When Omund heard of this, he went back to Norway with a great fleet, first sending Homod and Thole by a short and secret way to rouse the people of Tellemark against the rule of Rusla.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Don Quixote asked Pedro to tell him who the dead man was and who the shepherdess, to which Pedro replied that all he knew was that the dead man was a wealthy gentleman belonging to a village in those mountains, who had been a student at Salamanca for many years, at the end of which he returned to his village with the reputation of being very learned and deeply read.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Sleep is a rest or binding of the outward senses, and of the common sense, for the preservation of body and soul (as Scaliger [990] defines it); for when the common sense resteth, the outward senses rest also.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

For coarse stuffs, coarse cotton should be used, such as knitting cotton, Coton à tricoter D.M.C Nos. 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14, [A] which will be found a very good substitute for wool; or six-cord crochet cotton (Cordonnet 6 fils D.M.C) Nos. 3, 4, 5, 10 and 15, [A] which gives quite as full and brilliant a stitch, as silk-twist.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

M. Swann, the father, had been a stockbroker; and so 'young Swann' found himself immured for life in a caste where one's fortune, as in a list of taxpayers, varied between such and such limits of income.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Baron Thunder-ten-Tronckh passed near the screen and beholding this cause and effect chased Candide from the castle with great kicks on the backside; Cunegonde fainted away; she was boxed on the ears by the Baroness, as soon as she came to herself; and all was consternation in this most magnificent and most agreeable of all possible castles.
— from Candide by Voltaire

[B246; a4] suffer a seizure of this sort.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Indeed, had it not been that the person concerned was Chichikov, and not some youth of twenty summers—a hussar or a student or, in general, a man standing on the threshold of life—what thoughts would not have sprung to birth, and stirred and spoken, within him; for what a length of time would he not have stood entranced as he stared into the distance and forgot alike his journey, the business still to be done, the possibility of incurring loss through lingering—himself, his vocation, the world, and everything else that the world contains!
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

‘I only wanted that point to be all square and straight between us.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Having thus prepared all things as well as I was able, I set sail on the twenty-fourth day of September, 1701, at six in the morning; and, when I had gone about four leagues to the northward, the wind being at southeast, at six in the evening I descried a small island about half a league to the northwest I advanced forward, and cast anchor on the lee side
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

Harriet started to prepare the breakfast as soon as she had washed and dried her face and hands.
— from The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills; Or, The Missing Pilot of the White Mountains by Janet Aldridge

And there’s a miracle in the castle that I’ve never told ye: no matter how old and how worn and how stooped the lad and his lass may have grown, there he sees her only fresh and fair and she sees him only brave and straight and strong.”
— from Seven Miles to Arden by Ruth Sawyer

Farther on yet Genoa the Superb has a sea as blue, a sky as stainless, but she dominates in her white and emerald loveliness so that her setting is almost [339] effaced.
— from More Italian Yesterdays by Fraser, Hugh, Mrs.

Cook the Julienne in the stock until tender, add butter and seasoning and serve.
— from Dr. Allinson's cookery book Comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes by T. R. (Thomas Richard) Allinson

This is made from the same plaster [plaster of Paris] as the last, but it must be well purified (purgata), and kept moist in a large tub for at least a month; renew the water every day until it almost rots, and is completely slaked, and all fiery heat goes out of it, and it becomes as soft as silk.
— from Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering by Edward Johnston

I seen her run; I saddled her up and rode her thirty miles through sand that would of broke the heart of anything but a Steeldust, and she come through without battin' an eye.
— from The Garden of Eden by Max Brand

Whatever he had done, and she felt against all the teachings of her reason that it had not been evil, he had shown himself the equal of the best at Silverdale, and she laughed as she wondered which of the men there she could set in the balance against him.
— from Winston of the Prairie by Harold Bindloss

Shortly afterward they formed a desperate resolve: they would build a ship and sail home.
— from French Pathfinders in North America by William Henry Johnson