His hand was known In Heaven by many a towered structure high, Where sceptred Angels held their residence, And sat as Princes, whom the supreme King Exalted to such power, and gave to rule, Each in his Hierarchy, the Orders bright. Nor was his name unheard or unadored In ancient Greece; and in Ausonian land Men called him Mulciber; and how he fell From Heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day, and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, th' Aegaean isle.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

She was called Sigrid, and was afterwards married to the Swedish king, Eirik the Victorious, and had a son by him, called Olaf the Swede, who was afterwards king of Svithjod.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Anne was conscious of a pang of loneliness when she found herself in a room with fifty other students, not one of whom she knew, except the tall, brown-haired boy across the room; and knowing him in the fashion she did, did not help her much, as she reflected pessimistically.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Ihùhù ang sinapilya didtu sa kanal, Empty the shavings into the ditch.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The time for the visit was fixed for the afternoon of the next day, and I let the superioress know early the next morning.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Accompany me to my Hotel, and you shall know every thing.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Any schoolboy knows enough to object at once that it is the oldest and most universal of all theories.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Ang bumba sa túbig iarmar duul sa kanal, Emplace the water pump near the canal.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

At once it was seen that the death of the strong King Edward the First was a great stroke of good fortune for his equally strong opponent.
— from A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. by Clayton Edwards

[91:1] [Greek: Ton di' hêmas tou anthrôpous kai dia tên hêmeteran sôtêrian katelthonta ek tôn ouranôn, kai sarkôthenta ek Pneumatos Hagiou kai Marias tês parthenou, kai enanthrôpêsanta, k.t.l.]
— from The Lost Gospel and Its Contents Or, The Author of "Supernatural Religion" Refuted by Himself by M. F. (Michael Ferrebee) Sadler

A shadow kindly enveloped the woman, warming her heart with love for the unseen people, who in her imagination united into one huge person, full of inexhaustible, manly force.
— from Mother by Maksim Gorky

We'll sell the St. Kitts estate to the Germans.
— from Will Warburton by George Gissing

It will break her heart when she knows— Everard. ( to Margaret )
— from Mollentrave on Women: A comedy in three acts by Alfred Sutro

But Emma wanted a job, so she kept ’er thoughts to ’erself.
— from Idle Ideas in 1905 by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

They were more abundant in the more southern keys, except the sterile Tortugas.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

He conceded that Banneker had spherical knowledge enough to make almanacs, but not without the suspicion of aid from Ellicott who was his neighbor and friend, and never missed an opportunity of puffing him.
— from The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War by Carter Godwin Woodson