This had escaped Antonia's observation, but not her Attendant's; Who explaining the Monk's designs and their probable consequences in terms much clearer than Elvira's, though not quite so delicate, had succeeded in alarming her young Lady, and persuading her to treat him more distantly than She had done hitherto.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

All the people fled to the forest, and they had emptied their houses of all household goods.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

If we may judge from Snorre's biography, Christianity appears to have effected very little change in the character of the Icelanders.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

Among the best known of the historical essays are those on Lord Clive, Chatham, Warren Hastings, Hallam's Constitutional History, Von Ranke's History of the Papacy, Frederick the Great, Horace Walpole, William Pitt, Sir William Temple, Machiavelli, and Mirabeau.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The situation of the house excluded the possibility of much prospect from any of the rooms; and while Fanny and some of the others were attending Mrs. Rushworth, Henry Crawford was looking grave and shaking his head at the windows.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

When they had ended their discourse, and returned to Heaven with the angelic spirits, there remained with the blessed Fursa, the three angels of whom we have spoken before, and who were to bring him back to the body.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

For although a Christian man instructed only in ecclesiastical literature may perhaps be ignorant of the very name of Platonists, and may not even know that there have existed two schools of philosophers speaking the Greek tongue, to wit, the Ionic and Italic, he is nevertheless not so deaf with respect to human affairs, as not to know that philosophers profess the study, and even the possession, of wisdom.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

When he saw her at last, so beautiful was she that his eyes were dazzled.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

They have each been flogged several times in the half-year for direct and wilful breaches of rules.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

For in the fight, when one fell, a mighty cry of the whole people striking him strongly, overcome by curiosity, and as if prepared to despise and be superior to it whatsoever it were, even when seen, he opened his eyes, and was stricken with a deeper wound in his soul than the other, whom he desired to behold, was in his body; and he fell more miserably than he upon whose fall that mighty noise was raised, which entered through his ears, and unlocked his eyes, to make way for the striking and beating down of a soul, bold rather than resolute, and the weaker, in that it had presumed on itself, which ought to have relied on Thee.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

In remote times and countries its evil tendencies had expressed themselves in the form of tyrannies, massacres, wars, and what not; but just at present in England they shaped as commercialism and competition, silk hats, suburban morals, the sweating system, and the subjection of women.
— from Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Then we thought how each spring, from remotest times this same battle-ground has been used by Nature's children to settle questions of gravest import to their race.
— from See America First by Charles J. Herr

Hearing this, the Dutch hastened to secure him, and on April 4, 1609, he sailed from Amsterdam in a yacht of eighty tons called the Half Moon and shaped rather like one, manned by a crew of twenty, half English and half Netherlanders, and John as cabin-boy.
— from Days of the Discoverers by Louise Lamprey

[936] A third statement goes back to his early youth and seeks to find the explanation of his later faults in a temptation succumbed to when he was little more than a boy.
— from Luther, vol. 3 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

No other reminder of the chase will bring back to memory so many pleasant recollections as the 56 head and horns of an old mountain ram after time has obliterated the memory of the hardships endured, and has woven around the trophy a halo through which the mind's eye sees again sublime views from lofty mountain peaks, roseate dawns and glowing sunsets, which bathed cliffs and crests and crags in a flood of molten gold.
— from Tracks and Tracking by Josef Brunner

Fish and fowl and flesh, great red joints upon the buffet, exquisite peaches from the hothouses, bunches of grapes that would have taken prizes in any show—how ironical to remember the class of man who usually sat to such a table, his ennui, his distaste, and the abstinence cure the physicians compelled him to practise.
— from The Lady Evelyn: A Story of To-day by Max Pemberton

This Lottie said with confidence, though she was notoriously indifferent to such cares, and declared, on other occasions, that she could not be troubled with flowers, they required so much looking after; but poor little Janet Merridew used to shake her head and groan with an innocent envy that would bring the tears to her eyes; not that {149} she wished to take anything from her neighbours, but she loved beautiful things so much, and they were so far out of her reach.
— from Neighbours on the Green by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Such is the only jealousy which Massasoit can be said ever to have entertained of the English.
— from Indian Biography; Vol. 1 (of 2) Or, An Historical Account of Those Individuals Who Have Been Distinguished among the North American Natives as Orators, Warriors, Statesmen, and Other Remarkable Characters by B. B. (Benjamin Bussey) Thatcher

The Collingwoods departed; and, after a decent time had elapsed, or what she deemed a decent time, Lady Cecilia was anxious to ascertain what progress had been made; how relatively to each other, Lady Blanche Forrester and Helen stood in Beauclerc’s opinion, or rather in his imagination.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Helen by Maria Edgeworth

Then answered unto him Thetis shedding tears: "Hephaistos, hath there verily been any of all goddesses in Olympus that hath endured so many grievous sorrows at heart as are the woes that Kronian Zeus hath laid upon me above all others?
— from The Iliad by Homer