As a result just after Marilla had driven off to Carmody, Diana came over, dressed in her second-best dress and looking exactly as it is proper to look when asked out to tea.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

And she went to ask the dark-clouded Son of Cronos that he should be deathless and live eternally; and Zeus bowed his head to her prayer and fulfilled her desire.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

SYN: Stay, continue, wait, stop, tarry, halt, sojourn, rest, dwell, abide, last, endure, accrue, survive.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

,’ said Mr. Ben Allen, staring at the old gentleman, out of a pair of very dim and languid eyes, and working his right arm vehemently up and down, ‘you—you ought to be ashamed of yourself.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Of suppression of haemorrhoids, haemorrhagia, or bleeding at the nose, menstruous retentions, (although they deserve a larger explication, as being the sole cause of a proper kind of melancholy, in more ancient maids, nuns and widows, handled apart by Rodericus a Castro, and Mercatus, as I have elsewhere signified,) or any other evacuation stopped, I have already spoken.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Note 110 ( return ) [ Aliquantum agrorum Daphnensibus dedit, (Pompey,) quo lucus ibi spatiosior fieret; delectatus amoenitate loci et aquarum abundantiz, Eutropius, vi. 14.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

They were detained, while the Greeks were dismissed; and Lewis expected a more satisfactory account, that he might obey the laws of hospitality or prudence, according to the interest of both empires.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

[920] Vos, O, clarissima Mundi Lumina, labentem Cœlo qui ducitis annum, Liber, et alma Ceres.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

H2 anchor CHAPTER VII I HE solemnly finished the last copy of the American Magazine, while his wife sighed, laid away her darning, and looked enviously at the lingerie designs in a women's magazine.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Other loves (saith Picolomineus) are so called with some contraction, as the love of wine, gold, &c., but this of women is predominant in a higher strain, whose part affected is the liver, and this love deserves a longer explication, and shall be dilated apart in the next section.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[41] Italy likewise remained disunited and lacked even a common monarch.
— from Early European History by Hutton Webster

One day a lumbering, enclosed auto went by, an undertaker's car it was, and Pepsy was seized with sudden fright lest it be the orphan asylum wagon come to get her.
— from Pee-Wee Harris by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

By no means: he received and used the doctrines reddy formed; he did a little extend and contract his principles when wanted, and commit a few oversights of consequences.
— from A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Augustus De Morgan

Most of the artillery, however, was directed against Lady Emily; and she it was who saw, in a faint stream of moonlight, a female arm uplifted towards her, from under a table, with a threatening motion.
— from David Elginbrod by George MacDonald

Just then a page announced 'Messer Leonardo da Vinci,' and Bellincioni disappeared through one door as Leonardo entered at the other.
— from The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, the Forerunner by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

“General Order, No. 63: “Whereas, on the twenty-third day of April, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one, at a public meeting of the free colored population of the city of New Orleans, a military organization, known as the ‘Native Guards’ (colored), had its existence, which military organization was duly and legally enrolled as a part of the military of the State, its officers being commissioned by Thomas O. Moore, Governor, and Commander- in-Chief of the Militia, of the State of Louisiana, in the form following, that is to say:— “‘The State of Louisiana.
— from The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity by William Wells Brown

" The yellow High Ki clapped her pink hands with delight and looked eagerly at the prince.
— from The Enchanted Island of Yew Whereon Prince Marvel Encountered the High Ki of Twi and Other Surprising People by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

" "Lampadephoria"; C. R. Kenney, "Demosth. against Leptines," etc., App.
— from The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians by Xenophon