While he slept a band of robbers stole his favorite horse, Ruksh.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Here did she fall a tear; here in this place I'll set a bank of rue, sour herb of grace.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“That’s a tempting bit o’ ribbon!” said he.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

The Officer gave him to understand he was Surgeon, and if he desired it, he would dress him; but he swore it should not be done, and that if any Thing was applied to him, he would tear it off.—Nevertheless the Surgeon had good Nature enough to dress him, tho’ with much trouble: At Night he was in a kind of Delirium , and raved on the Bravery of Roberts , saying, he should shortly be released, as soon as they should meet him, which procured him a lashing down upon the Forecastle, which he resisting with all his Force, caused him to be used with the more Violence, so that he was tied down with so much Severity, that his Flesh being sore and tender with the blowing up, he died next Day of a Mortification.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Clearly some ill-wisher had set a trap baited with this dainty for his dream-soul, intending to do him grievous bodily, or rather spiritual, harm; and for the next few nights great pains were taken to keep his soul from straying abroad in his sleep.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

We cannot wonder that the ballads of Rome should have altogether disappeared, when we remember how very narrowly, in spite of the invention of printing, those of our own country and those of Spain escaped the same fate.
— from Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

As usual, when the phrases, born of real struggles, had lost their meaning, they were handed up to the theologians to be made into perpetual dogmas.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Henry Raspe persecutes heretics, ii. 343. Henry, Bp. of Ratisbon, suppresses heresy, iii. 89 .
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea

She was not the being of real sensibility he had fancied—she was not capable of real love.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Helen by Maria Edgeworth

The opportune blush of Rosamond sealed her own destiny, and that of Cecil Dormer.
— from Love After Marriage; and Other Stories of the Heart by Caroline Lee Hentz

Laying his rifle on the bulge of rising stone, he killed the animal and slung it from his belt.
— from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey

The feeling that the church was the only place for safety filled the breasts of most of the frightened souls in the neighborhood of Seventh and Red Cross streets on the evening of the dreadful 10th of November, after the band of Red Shirts had terrorized the [100] people in their blusterous hunt for the negro minister.
— from Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. by Jack Thorne

I'm dead-beat—" Here she abruptly broke off, remembering she had a formal introduction to make "My father, my sister—Madame Grandjean.
— from A Love Episode by Émile Zola