If this new purpose of conquest shall be abandoned, Richard may yet become King of Jerusalem by compact.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

I came here to bathe and refresh myself; your messenger cursed me, and I killed him.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

He left off dragging me by my beard and released me: ‘You are an officer,’ he said, ‘and I am an officer, if you can find a decent man to be your second send me your challenge.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ho, Si Jambu Rakai, I know your origin; Sugar-cane knots forty-four were your bones, Of clay was formed your body; Rootlets of the areca-palm were your arteries, Liquid sugar made your blood, A rotten mat your skin, And a mid-rib of the thatch-palm your tail, Prickles of the pandanus made your dorsal ridge, And pointed bĕrĕmbang suckers your teeth.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

For, although they can inflict instantaneous death by a retrograde movement, yet unless they can at once disengage their stinging extremity from the struggling body of their victim, their own frail bodies are liable to be shattered.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Judging from what you say of her, she seems to be a rather mysterious young person.”
— from Marjorie Dean, High School Senior by Josephine Chase

"Surely, Sir," he wrote to his royal master, "the King of Denmark, though in appearance he should be judged to be a rash man, yet he is right wise, sober, and discreet, minding the establishing of good peace betwixt Christian Princes, wherein he right substantially declared his mind to me at good length."
— from Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, 1522-1590 by Julia Cartwright

She was like some royal captive surrounded by a rabble mob, yet as undisturbed in soul as though her puny, hooting tormentors had no existence.
— from It Happened in Egypt by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

PLATE 1 Dorsal views of skulls of young Smilisca baudini : (A) recently metamorphosed young (KU 60026), snout-vent length 12.6 mm.
— from Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William Edward Duellman

When a march is made to force a pass guarded by the enemy, it is desirable to make a feint upon one point, while, by a rapid movement, you bring your real attack to bear upon another.
— from The Officer's Manual: Napoleon's Maxims of War by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

“'H—'s full of such takes back,' says I; and I puts back to town and fetches the rifle and the old mule, puts my traps into the sack, gets credit for a [Pg 10] couple of pounds of powder at Owin's store, and hyar I ar on Bijou, with half a pack of beaver, and running meat yet, old hos: so put a log on, and let's have a smoke.
— from Life in the Far West by George Frederick Augustus Ruxton

“When you come back a reech mans, you can pays me back; but, note till den!
— from She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

You fancy, too, that because you and your family have had misfortunes, and because you [pg 082] have not been very successful in trying to become a rich man, you must stand humbly aside for cleverer men, and ask no favors.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various