Accept the kingdom thine by right, And so thy faithful friends delight.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Fairest resemblance of thy Maker faire, Thee all living things gaze on, all things thine By gift, and thy Celestial Beautie adore With ravishment beheld, there best beheld Where universally admir’d; but here In this enclosure wild, these Beasts among, Beholders rude, and shallow to discerne Half what in thee is fair, one man except, Who sees thee?
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

In the person of King William IV., before he succeeded to the throne, the office of Lord High Admiral was vested for a short time, but it had really fallen into desuetude at an earlier date and has not been revived again, so that to all intents and purposes it is now extinct, and this recognised method of depicting arms is consequently also extinct.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The wood was got together, and when she was fast bound to the stake, and the fire began to burn round about her, the hard ice of pride melted, her heart was moved by repentance, and she thought, "If I could but confess before my death that I opened the door."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

14 The principal members of the senate applauded the [Pg 523] consul's statement of the business on the whole; but said that "as the states were differently circumstanced, that their plan might be readily adjusted so that it might be determined according to the desert of each, if they should put the question regarding each state specifically."
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

And Ráma took, by toil oppressed, With Sítá and his brother, rest; And so the night, with sweet content, In Bharadvája's grove was spent.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

“But if I were right, I should be rendering a service to my Fatherland for which I am ready to die.”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Fortunately, Sister did not stay to see whether the large helping of stew was eaten, but rose and stumbled towards her room which was next to the dining-room.
— from Wild Honey: Stories of South Africa by Cynthia Stockley

had been repaired and sent to Dakhala, was continually carrying troops and stores from the east to the west bank.
— from Khartoum Campaign, 1898; or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh

He laid his hand on her bridle rein, and she turned and looked in his eyes; and he saw that therein which made him glad in the midst of the dangers—though he was too much accustomed to battle to have fear for himself—it was as a man, that had been long voyaging, might see, in a clear dawn, the cliffs of his home across the leaping seas.
— from Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset by Arthur Christopher Benson

Eliphaz burst out in front when the barrier rose and stayed there, triumphantly kicking clods in the faces of his pursuers.
— from Old Man Curry: Race Track Stories by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan

“It must have been rather a shock to him,” she said.
— from The Tempting of Tavernake by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Coming away one afternoon from one of the exercises of commencement week at Talladega College, a prominent white citizen said in comment on a speech he had just heard: "There is a good deal of foolish talk about how much the Spanish-American war has done in bringing the North and South together; but the fact is, that schools like this, in which the Negro is taught to be law-abiding and to live a moral life, administered as this one is with such good sense and wisdom, are doing far more than any sentimental influences of the war to bring races and sections to mutual good understanding."
— from The American Missionary — Volume 54, No. 03, July, 1900 by Various

It was the most powerful instrument for the propagation of those democratic ideas that were so attractively clothed by Rousseau and so terribly distorted by the revolutionists.
— from Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Samuel Peter Orth

The wind here came howling across the short grass, blowing the women's skirts wide and straining their bonnet-strings, pressing the men's trousers tight against their shins as they bent against it in the attitude of butting rams and scanned the coast-line to the sou'-west.
— from I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch

We had gone to work at eight o'clock feeling unusually good—we expected to be relieved at seven that night, and we had been promised a seven days' leave to Blighty, so I could hardly wait for the day to pass.
— from Into the Jaws of Death by Jack O'Brien

Instead, he drunkenly mounted a box that he found in the betting ring, and started to make an address to the hustling bettors.
— from Taking Chances by Clarence Louis Cullen