They had taken off his breastplate and backpiece, but they neither knew nor saw how to open his gorget or remove his make-shift helmet, for he had fastened it with green ribbons, which, as there was no untying the knots, required to be cut.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The virtuous Ráma, wonder-stirred, The faithful speech of Bharat heard, And thus the hero's feelings found Due utterance, as he gazed around: “Still to my father's word I hold, Whate'er he bought, or pledged, or sold: Ne'er shall his living promise be Annulled by Bharat or by me.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

And after a time they build their nests (to use a wise man’s words 103 ) in that corner of life, and speedily set about breeding, and beget Boastfulness, and Vanity, and Wantonness, no base-born children, but their very own.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

the bright hides, See, the two with stars on their foreheads—see, the round bodies and broad backs, How straight and square they stand on their legs—what fine sagacious eyes!
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

“Why,” said he, “they accuse me of burning a barn; but I never did it.”
— from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

As I said before, man’s education begins at birth; before he can speak or understand he is learning.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Monsieur d’Artagnan,” he said, “you are to take this dispatch to the Bastile and bring back here the person it concerns.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

And like enough the Duke hath taken notice Both of his blood and body: But his falsehood!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The usual nalagu ceremony is next performed, bride and bridegroom being anointed with oil, and smeared with Phaseolus Mungo paste.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

She made arrangements for his board, got him furniture, table and two chairs, sent home for an old cherry-tree bedstead, and bought besides a small cast-iron stove with the supply of wood that was to warm the poor child.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

So I, too, felt; nor was I at all sure that, once in, we should ever come out again; but there we were, and I summoned the castle—the knocker being a cannon-ball hanging on a chain, whereat a woman opened, we stepped into the bailey-court, and a somewhat loosely-dressed man, with a tasselled smoking-cap on his head hurried towards us, followed by a brown bear.
— from The Last Miracle by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

Have I not castigated barbers, and brought barbercraft to degradation, so that no youth is taught to exercise it?
— from The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 4 by George Meredith

But none of them, after they have left such associations behind and become by comparison low-country rivers on their progress to the sea, break out again like the Wye for such a long period of their later course in scenes that vie with those of its youth and are among the recognised gems of British scenery.
— from The Rivers and Streams of England by A. G. (Arthur Granville) Bradley

He had often been asked by Booth to take a drink at the nearest bar.
— from The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth by George Alfred Townsend

The men cheered, and worked with all their might, bale after bale being tossed into the wide opening and filling it up so that the great draught of heat was checked and the place rendered more bearable as the flame and smoke ceased to rush up as if through some great flue.
— from Stan Lynn: A Boy's Adventures in China by George Manville Fenn

Therefore I pray Thee, by Thy power and love grant me grace, that I may worthily approach Thy altar, and not become guilty of Thy body and blood by unworthy eating and drinking, so that I may not receive death in place of life.
— from Morning and Evening Prayers for All Days of the Week Together With Confessional, Communion, and Other Prayers and Hymns for Mornings and Evenings, and Other Occasions by Johann Habermann

v 1 [B; a] be, become crisp.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Secondly , in charging Onesimus with this epistle to Philemon, the Apostle recommends him as 23 “not now a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved,” and he enjoins upon his correspondent the hospitality due to a freeman, saying expressly, “If thou count me, therefore, a partner, receive him as myself ”: ay, Sir, not as slave, not even as servant, but as brother beloved, even as the Apostle himself.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 05 (of 20) by Charles Sumner