In this enterprise, however, he had more real difficulties than generally fell to the lot of a knight-errant of yore, who seldom had anything but giants, enchanters, fiery dragons, and such-like easily-conquered adversaries to contend with, and had to make his way merely through gates of iron and brass and walls of adamant to the castle keep, where the lady of his heart was confined; all which he achieved as easily as a man would carve his way to the centre of a Christmas pie, and then the lady gave him her hand as a matter of course.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

In her mortification Varvara Petrovna threw herself heart and soul into the “new ideas,” and began giving evening receptions.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The first astonishment became greater every day.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

The grounds were extensive, and a high and solid brick wall, topped with a bed of mortar and broken glass, encompassed the whole.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

In respect of another rain-charm it is said plainly, ‘He puts on a black garment edged with black, for such is the nature of rain.’
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

[A; b5c] give each.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The bladder had been perforated by a bullet going entirely through him.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

DE GUICHE: You will all be good enough To let yourselves to be killed.
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

" [Pg 309] FOOTNOTES: 1 Histories of warfare, of politics (though there are no good recent ones, Edward Jenks' little book being half a century out of date), of political theory (especially the excellent though dissimilar volumes by G. H. Sabine and by G. E. C. Catlin), of particular countries, of diplomacy, of religion, and even of literature all cast a certain amount of light on the subject.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

They also celebrate a regular marriage ceremony, at which a bracelet is put on the bride’s right arm, and bride and bridegroom garland each other; while next morning a kānam or bride-price has to be paid to the bride’s karnavan (senior male in a family).
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

He was presently discovered at a window, and by great exertion rescued at the very moment which promised to be his last.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 6 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

This pleased the Indian wonderfully; turning it over and over, he surveyed it in every light, admired the yellow chevrons, laughed and betrayed great eagerness to get possession of the gaudy garment.
— from Narrative of the March of Co. A, Engineers from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to Fort Bridger, Utah, and Return, May 6 to October 3, 1858 by William P. Seville

In the East and the North and the West, the boys in blue flocked to the standard, and bayonets gleamed everywhere.
— from How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon A True Romance of Patriotic Heroism Christian Devotion and Final Martyrdom by Oliver W. (Oliver Woodson) Nixon

Life in Vienna has always been gay enough.
— from The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 by Rupert Hughes

Before he died Peter the Great set on foot the project of sending an expedition to seek the northern passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic by going east.
— from The Colonization of North America, 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

But if you'd like to have a keg of it for your own drinking, I'll send it to you and be glad enough to do so for old acquaintance' sake."
— from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main by Howard Pyle

“You must stay here and nurse the skipper, Mr. Mackenzie,” said Carson, turning to the mate; “and be good enough not to make that snuffling noise; it's worrying to an invalid.”
— from The Lady of the Barge and Others, Entire Collection by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

The character of Rifoel, adventurous, brave, generous, exercised a charm on all who came in contact with him, as was abundantly proved during his trials before three successive criminal courts.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The negotiations were extremely difficult, as nobody spoke anything but Gaelic, except an old woman, and she was so cross and apparently so suspicious of the whole party that we got on better by signs and a few extra shillings.
— from Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington

No, you shall serve me, because you are both good enough and bad enough for the purpose.
— from The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts by August Wilhelm Iffland