Now she longs to embrace him; and now, distracted, she can hardly contain herself.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

30 ‘O son,’ he answered, ‘no displeasure show, If now Brunetto Latini shall some way Step back with thee, and leave his troop to go.’
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

who, finding that the Scythian inhabitants had a native divinity somewhat resembling their own Artemis, identified her with the huntress-goddess of the mother-country.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

It is known by no particular name, and has assumed no definite shape; but its branches reach far and wide in the church and in the state.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

En su inseguro sueño, la imaginación le reproducía todo lo que había hecho aquella noche, desfigurándolo, sin alterarlo en su esencia.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

“Here are no dead,” said Heyward; “the storm seems not to have passed this way.”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

When it was supposed that the fire which surrounded the young heroine on all sides had reached her and no doubt suffocated her, although sufficient time had not elapsed for it to consume her body, a part of the blazing wood was withdrawn, "in order to remove any doubts from the people," and when the crowd had satisfied themselves by seeing her in the middle of the pile, "chained to the post and quite dead, the executioner replaced the fire...."
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

We have already noticed Dio's similarity to Thukydides in style, arrangement, and emotional attitude.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Alyosha walked slowly after him towards Mihailovsky Street, and for a long time he saw the child running in the distance as fast as ever, not turning his head, and no doubt still keeping up his tearful wail.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Mme. de Plougastel looked white and haggard, a nameless dread staring from her eyes.
— from Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution by Rafael Sabatini

She had seen [Pg 163] that gentle look of surprise in Miss Margaret’s mild eyes when she had placed John’s letter in her hand, and no doubt she would be yet more surprised when she asked her to inclose her own to him.
— from A Country Sweetheart by Dora Russell

Then he again left the lad, and whenever he tugged on the wire Joe answered with the agreed signal, and by this simple means Slippery had not only forced a harmless boy to do dangerous outpost duty, and was assured that he was always on guard, but what was most important, he had a noiseless danger signal that, even should the boy fail to kill somebody, he would thus notify the robbers that all was not well and give them plenty of time and a far better chance to make their getaway than the boy himself had, especially if he "shot to kill", as he had been commanded to do, which would have meant a long term behind the prison bars if not a trip by the route of the hangman's rope.
— from The Trail of the Tramp By A-No. 1, the Famous Tramp, Written by Himself from Actual Experiences of His Own Life by A-No. 1

Hence the conditions of warmth, light, and nutriment, required by such gigantic Protozoans would all be present, and hence, also no doubt, some of the peculiarities of its mineralization. NOTES TO CHAPTER V. (A.)
— from Life's Dawn on Earth Being the history of the oldest known fossil remains, and their relations to geological time and to the development of the animal kingdom by Dawson, John William, Sir

The house is what is generally termed haunted, and, no doubt, some people would be afraid to live in it.
— from Scottish Ghost Stories by Elliott O'Donnell

Death rained through every roof but his; children came into life, grew to maturity, wedded, faded away, threw themselves away; the whole drama of life was played in that stock-company's theatre of a dozen houses, one of which was his, and no deep sorrow or severe calamity ever entered his dwelling.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Even in his chapter, "Human Population in the Future," Mr. Spencer has attempted no detailed statement of the physical modifications inevitable to the production of higher moral types,—though his general statement in regard to a perfected nervous system, and a great diminution of human fertility, suggests that such moral evolution would signify a very considerable amount of physical change.
— from Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn

But after fifteen years of domestic "neglect," during which she doubtless benefited her husband by stirring in him a noble discontent, she passed from earth; and it was left for John Milton to repeat twice more his marital venture, with a similar result.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors by Elbert Hubbard