilus, who, in a battle he lost against the Agarenes, was so astonished and stupefied that he had no power to fly— “Adeo pavor etiam auxilia formidat”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

It may be followed by a civilisation that won’t be a movement, because it will rest on the earth.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

He did not precisely rise; he remained in a stooping and frightened attitude, with his back turned to the heap of dead, scanning the horizon on his knees, with the whole upper portion of his body supported on his two forefingers, which rested on the earth, and his head peering above the edge of the hollow road.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

When we read of the extraordinary solidarity which animated, over a much larger area, the equally separate clans of Gaul in their rising against the Roman yoke a year later, there is nothing incredible, or even improbable, in the Britons having developed something of a like solidarity in their resistance to its being laid upon their necks.
— from Early Britain—Roman Britain by John William Edward Conybeare

He established himself unobserved in a temporary position on the crest, within reach of the enemy, who attempted to dispossess him and failed; and it was he who (according to the story) signalled to Alexander.
— from The Gates of India: Being an Historical Narrative by Holdich, Thomas Hungerford, Sir

He came to the house, forgetting certain confidences, and was reminded of the existence of a Mrs. Chitterlow (with the finest completely untrained Contralto voice in England) by her appearance.
— from Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

We were now within range of the enemy’s guns, and fifteen pieces of artillery opened upon us, and were answered by our cannon.
— from The Battles of the British Army Being a Popular Account of All the Principal Engagements During the Last Hundred Years by Robert Melvin Blackwood

Isidore and his colleagues were welcomed with great demonstrations of joy, and after several meetings with representatives of the Eastern Church terms of union were once more devised.
— from Byzantine Churches in Constantinople: Their History and Architecture by Alexander Van Millingen

He was reminded of the experience of himself and Otto Relstaub when, some weeks before, they were made captives by the Sauks, within a short distance of Martinsville.
— from Footprints in the Forest by Edward Sylvester Ellis

He made a treaty with Russia on the eastern border, and asked Austria to join him in fighting the Danes.
— from The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France by Edward Parrott

But if the substance of our blastosphere be sufficiently viscous, then osmotic forces may set up currents which, reacting on the external fluid pressure, may easily cause modifications of shape; and the particular case of invagination itself will not be difficult to account for on this assumption of non-uniform exudation and imbibition.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

But the other ten conventions are entirely new and concern: the limitation of the employment of force for the recovery of contract debts, the opening of hostilities, the rights and duties of neutral Powers and persons in war on land, the status of enemy merchant ships at the outbreak of hostilities, the conversion of merchant ships into war ships, the laying of automatic submarine contact mines, bombardments by naval forces in time of war, restrictions on the exercise of the right of capture in maritime war, the establishment of a Prize Court, the rights and duties of neutral Powers in maritime war.
— from International Law. A Treatise. Volume 1 (of 2) Peace. Second Edition by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim