Now eagles, and owls, and falcons, peck and kill other birds, in spite of Aeschylus's line, "Bird-eating bird polluted e'er must be."
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

As few people are known in Tom-all-Alone's by any Christian sign, there is much reference to Mr. Snagsby whether he means Carrots, or the Colonel, or Gallows, or Young Chisel, or Terrier Tip, or Lanky, or the Brick.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

[238] While Aedh was enjoying a game of hurley with his boy companions near the sídh of Liamhain Softsmock, two of the sídh -women, who loved the young prince, very suddenly appeared, and as suddenly took him away with them into a fairy palace and kept him there three years.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Instead of going over my river in my mind as was my duty, I threw business aside for pleasure, and killed Brown.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Apart from the infinite variety of details resulting from the local circumstances under which these ceremonies had been instituted, which were everywhere celebrated at fixed periods, a kind of general principle regulated and directed their arrangement.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

The right of the City to the rents and tolls of the portion of the fair held beyond the precincts of the priory was finally decided in 1445, when the Court of Aldermen appointed four persons as keepers of the fair, and of the Court of Pie-powder, a tribunal instituted for the summary settlement of all disputes arising in the fair, and deriving its name, it is supposed, from pieds poudres , because the litigants had their causes tried with the dust of the fair on their feet.
— from The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs by Thomas Frost

Then rose a world of anxious faces pressed About King Arthur, who, though wound-distressed, Bespake that multitude: "Whiles breath and power Remain, judge we these brethren: This harsh hour Hath yielded Damas all this rich estate;— So it is his—allotted his of Fate Thro' might of arms; so let it be to him.
— from Accolon of Gaul, with Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein

And, hark in your ear, as you underrate Backbiter, you are a fool, Peppercorn, and know no more of the points of a good horse than you do of the ten commandments.
— from Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy

He cannot, however, refuse because he is a fellow professional, and knows that his discourtesy may be set to the debit of the minister.
— from His Majesty Baby and Some Common People by Ian Maclaren

Hegel always said: "The rational is the real," and, for him, as for Plato, absolute knowledge resolved itself into perfect logic.
— from Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier

"Did any of your people come from the South of Ireland, Toby?" demanded the said George; "because you've got the gift of gab down to a fine point, and know how to blarney a fellow first-class."
— from Storm-Bound; or, A Vacation Among the Snow Drifts by Douglas, Alan, Captain

Vesper at first patiently and kindly endured the pressure of the curly head laid on his arm.
— from Rose à Charlitte by Marshall Saunders