You are come hither to visit the curiosities of Paris.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

When I came out of prison—for some one interfered, and paid that tax—I did not perceive that great changes had taken place on the common, such as he observed who went in a youth and emerged a tottering and gray-headed man; and yet a change had to my eyes come over the scene—the town, and State, and country—greater than any that mere time could effect.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

When I came out of prison,—for some one interfered, and paid the tax,—I did not perceive that great changes had taken place on the common, such as he observed who went in a youth, and emerged a gray-headed man; and yet a change had to my eyes come over the scene,—the town, and State, and country,—greater than any that mere time could effect.
— from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

However, she contained herself and awaited what Federigo should reply, who, after weeping awhile, made answer thus: 'Madam, since it pleased God that I should set my love on you, I have in many things reputed fortune contrary to me and have complained of her; but all the ill turns she hath done me have been a light matter in comparison with that which she doth me at this present and for which I can never more be reconciled to her, considering that you are come hither to my poor house, whereas you deigned not to come what while I was rich, and seek of me a little boon, the which she hath so wrought that I cannot grant you; and why this cannot be I will tell you briefly.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Accordingly, casting away the sword, which he had already pulled out to smite him, and lighting down from his horse, he ran, weeping, to throw himself at Nathan's feet and said to him, 'Now, dearest father, do I manifestly recognize your liberality, considering with what secrecy you are come hither to give me your life, whereof, without any reason, I showed myself desirous, and that to yourself; but God, more careful of mine honour than I myself, hath, in the extremest hour of need, opened the eyes of my understanding, which vile envy had closed.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Pronounce but Love and dove; Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word, One nickname for her purblind son and heir, Young Abraham Cupid, he that shot so trim When King Cophetua lov’d the beggar-maid.
— from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The great monkey Hanumant, of the reddish colour of gold, has his jaw broken, Indras having struck him with his thunderbolt and caused him to fall upon a mountain, because, while yet a child, he threw himself off a mountain into the air in order to arrest the course of the sun, whose rays had no effect upon him.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Then Yang Jên, armed with his magic fan, pursued Lü Yüeh and compelled him to retreat to his fortress.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Its days are of many types, and it spreads them out before us like a patient shopkeeper,—as if it recognized in the Yankee a customer hard to suit.
— from A Rambler's lease by Bradford Torrey

The law in fact is the same to you as it is to the rich man; it is the same to the low and poor as it is to the mighty and rich and through it you alone can hope to obtain effectual and sufficient relief, and what the rich man would have done you should have done also, you should have followed the same course.”
— from The Law and the Poor by Parry, Edward Abbott, Sir

And the two youths again clasped hands, tears filling the eyes of the living one, but no moisture in the clear orbs of him who was about to die.
— from A Son of the Soil by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

"Well," she said, "after what passed between you and Chupurosa Hatchinguish that day, I'm almost positive that tomorrow night you are to be extended the honour of becoming a member of the tribe.
— from The Heritage of the Hills by Arthur Preston Hankins

He writes to Mr Gisborne about the Epipsychidion , saying that he cannot look at it now, for— "the person whom it celebrates was a cloud instead of a Juno," and continues, "If you are curious, however, to hear what I am and have been, it will tell you something thereof.
— from Mysticism in English Literature by Caroline F. E. (Caroline Frances Eleanor) Spurgeon

Had that been years ago? Cleve handed this coat to Joan.
— from The Border Legion by Zane Grey

; he had not yet indulged in the vision of becoming master of the known world—a dream which, some twenty years afterward, consigned him to cruel and sudden destruction.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

Before Thanksgiving Day the Haynton Bay Improvement Company controlled a full mile of shore front, and there was more money in circulation in the village than could be remembered except by the oldest inhabitant, who was reminded of the good old times when in 1813 a privateer, built and manned in Haynton’s little bay, had carried a rich prize into New York and come home to spend the proceeds.
— from Country Luck by John Habberton

I am sorry you are come hither to accuse your wife; her education has been virtuous, her nature mild and easy.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by John Dryden