"Blessings on the honest old fellow who set aside this good liquor for you and me!
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The battle of Tours had once for all vindicated the independence of France, and set a bound to the Moslem conquests.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

The ship being now ready, we covered the bottom of the hold over, fore and aft, with dried brush for dunnage, and having levelled everything away, we were ready to take in our cargo.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Good augury should this festival be of the happiness of future years.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

At the beginning of Peter Russell's advertisement of properties, it will have been observed that he offered for sale "an excellent dwelling-house in the town of York," described as being in the occupation of Mr. John Denison.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

So in lone Poverty's dominion drear, Sits meek Content with light, unanxious heart; Welcomes the rapid moments, bids them part, Nor asks if they bring ought to hope or fear.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

I, younger brother of the heir, O fiend, the name of Lakshmaṇ bear.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

As, however, suspicion had been excited against him, owing to a plan he had formed of making a voyage to the South Sea at his own expense, for which he required a considerable body of troops, his own father-in-law deposed him and afterwards sentenced him to decapitation.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

A Liberal of the forties and fifties, a freethinker and atheist, he may have been led on by boredom or the hope of frivolous diversion.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He was accompanied by his nephews Lysimachus and Primus, the former of whom was suspected by Diocletian of having a leaning towards Christianity, as his mother had been of the household of faith, and he was a youth of a singularly meditative and temperate life.
— from Virgin Saints and Martyrs by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

And those who have been of the household of faith, and been duly instructed, have considered themselves obliged to discharge these duties; nor have they neglected them.
— from Sermons on Various Important Subjects Written Partly on Sundry of the More Difficult Passages in the Sacred Volume by Andrew Lee

But a skate can also swim, and in that way it comes up off the bottom, and often bites on the hooks of fishermen who do not at all want to catch such an unpleasant fish.
— from Six Little Bunkers at Cousin Tom's by Laura Lee Hope

He reproached them for their negligence in allowing the fortress to be bombarded by troops which were scarcely more than the garrison of the place, and quietly suffering them to place their batteries on the hill opposite, from whence they fired incessantly into the town.
— from Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 by Mór Jókai

He then thought it high time to put his temporal affairs into the best order that his own folly would admit; for, in consequence of his lawsuits, they were so much in the hands and power of his friend, the lawyer, that notwithstanding the plausibility and professions of the latter, he trembled when he came to reflect how much they were involved.
— from The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft

Miss Robinson shares this opinion, but M. de Montaiglon thinks that Longarine would rather be Aimée Motier de la Fayette’s daughter Frances, married to Frederic d’Almenesches, of one of the branches of the house of Foix.
— from The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. 5 (of 5) by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

Waal, pa'son 'lowed, calm an' quiet, ez I'd be skinnin' a deer or suthin', ez he'd ruther be obligated ter his own f-folks fur that holp, but ez that couldn't be he'd git bail from others.
— from The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree

It is a square ray of light that the sun has forgotten since the beginning of the history of France.
— from The Double Life by Gaston Leroux

Many suppose that a branch of the Hudson once flowed across the island at Manhattanville to Hell Gate; but we believe that originally the upper portion of Manhattan was a distinct island, and have no doubt the waters of the Hudson washed freely between the two, and in time the amount of soil gradually deposited on either bank limited and eventually closed the gap, thus giving us our present formation.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

[282] A menacing theological tempest was then gathering and was about to break over the heads of Friar Richard's daughters in the spirit.
— from The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 by Anatole France