The pond itself is full of gold and silver fish, and is encircled by a broad belt of the softest turf I ever walked on.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

It yet stood, under the shade of the fine avenue of lime-trees, which forms one of the most frequent walks of the idlers of Marseilles, covered by an immense vine, which spreads its aged and blackened branches over the stone front, burnt yellow by the ardent sun of the south.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The Mitylenaeans, therefore, being excluded from the land, and being blockaded on the sea by many ships lying at anchor, sent to Pharnabazus and came to the following agreement:—That the auxiliary troops which had come to their aid from Alexander should depart, that the citizens should demolish the pillars on which the treaty made by them with Alexander was inscribed, 202 that they should become allies of Darius on the terms of the peace which was made with King Darius in the time of Antalcidas, 203 and that their exiles should return from banishment on condition of receiving back half the property which they possessed when they were banished.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

I have fought all night against the wicked temptation to desert my post in a cowardly manner before even meeting the enemy—not an enemy that can be fought with fire and blood, but one that stabs you smiling.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Then Sir Epinogris, son of the King of Northumberland, a knight of the castle, encountered Sir Ewaine, and both broke off their spears short to their hands.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

[A123; b5] have a big boil of this sort.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

IAGO No, forbear; The lethargy must have his quiet course: If not, he foams at mouth, and by and by Breaks out to savage madness.
— from Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare

If not, he foams at mouth, and by and by Breaks out to savage madness.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The day had ripened its beauty; beneath a purple heaven shone, sparkled, and laughed a blue sea, in whose waves the tropical sun seemed to have fused his beams; and beneath that fair, sinless, peaceful sky, wafted by a balmy breeze over those smiling, transparent, golden waves, a bloodthirsty Pirate bore down on them with a crew of human tigers; and a lady babble babble babble babble babble babble babbled in their quivering ears.
— from Hard Cash by Charles Reade

As I have said in the course of these Recollections, it was largely his unhappiness that held me, with others, as by a spell, and only too sadly in this particular did he in his last year realise his own picture of Dante at Verona: Yet of the twofold life he led In chainless thought and fettered will Some glimpses reach us,—somewhat still Of the steep stairs and bitter bread,— Of the soul’s quest whose stern avow For years had made him haggard now.
— from Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Caine, Hall, Sir

In one species, for example, A. Puella , the male is pale blue banded with black, and the female bronze black, with a blue band on the segment, bearing the sexual organ; the ovipositors are also separately decorated.
— from Colouration in Animals and Plants by Alfred Tylor

Based, as were these, upon conquest, and continued for a little life by the idealism of a single person, it seemed like a brilliant bubble on the stream of time.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 4 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

Besides, as “the ice has already been broken” on this side, your interview would be relieved in a measure of the formality incident to such occasions.
— from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet

Perhaps not, after all; but, because of the stormy night wind, sombrely sending its howl over the sombre heaths, he was not able ... to read his own thoughts plainly....
— from Dr. Adriaan by Louis Couperus

It has been said that Cuffe and Strand were old shipmates, the latter having actually been boatswain of the ship in which the former first sailed.
— from The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet by James Fenimore Cooper

For a long time they were at me to take a big block of treasury stock, but the road seemed to me in bad shape, so I wouldn't go in.
— from Calumet 'K' by Samuel Merwin

This failure of water must be chiefly ascribed to the general desiccation of the country, but partly also to the amount of irrigation carried on along both banks of the stream at the mission station.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone