Now you must note that Panurge had set at the end of his long codpiece a pretty tuft of red silk, as also of white, green, and blue, and within it had put a fair orange.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

He was her dead sister's child and practically the only relative she had.
— from Kent Knowles: Quahaug by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

And they say that those who would do penance for their own sins look to be their own Christs, and pay their own ransoms, and save their souls themselves.
— from Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by More, Thomas, Saint

Slowly the cattleman again produced the old relic.
— from Cowboy Dave; Or, The Round-up at Rolling River by Frank V. Webster

And well they might, for on the heels of the noise came a perfect torrent of rats.
— from The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest; Or, The Golden Galleon by John Henry Goldfrap

Some one went off to find her chief physician, Monsieur Esprit; he came, said it was colic, and prescribed the ordinary remedies for such ailments.
— from Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV by Frantz Funck-Brentano

htfully through the garden towards the door-way leading to the ramparts, and from thence to the north-west tower, by the green grass and flowers seeming to him a more attractive way than through the long corridor and past the occupied rooms; while Roy made for the armoury, which seemed to be his study now.
— from The Young Castellan: A Tale of the English Civil War by George Manville Fenn

So he set his servants to watch the body of Karpara, and he said to them , “You must arrest any one who may come here lamenting, to burn the corpse and perform the other rites, and so I shall recover that wicked girl who has disgraced her family.”
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

But we may be sure that Knox's judgment on a 'proud mind' as to the more central and personal truths of religion, would not be mitigated by that keen 'wit' which played so freely round its external parts, and transfixed so easily his own theory of Church and State.
— from John Knox by A. Taylor (Alexander Taylor) Innes