For example, little dapper Zaccheus, whose body and relics the monks of St. Garlick, near Orleans, boast of having, and nickname him St. Sylvanus; he only wished to see our blessed Saviour near Jerusalem.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

I answered: "These gentlemen can do what they please, but they have twelve hours before the bank will open on the morrow, and if the ledger is written up" (as I believed it was or could be by midnight), "they can (by counting the coin, bullion on hand, and notes or stocks of immediate realization) approximate near enough for them to indorse for the remainder."
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The Friar, who knew nothing of the youth, but what he had learnt occasionally from the Princess, ignorant what was become of him, and not sufficiently reflecting on the impetuosity of Manfred’s temper, conceived that it might not be amiss to sow the seeds of jealousy in his mind: they might be turned to some use hereafter, either by prejudicing the Prince against Isabella, if he persisted in that union or by diverting his attention to a wrong scent, and employing his thoughts on a visionary intrigue, prevent his engaging in any new pursuit.
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

It was born of honour and nursed by innocence.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Ah! this,” cried the voice, the tone of which was at once polished and jeering, “this is nothing but a butchery of horses and not a combat between men.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

“My grandsire,” said Hubert, “drew a good bow at the battle of Hastings, and never shot at such a mark in his life—and neither will I. If this yeoman can cleave that rod, I give him the bucklers—or rather, I yield to the devil that is in his jerkin, and not to any human skill; a man can but do his best, and I will not shoot where I am sure to miss.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

In the morning before office hours, at noon when business was plenty, and time scarce, at night under the face of the fogged city moon, by all lights and at all hours of solitude or concourse, the lawyer was to be found on his chosen post.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

This morning it rained so hard (though it was fair yesterday, and we thereupon in hopes of having some fair weather, which we have wanted these three months) that it wakened Creed, who lay with me last night, and me, and so we up and fell to discourse of the business of his accounts now under dispute, in which I have taken much trouble upon myself and raised a distance between Sir G. Carteret and myself, which troubles me, but I hope we have this morning light on an expedient that will right all, that will answer their queries, and yet save Creed the L500
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Never had he been so fond of this body of his as now when his tenure of it was so precarious.
— from White Fang by Jack London

Upon this the Campanian observed to the Roman, "This will be only a trial of skill between our horses and not between horsemen, unless we ride them down from the plain into this hollow way.
— from The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 by Livy

Mr. Grewgious often smoothed his head while it was in progress, and begged to be told a second time those parts which bore on Helena and Neville.
— from The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens

Willard, however, with the self-reliance that always characterizes a boy of his age, never for a moment doubted that he was adequate to the task, and as he had been placed in charge of a very fine yoke of oxen, took much pride in driving them in the same manner as he would have driven a span of horses, seated on the top of his load upon the wagon instead of being on foot and close by their heads, as prudence would [79] have taught an older driver to do.
— from Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens

He warned them to beware of hyænas, at night more especially, as the quarter in which they had camped had no stockade round it as yet.
— from The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi by David Livingstone

When the Empress of Ireland went down with a hundred and thirty Salvation Army officers on board, one hundred and nine officers were drowned, and not one body that was picked up had on a life-belt.
— from The War Romance of the Salvation Army by Grace Livingston Hill

This was a constant boast of his, and not altogether a vain one.
— from Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever

If it had not been for this protective wall, we should infallibly have been blown over into the sea, as, frantically clutching our hats in the roaring wind, and leaving our umbrellas at the top, weighted down by stones, we prepared to descend the exceedingly steep and broken one hundred and ninety-four steps.
— from A Lady's Tour in Corsica, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Gertrude Forde

Nom. flocks, r. lagoons 30 White; head, upper-neck bare black; back of head and neck barred rose-pink; black bill arched; f., smaller. Insects.
— from An Australian Bird Book: A Pocket Book for Field Use by John Albert Leach

About eight o’clock the gale came on with tremendous fury; and as Charlie lay in his warm bed 77 that night, and listened to the roar of the surf and the sough of the tempest, he drew the blankets over him, and nestling in their warm folds, lifted up his heart in gratitude to the Being his mother had taught him to call upon in the hour of peril, and not forget in that of deliverance.
— from Charlie Bell, The Waif of Elm Island by Elijah Kellogg

"I do not know what you mean by old habits and new habits," cry I, angrily; "if you think he did not want me to go with him, you are very much mistaken; he would have much rather that I had."
— from Nancy: A Novel by Rhoda Broughton