She was greatly excited at first, and kicked and screamed herself into a sort of stupor, but when supper was brought she ate heartily and seemed brighter, although she refused to let me touch her.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

An accomplished Greek gentleman played to me to-day some of the music preserved in the ceremonials of the Greek church; believed to be the most ancient known, and still heard in wild melodies of the mountaineers.
— from The World's Earliest Music Traced to Its Beginnings in Ancient Lands by Collected Evidence of Relics, Records, History, and Musical Instruments from Greece, Etruria, Egypt, China, Through Asyria and Babylonia, to the Primitive Home, the Land of Akkad and Sumer by Hermann Smith

Ptolemy Ceraunus, watching a favorable opportunity which occurred [Pg 226] while he was at Argos, came stealthily up behind the aged king, and stabbed him in the back with a dagger.
— from Pyrrhus Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

With the aid of a knife and some hectograph ink this alteration was soon made.
— from The Hero of Garside School by Panting, J. Harwood, (James Harwood)

"And, for my father thee, as kinsman, served, So thou a kin and servant hast in me;
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

She resisted, however; whereupon the ruffian who had hold of her, hearing the footsteps of persons approaching, and seeing that he could not carry her off, drew a knife and stabbed her in the throat, and escaped with his companion in the carriage.
— from Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century by Ignatius Donnelly

Firishtah was a great admirer of Asada Khan and supported him in all that he did.[282] Asada was a Turk, who, beginning life under the simple name of Khusru in the service of Ismail Adil Shah, distinguishe
— from A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India by Nunes, Fernão, active 16th century

"Well, the kittle didn't answer; and the old man set there and thought a while, and then he crossed the creek and took another drink and another nap, and crossed again, and there was the same old kittle, and he looked at it and give it a kick, and says he: 'I never saw as many blame kittles in all my life as I've seen to-day.
— from The Land of Long Ago by Eliza Calvert Hall

Melina himself thought he might come forth as chevalier; Madam Melina, to her no small sorrow, was obliged to satisfy herself with personating young wives, or even affectionate mothers; and as in the newer plays, a poet or pedant is rarely introduced, and still more rarely for the purpose of being laughed at, the well-known favorite of the count was now usually transformed into president or minister,—these being commonly set forth as knaves, and severely handled in the fifth act.
— from Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He hates the men who so mercilessly wield authority and power, and who order the Cossack to ride him down and knout and saber him into terrified submission.
— from Through Scandinavia to Moscow by William Seymour Edwards

I was at this time frequently at Knowsley, and spent hours in going over lists of names with [Pg 217] his lordship, and always came away with a promise that some appointments should be made forthwith, but still he hesitated.
— from Recollections of a Busy Life: Being the Reminiscences of a Liverpool Merchant 1840-1910 by Forwood, William Bower, Sir