I must believe my master; else, I promise you, I should be arguing still upon that doubt; But let it rest.
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

Such a doctrine not only completely tranquilizes our spirit, but also shows us where our highest happiness or blessedness is, namely, solely in the knowledge of God, whereby we are led to act only as love and piety shall bid us.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Then his eye fell upon the arm-ring which he had given to Ingeborg and which Helgé had placed upon [ 318 ] the arm of Balder, and striding up to the wooden image he said: “Pardon, great Balder, not for thee was the ring wrested from Völund’s tomb!”
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

The Coffee-Plant also figures in the arms of Yockney: "Azure, a chevron or, between a ship under sail in chief proper, and a sprig of the coffee-plant slipped in base of the second."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

She took Miss Lavendar on a shopping expedition to town and persuaded her to buy a new organdy dress; then came the excitement of cutting and making it together, while the happy Charlotta the Fourth basted and swept up clippings.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Even in the least unstable of the Grecian commonwealths, freedom might be for the time destroyed by a single unfairly obtained popular vote; and though the Athenian voter was not sufficiently dependent to be habitually coerced, he might have been bribed or intimidated by the lawless outrages of some knot of individuals, such as were not uncommon even at Athens among the youth of rank and fortune.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

She blushed at my declaration and in a favourable manner disapproved of the liberty I had taken, putting me in mind of our being strangers to each other, and desiring I would not be the means of interrupting our acquaintance, by any such unseasonable strokes of gallantry for the future.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

And in fifty places were more of the same sort bowing and straightening up, bowing again and getting down to kiss the earth, muttering prayers the while, and keeping up their gymnastics till they ought to have been tired, if they were not.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

This event will be brought to pass by that God who hath sent this bird hither to be a sign unto thee.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

In the moment of victory, Tuppence betrayed a somewhat unsportsmanlike triumph.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

Phelps, here, is fond of saying that he could buy and sell us all out any time he's a mind to; but he knew Harve wouldn't have given a tinker's damn for his bank and all his cattlefarms put together; and a lack of appreciation, that way, goes hard with Phelps.
— from Youth and the Bright Medusa by Willa Cather

The pipings of out-door insects came sharpened through twilight, and all the camp-fires were deepening their hue, before a solemn uprising of Frenchmen and Indians proclaimed the council over.
— from The Story of Tonty by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

Only the scantiest mention is to be found of naval preparation there, because actually little was being done; and although the American force was momentarily superior, it was so simply because the British, being in Canada wholly on the defensive, and therefore obliged to conform to American initiative, contemplated no use of this lake, the mastery of which, nevertheless, was soon afterward thrown into their hands by a singularly unfortunate occurrence.
— from Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

These principles applied to the captive balloon gave to its observation basket a stability unknown by the pioneer aeronauts under their spherical bags.
— from America's Munitions 1917-1918 by Benedict Crowell

He went over to England from Brussels , and stirred up the young English king to attack Philip (1334).
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

The general contour of each oak presents a characteristic branching and sturdiness uncommon in other trees.
— from Studies of Trees by Jacob Joshua Levison

He finished his breakfast and stood up.
— from By Blow and Kiss: The Love Story of a Man with a Bad Name. (Published serially under the title Unstable as Water). by Boyd Cable

There is also a kind worth one Bezant of gold, and others of three Bezants, and so up to ten.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Clementina had enticed me to her cottage with the promise of country beans cooked in country fashion, to be followed by a story under the chestnut woods.
— from Tuscan folk-lore and sketches, together with some other papers by Isabella Mary Anderton