On chairs and beds in order seated round, They share the gladsome board; the roofs resound, While thus Ulysses to his ancient friend: "Forbear your wonder, and the feast attend: The rites have waited long."
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Bread that is made of baser grain, as peas, beans, oats, rye, or [1378] over-hard baked, crusty, and black, is often spoken against, as causing melancholy juice and wind.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

We thought of giving it a ball to get rid of it, but had no great wish to part with a cartridge, and, besides, it only showed us its nose and forehead, which are not exactly the most vital spots to aim at, when one’s object is to kill with one shot.
— from Farthest North, Vol. II Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen

But soon to this fam'd cervine quarter There came a Bull intent on slaughter, And finding that the Stag I tell of Had got some shares which were thought well of, The Bull began to run them down, And swore they weren't worth half-a-crown; He call'd it all the worst of names, This Junction of St. Giles and James; And thus—these Bulls have so much art with 'em— At last he got the Stag to part with 'em.
— from The Comic Almanack, Volume 2 (of 2) An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett

He found a terror-stricken cat and brought it out safely.
— from The Retreat from Mons By one who shared in it by Arthur Corbett-Smith

In some of our sentences the verb alone is enough to make a complete assertion, but in other sentences we use verbs that need to be followed by one or more words to complete the assertion.
— from Plain English by Marian Wharton

The avocat's pale face flushed, his long, thin fingers twined round each other and untwined, and presently he said, in his little chirping voice, so quaint as to be almost unreal: "I was saying that the spirit of France lived always ahead of the time, was ever first to conceive the feeling of the coming century, and by its own struggles and sufferings—sometimes too abrupt and perilous—made easy the way for the rest of the world."
— from When Valmond Came to Pontiac: The Story of a Lost Napoleon. Volume 1. by Gilbert Parker

He knew what that sort of life was like, the sordid conditions and brutal incidents of such tours led by such Zangiacomos who often were anything but musicians by profession.
— from Victory: An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad

How vile is that sectarian spirit which in cold blood consigns all but its own sect to eternal misery.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

Sure it wasn't any place at all, but one of thim kind of places as the name on has shlipped me mimry, a bog, sorr—leastways it wasn't a bog as ye'd rightly call a bog in Oireland, sorr—no turf nor there wasn't no wather.
— from Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 by Callwell, C. E. (Charles Edward), Sir

I do not say this to disparage those grand men who dared to put themselves against the authorities of the monarchy, and to conceive a better ideal of society, one which they certainly thought would secure equal rights to men; because I realize fully that no one can live very far in advance of the time-spirit, and I am positive in my own mind that, unless some cataclysm destroys the human race before the end of the twentieth century, the experience of the next hundred years will explode many of our own theories.
— from Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre by Voltairine De Cleyre

[399] “Be it known to our honourable father, the archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England, and to all the prelates of holy church, and to all Christians, that all we brethren of the Temple here assembled, and every of one of us are Christians, and believe in our Saviour Jesus Christ, in God the Father omnipotent, &c. &c....”
— from The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by C. G. (Charles Greenstreet) Addison