[15] The Sindis, having no longer cause for discontent, caught the spirit of the brave Amra, and went in a body to the palace to swear in public never to abandon the Rana, whom their leader, Adil Beg, [16] thus 504 addressed: “We have long eaten your salt and received numerous favours from your house, and we now come to swear never to abandon you.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

What pleasure will it be to those [Pg 60] Fathers to hear that a captain who knows the Bulgarian exercise has come to them!"
— from Candide by Voltaire

Cortes took along with him Leon, Alvarado, Oli, and Avila, besides 200 of our troops, bidding them to pay particular attention to everything that passed, and narrowly watch the person of Motecusuma.
— 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

Photographs and tri-dis would have to be taken, the parasite would have to be identified and its sensitivity to therapy determined.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

Well, let us come back to the point,” said Vlassitch, and he stood up.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But then their provisions failed them; what fruits of the ground they had laid up were spent and the land being not ploughed that year, continued unsowed, because it was the seventh year, on which, by our laws, we are obliged to let it lay uncultivated.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The War and the Builders of the Commonwealth , a lecture given at the Queen's Hall by Annie Besant on October 5, 1919, pp. 15, 18 (printed by the Theosophical Publishing Co.).
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

All the ages have been trying to produce a perfect model.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

No person dined with the queen but the two princesses royal, the eldest sixteen years old, and the younger at that time thirteen and a month.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

Mr. McKinley brought to the problem of American government a solution which lay very far outside of Henry Adams's education, but which seemed to be at least practical and American.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

He'd liked me to have painted him looking out of the window of his state-coach, sir, bowing to the populace on Ludgate Hill, with the dome of St. Paul's in the background; but I told him the notion wasn't practicable, sir; I told him it couldn't be done, sir; I----" Laura looked despairingly at Mr. Kerstall the younger.
— from Henry Dunbar: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Keeping these principles in view, it is easy to see that a comparison of the difference of time between two places at the same moment, allowing fifteen degrees for an hour, sixty minutes for every four minutes of time, and sixty seconds for every four seconds of time, affords us an accurate mode of finding the difference of longitude between the two places.
— from Letters on Astronomy in which the Elements of the Science are Familiarly Explained in Connection with Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Astronomers by Denison Olmsted

Now to get back to the Post Road, where the pace is not quite so hot-foot.
— from The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five by C. G. (Charles Gilbert) Hine

But till this period arrived, he should reckon it his duty to adhere to the principles of the constitution, as delivered to us by our ancestors; to defend them against innovation and encroachment, and to maintain them with firmness.
— from The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge

Thrusting in his hand, he seized the animal by the tail, pulled it out, and killed it by a swinging dash against the trunk of a tree.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on its own stock: he who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.
— from Fifteen Discourses by Reynolds, Joshua, Sir

After all, thought Kitty, they were human beings; they would not suffer any the less because they had been born to the purple.
— from The Drums of Jeopardy by Harold MacGrath

These he dated back to the previous Saturday; but only gave them out the last thing on Sunday night.
— from By Right of Sword by Arthur W. Marchmont

There is a passage in the address of the eastern bishops to Tarasius, patriarch of Constantinople, quoted [Pg 262] in the Second Nicene Council of 789, [169] the Seventh General, which cites the words of Justinian given above in one of his laws.
— from The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

The second figure (A129—plate 31) is a graceful suit, composed of: armet, with visor and beavor in one piece (eight reinforcing pieces); gorget; breastplate and backplate, the former engraved with the image of the Blessed Virgin, the latter with that of St. Barbara, the two plates united by straps over the shoulders; espaliers of eight plates; rondel over left armpit; rere-braces, vambraces, coudes, and gauntlets; close-fitting tassets of many plates; cuisses, jambs, and chaussettes of mail for the ankles.
— from Spanish Arms and Armour Being a Historical and Descriptive Account of the Royal Armoury of Madrid by Albert Frederick Calvert