For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor; But glory is the sodger's prize, The sodgerpppp's wealth is honor: The brave poor sodger ne'er despise, Nor count him as a stranger; Remember he's his country's stay, In day and hour of danger.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Care was taken to give them nurses to look after them, but the persons fled were never found, till after the plague was abated they returned; but as nothing could be proved, so nothing could be done to them.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

The driver, Cesaire Horlaville, a little man with a big paunch, supple nevertheless, through his constant habit of climbing over the wheels to the top of the wagon, his face all aglow from exposure to the brisk air of the plains, to rain and storms, and also from the use of brandy, his eyes twitching from the effect of constant contact with wind and hail, appeared in the doorway of the hotel, wiping his mouth on the back of his hand.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Heedless, they who boast Both parents still, nor feel what he has lost, Shall cry, 'Begone!
— from The Iliad by Homer

Page 265 The fiftieth anniversary of Rizal’s birth was observed throughout the Archipelago with exercises in every community by public schools now organized along the lines he wished, to make self-dependent, capable men and women, strong in body as in mind, knowing and claiming their own rights, and recognizing and respecting those of others.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

I have none o’ yer bawling, praying, singing niggers on my place; so remember.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Bi-tiden , v. to happen, betide, MD; bityde , C2, C3; beotyde , PP; bitit , pr. s. , PP; bitid , S; bitide , pt. s. , S2; betydde , PP; bitid , pp. , S; betight , pp. , S3; NED.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Now while Ananus was choosing out his men, and putting those that were proper for his purpose in array for fighting, the zealots got information of his undertaking, [for there were some who went to them, and told them all that the people were doing,] and were irritated at it, and leaping out of the temple in crowds, and by parties, spared none whom they met with.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Allusion is here made to the old Buddhist proverb: Sodé no furi-awasé mo tashō no en,— "Even the touching of sleeves in passing is caused by some affinity operating from former lives."
— from Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East by Lafcadio Hearn

Screaming voices, banging doors, and the clatter of kitchens and business premises seem not to trouble them at all.
— from Home Life in Germany by Sidgwick, Alfred, Mrs.

By Paul Strand & Nancy Newhall.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1977 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Four six-pounders, two of which had been taken in the early part of the day, were brought to play upon the house, and, being pushed so near as to be within the command of its fire, were unavoidably abandoned; but a three-pounder which had been also taken, was brought off by Captain Lieutenant Gaines, whose conduct was mentioned with distinction by General Greene.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

The magician insisted that if any man were to rub a little of this precious ointment on his body, he would be perfectly safe, no matter how often his enemies might fire at him.
— from Harper's Young People, June 7, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

The tenderest little chick, “one of these little ones,” nestling behind this soft and gentle shelter, shall be perfectly secure; “none of its bones shall be broken.”
— from My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett

Although manifestly having no part in the scene then being rehearsed for filming, they continued to hold their arms in this restrained and presumably uncomfortable attitude, as though they might be practising some new form of a deep-breathing exercise.
— from Local Color by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb