So after, for great trust, Arthur betook the scabbard to Morgan le Fay his sister, and she loved another knight better than her husband King Uriens or King Arthur, and she would have had Arthur her brother slain, and therefore she let make another scabbard like it by enchantment, and gave the scabbard Excalibur to her love; and the knight's name was called Accolon, that after had near slain King Arthur.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

With his big cropped head, short neck, his red face, his big nose, his shaggy black eyebrows and grey whiskers, his stout puffy figure and his hoarse military bass, this Samoylenko made on every newcomer the unpleasant impression of a gruff bully; but two or three days after making his acquaintance, one began to think his face extraordinarily good-natured, kind, and even handsome.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Persæus, another disciple of Zeno, says that they who have made discoveries advantageous to the life of man should be esteemed as Gods; and the very things, he says, which are healthful and beneficial have derived their names from those of the Gods; so that he thinks it not sufficient to call them the discoveries of Gods, but he urges that they 224 themselves should be deemed divine.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Then you must prove it by evincing a good appetite; will you fill the teapot while I knit off this needle?” Having completed her task, she rose to draw down the blind, which she had hitherto kept up, by way, I suppose, of making the most of daylight, though dusk was now fast deepening into total obscurity.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Both are therefore probably personifications “of the winter cloud which broods over and keeps from mortals the gold of the sun’s light and heat, till in the spring the bright orb overcomes the powers of darkness and tempests, and scatters his gold over the face of the earth.” Swanhild, Sigurd’s daughter, is another personification of the sun, as is seen in her blue eyes and golden hair; and her death under the hoofs of black steeds [ 365 ] represents the blotting out of the sun by clouds of storm or of darkness.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

For, if you fear any thing of the kind, dismiss your fears; for we are justified in running the risk to save you—and, if need be, even a greater risk than this.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

At Middletown and other places on the way he was received by escorts, and greeted with the ringing of bells, and sometimes the firing of cannon.
— from Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Benson John Lossing

She, indeed, was for braving everybody and getting married at once, divorce or no divorce.
— from The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

[353] M. Blanc also considers that there is but a slight transition between embroidery and guipure, which he says was the first lace.
— from Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

To the critical reader, however, let me say: Do not worry about this, for I am far more concerned to get my thought into the heads and hearts of my readers than I am to be esteemed a great writer.
— from Quit Your Worrying! by George Wharton James

The mare arched her glossy neck, put back both ears, and gave other indications that she would have fully appreciated the remarks of her master if she had only understood them.
— from Charlie to the Rescue by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

He concluded by expressing a general disapprobation of the various parts of the bill.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

You have read that a man who, with patience, hears himself called heretic, can never be esteemed a good Christian.
— from Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) by Lewis Melville

"If you will have the baggage, which, I imagine, is in the bedrooms, examined, and give me your private ear for a moment, I'll endeavour to explain as much as I know."
— from The Cab of the Sleeping Horse by John Reed Scott

After Nelson’s remains had been embalmed at Gibraltar they were conveyed in the Victory to Portsmouth, which was reached on the 2nd December 1805.
— from The Boys' Nelson by Harold Wheeler