'After robbing her of all that made it dear, can you fear to deprive her of a life so miserable?
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Herod was near enough to see this sight, and his bowels of compassion were moved at it, and he stretched out his right hand to the old man, and besought him to spare his children; yet did not he relent at all upon what he said, but over and above reproached Herod on the lowness of his descent, and slew his wife as well as his children; and when he had thrown their dead bodies down the precipice, he at last threw himself down after them.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

940 392 But it was ungrateful in Polynices thus to rail against exile as discrediting his good birth and robbing him of friends, for it was on account of his good birth that he was deemed worthy of a royal bride though an exile, and he came to fight supported by a band of friends and allies, a great force, as he himself admits a little later, "Many of the princes of the Danai And from Mycenæ are with me, bestowing A sad but necessary kindness on me."
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

The Gentleman I am married to made Love to me in Rapture, but it was the Rapture of a Christian and a Man of Honour, not a Romantick Hero or a Whining Coxcomb: This put our Life upon a right Basis.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

She was very equal therefore to address Mr. Bingley on the subject of the ball, and abruptly reminded him of his promise; adding, that it would be the most shameful thing in the world if he did not keep it.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

But when at a later time the discovery of the art of embalming gave a new lease of life to the souls of the dead by preserving their bodies for an indefinite time from corruption, the deities were permitted to share the benefit of an invention which held out to gods as well as to men a reasonable hope of immortality.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Agamemnon revenged himself on Achilles by depriving him of his beautiful captive, the fair Brisëis, who had become so attached to her kind and noble captor that she wept bitterly on being removed from his charge.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

To this point he has been discreet in dreading to provoke me; you must represent the peril of quitting that policy, and remind him of my passionate temper, verging, when kindled, on frenzy.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

I heard more men coming, my cook was lying quiet on the other side of the counter, stunned or scared speechless, and I had to make another dash for it, like a rabbit hunted out of a wood-pile.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The poets made Memnon the son of Aurora, and bring him to the Trojan war in beautiful armor, and flushed with popular praise; where, thirsting after further glory, and rashly hurrying on to the greatest enterprises, he engages the bravest warrior of all the Greeks, Achilles, and falls by his hand in single combat.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

On this must appear the signatures of those who sign for the order, and on it he must record the time when he receives it; the responses; the time when they are received; his own name; the date; and the train number; for which places are provided in the blanks.
— from The Train Wire: A Discussion of the Science of Train Dispatching (Second Edition) by John Alexander Anderson

"I don't think I killed you out of any real hatred of you; it was only because I was afraid for myself.
— from Tinman by Tom Gallon

There was an amorous, apologetic note in his voice that amused her, and reminded her of the honeymoon.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

Then there were wolves in the wold; or country people might find and release her, or even Claudia and the women might return and see how she had fared.
— from Uther and Igraine by Warwick Deeping

Voltaire accepted the invitation, and the journals announced that the celebrated French writer had again received his orders, titles, and pension, and gone to Potsdam with the king.
— from Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Wright's corps, commanded by Ricketts during the absence of Sheridan, while Wright himself commanded the army, was held in reserve on the high ground known as Red Hill overlooking Meadow Brook from the eastward, the divisions encamped for convenience in a sort of irregular echelon, with Ricketts's, under Keifer, in front, Upton's, commanded by Wheaton, on the right and rear in close support, and Getty's on the left and rear of both, and thus nearer to the valley road than either.
— from History of the Nineteenth Army Corps by Richard B. (Richard Biddle) Irwin

By alternately shifting her ground and refusing to give any reasons, she always reduced her opponent to a moral pulp.
— from A Woman's Burden: A Novel by Fergus Hume

The Indian precedent might be followed with advantage, and real heads of districts established, who would have a control, direct or indirect, over all administrative work.
— from The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction by John Buchan

If a neighbor wanted a bushel or two of grain, he might be trusted to measure it himself and render his own account.
— from The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York Continental Regiment from May 1 to October 3, 1779, in General Sullivan's Campaign Against the Western Indians With an Introduction, Copious Historical Notes, and Maps of the Battle-field of Newtown and Groveland Ambuscade by John Leonard Hardenbergh

The psalmist spreads the "covenant" before God, as reminding Him of His obligations under it.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Vol. 2 Psalms XXXIX.-LXXXIX. by Alexander Maclaren