Now there had died and been buried in the camp or rather in the host, of the Christians, the day they were taken by Saladin, a Provençal gentleman of little account, by name Messer Torello de Dignes, by reason whereof, Messer Torello d'Istria being renowned throughout the army for his magnificence, whosoever heard say, 'Messer Torello is dead,' believed it of Messer Torello d'Istria, not of him of Dignes.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

In a few minutes she returned, bland and benignant as before; but I thought she had forgotten to give the “poor ittie doggie” anything to eat, judging by the avidity with which he swallowed down chance pieces of cake.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The Cock flying up, perched himself on the branches of a tree, while the Dog found a bed beneath in the hollow trunk.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

But they are mostly lost, for want of a husband or friend who has the other knowledge which can enable him to estimate them properly and bring them before the world: and even when they are brought before it, they generally appear as his ideas, not their real author's.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

p. 233 CANZONET I have no store Of gryphon-guarded gold; Now, as before, Bare is the shepherd’s fold.
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

This morning they are upon a Bill, brought in to-day by Sir Richard Temple, for obliging the King to call Parliaments every three years; or, if he fail, for others to be obliged to do it, and to keep him from a power of dissolving any Parliament in less than forty days after their first day of sitting, which is such a Bill as do speak very high proceedings, to the lessening of the King; and this they will carry, and whatever else they desire, before they will give any money; and the King must have money, whatever it cost him.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

They have sent out some people and it would be a bad business if they caught you with the pig; at the very least, you would be shut up in the dark hole."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

It is then our affections which we lay open unto Thee, confessing our own miseries, and Thy mercies upon us, that Thou mayest free us wholly, since Thou hast begun, that we may cease to be wretched in ourselves, and be blessed in Thee; seeing Thou hast called us, to become poor in spirit, and meek, and mourners, and hungering and athirst after righteousness, and merciful, and pure in heart, and peace-makers.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

This singular and brilliant bird inhabits the same region as the Superb Bird of Paradise, and nothing whatever is known about it but what we can derive from an examination of the skins preserved by the natives of New Guinea.
— from The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace

Patients were again being brought into the dressing-room, the two other baths were already occupied.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete by Émile Zola

These may all be broiled in the same way as plain beef steak.
— from The English Housekeeper: Or, Manual of Domestic Management Containing advice on the conduct of household affairs and practical instructions concerning the store-room, the pantry, the larder, the kitchen, the cellar, the dairy; the whole being intended for the use of young ladies who undertake the superintendence of their own housekeeping by Anne Cobbett

A bill brought into the house of commons, permitting the Bible and church service to be translated into the Welsh or British tongue and used in the church of Wales.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

And so, if a woman live in virtue and obedience, there is hope of her again being born into the world as a man , and becoming one of the illuminati and possessors of the secret.
— from The Women of the Arabs by Henry Harris Jessup

There was a bill brought into the legislature for the establishment of some regulations in the consular offices; but it is postponed to the next session.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 3 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

At the time he had merely looked upon these as a base attempt at insult, and had tortured himself almost beyond bearing, in the endeavour to refrain from punishing that evilmouthed creature, who dared to bandy words with his madonna.
— from I Will Repay by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

They had received them full in the face, like a base ball, if they happened to be up and stirring; they had received them in quarter-sheets, tucked in at separate windows; they had found them in the chimney, pinned against the door, shot through attic-windows, delivered in long slips through convenient keyholes, stuffed into ventilators, and occupying the same can with the morning's milk.
— from Tales of the Argonauts by Bret Harte

Uncle Deck was just pushing a bottle back into the oats in the bin.
— from Where Your Treasure Is: Being the Personal Narrative of Ross Sidney, Diver by Holman Day