I also furbished up one of the great cutlasses that I had out of the ship, and made me a belt to hang it on also; so that I was now a most formidable fellow to look at when I went abroad, if you add to the former description of myself the particular of two pistols, and a broadsword hanging at my side in a belt, but without a scabbard.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

anded by an army; but he believes that he is wronged, and says that he do know that he is wronged therein.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

it is long ago that an accident befell him.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Adored with caution, as a brittle heaven, To reach Were hopeless as the rainbow's raiment To touch, Yet persevered toward, surer for the distance; How high Unto the saints' slow diligence The sky!
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

Saul made answer, That the people had reserved them for sacrifices; but that, as to the nation of the Amalekites, it was entirely destroyed, as he had received it in command to see done, and that no one man was left; but that he had saved alive the king alone, and brought him to him, concerning whom, he said, they would advise together what should be done with him.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The duke ordered his huntsmen to go to the help of knight and squire, and they raised Don Quixote, sorely shaken by his fall; and he, limping, advanced as best he could to kneel before the noble pair.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

By the advice, and in the company, of her spiritual guide, Paula abandoned Rome and her infant son; retired to the holy village of Bethlem; founded a hospital and four monasteries; and acquired, by her alms and penance, an eminent and conspicuous station in the Catholic church.
— 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

Prone upon the floor lay Mr. March, with his respectable legs in the air, and beside him, likewise prone, was Demi, trying to imitate the attitude with his own short, scarlet-stockinged legs, both grovellers so seriously absorbed that they were unconscious of spectators, till Mr. Bhaer laughed his sonorous laugh, and Jo cried out, with a scandalized face,— "Father, father, here's the Professor!"
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

You must get him to wear an astrological bangle; he will doubtless object as violently as one of his horses before an operation!"
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

It was, in fact, the “Duncan,” Lord Glenarvan’s yacht, now commanded by Robert, son of Captain Grant, who had been despatched to Tabor Island to find Ayrton, and bring him back to his native land after twelve years of expiation.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

"As false as a bulletin," has passed into a proverb.
— from The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape by Albert D. (Albert Deane) Richardson

The hackney-coachman, imagining that he had now another assailant, bethought him of an expedient to rid himself of both, and called out as loudly as he was able, “Help!
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

And Anthony bade her farewell.
— from What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

On July 31, 1560, two hours before dawn, Don Alvaro, accompanied by hardly 1,000 men, sallied out and tried to cut his way through, with the intention of seizing a vessel and escaping, but the attempt proved unsuccessful, and the same day the rest of the garrison surrendered.
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2 by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

They readily spoke of his life in Canaan as a boy; his being put into the pit and sold to the merchants; his life in Egypt with Potiphar; the prison experience and the interpretation of Pharaoh's dream; the change of fortune in becoming ruler of the land; the famine and the visits of his brothers; and, finally, his kindness to his father and brothers in giving them a home in Egypt.
— from The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children by Elizabeth Miller Lobingier

[264] and in the second edition of my treatise on the Principle of Sufficient Reason, § 21, [265] where the assumption adopted by Herschel finds special refutation; it is therefore useless to enter into it once more here.
— from On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature: Two Essays (revised edition) by Arthur Schopenhauer

"The bruite of this pretended marriage [Hamor continues] came soon to Powhatan's knowledge, a thing acceptable to him, as appeared by his sudden consent thereunto, who some ten daies after sent an old uncle of hirs, named Opachisco, to give her as his deputy in the church, and two of his sonnes to see the mariage solemnized which was accordingly done about the fifth of April [1614], and ever since we have had friendly commerce and trade, not only with Powhatan himself, but also with his subjects round about us; so as now I see no reason why the collonie should not thrive a pace."
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3 by Charles Dudley Warner

"An Indian stake and a bloody head will be the end of all of you."
— from Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan

The only other time that I was absent was when the autopsy was about completed before the funeral directors were in, and it was my decision to get Mr. Hill down and view this man for all the damage that was done; so I went up to the floor where they were at and brought him down and he inspected the incisions.
— from Warren Commission (02 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

“Thank you, sir,” answered Smellie delightedly; and planting himself comfortably astride a branch, he drew out a pencil and paper and proceeded to make a very careful sketch-chart of the river-mouth, Banana Creek, and the creek in which the slavers were lying; noting the bearings carefully with the aid of a pocket-compass.
— from The Congo Rovers: A Story of the Slave Squadron by Harry Collingwood