The last canto brings our knight to the Green Chapel, after he is repeatedly warned to turn back in the face of certain death.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

In the whole course of his life He has never been known to transgress a single rule of his order; The smallest stain is not to be discovered upon his character; and He is reported to be so strict an observer of Chastity, that He knows not in what consists the difference of Man and Woman.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

"I can ask him," I replied, "but he'll refuse."
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Carry him gently to my fairest chamber, And hang it round with all my wanton pictures; Balm his foul head in warm distilled waters, And burn sweet wood to make the lodging sweet.
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

The art of taking or drinking tobacco was much cultivated and had its regular professors.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

He was very respectful, exceedingly respectful, when he declared, as you were a witness to; still at the same time, if I am to be persecuted in this way, if vegetable what’s-his-names and all kinds of garden-stuff are to strew my path out of doors, and gentlemen are to come choking up our chimneys at home, I really don’t know—upon my word I do not know—what is to become of me.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The Beauforts had been among the first people in New York to own their own red velvet carpet and have it rolled down the steps by their own footmen, under their own awning, instead of hiring it with the supper and the ball-room chairs.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

He's looking for the path to the city, and he is right, don't forget that.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

By the well I mean such as had received the contagion, and had it really upon them, and in their blood, yet did not show the consequences of it in their countenances: nay, even were not sensible of it themselves, as many were not for several days.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

Pavlutski was consequently obliged to seek reinforcements at Anadyr, where he told that the Chukchees shot his men from the heart of the cliff , and hence it received the name of Serdze Kamen, or the heart-cliff."
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Conduct of itself, however, is merely the outward expression of character; and character again has its roots in personality; so that if we are to form a just conception of life we have to examine the forces which shape human personality and raise it to its highest power and efficiency.
— from Christianity and Ethics: A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Archibald B. D. (Archibald Browning Drysdale) Alexander

I sent the Governor a box of cigars; and he in return sent us off some sheep and shaddocks.
— from Mark Seaworth by William Henry Giles Kingston

"If the Chief of a heathen tribe accepts the Koran his people are at once counted as converts and he is received into favor, and is thus prepared to become an instrument in conquering other tribes.
— from Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 by Frank F. (Frank Field) Ellinwood

Captain Jones humanely, and very wisely, informed the crews of these vessels, that if they would cordially assist him in rigging and fitting out such vessels as he required, he would leave them vessels sufficient to cross the Atlantic to their own homes.
— from The Life and Adventures of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones, Commonly Called Paul Jones by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

He sat a blood-horse of Spain, bright chestnut colour and housed in red.
— from The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Hewlett

Carlson, anticipating his intention, reached for the weapon and snatched it, laying hold of it by the barrel.
— from The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

“And,” concludes Dr. William Smith, the chronicler of the campaign, “as he is rendered as dear by his private virtues to those who have the honor of his more intimate acquaintance, as he is by his military services to the public, it is hoped he may long continue among us, where his experienced abilities will enable him, and his love of the English constitution entitle him, to fill any future trust to which his Majesty may be pleased to call him.”
— from The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman

Mr. Sedgwick was clearly of this opinion; in which the Speaker , after some consideration, concurred, as some gentlemen had deserted the call, and he, in reality, did not know whether a fifth part of the members would support a call or not.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

His death was occasioned by the following treachery; for there was one of those that were fled into the caverns, which were a great number, who desired that this Antonius would reach him his right hand for his security, and would assure him that he would preserve him, and give him his assistance in getting up out of the cavern; accordingly, he incautiously reached him his right hand, when the other man prevented him, and stabbed him under his loins with a spear, and killed him immediately.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus