And when Sir Palamides came before the king, he said: Sir King, I require you as ye be a righteous king, that ye will judge me the right.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

He came back to her.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

It is perhaps still more remarkable to see the Mito clan, under many able and active chiefs, become the centre of the Kinno 14 movement, which was to result in the overthrow of the Tokugawa family, of which it was itself a branch."
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

Do not hesitate, therefore, at expressing your surprise at the deterioration of painting, since, by all the gods and men alike, a lump of gold is held to be more beautiful than anything ever created by those crazy little Greek fellows, Apelles and Phydias!”
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

It not only dictates, but of itself tends to produce a more frequent employment of picturesque and vivifying language, than would be natural in any other case, in which there did not exist, as there does in the present, a previous and well understood, though tacit, compact between the poet and his reader, that the latter is entitled to expect, and the former bound to supply this species and degree of pleasurable excitement.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

From a labyrinth of intrigues, we emerge to the adoration of the successful candidate; but the next page opens with his funeral.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The behavior of the person is thus eventually controlled by the formal standards which, implicit in the mores, are explicit in the laws.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Well, I have somehow or other been led into this discussion,—not in accordance with my plan, but compelled by the course of the argument.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Whatever amount of truth the so-called science of physiognomy may contain, appears to depend, as Haller long ago remarked, [1404] on different persons bringing into frequent use different facial muscles, according to their dispositions; the development of these muscles being perhaps thus increased, and the lines or furrows on the face, due to their habitual contraction, being thus rendered deeper and more conspicuous.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Most of the hay was cut, but the last week had been very unfavourable; and now that fine weather was come at last, being determined to make the most of it, I had gathered all hands together into the hay-field, and was working away myself, in the midst of them, in my shirt-sleeves, with a light, shady straw hat on my head, catching up armfuls of moist, reeking grass, and shaking it out to the four winds of heaven, at the head of a goodly file of servants and hirelings—intending so to labour, from morning till night, with as much zeal and assiduity as I could look for from any of them, as well to prosper the work by my own exertion as to animate the workers by my example—when lo!
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

“Oh, I could believe that.
— from Trapped by Malays: A Tale of Bayonet and Kris by George Manville Fenn

[Pg 666] The Human Hand Excepting the figure of the maid's head above described, the human hand, for some unknown reason, is the only part of the body chosen by the ancient Hopi for representation in the decoration of their pottery.
— from Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes

The discrepancy between the [xx] values which would exist in such a society and actual prices represent the disturbance created by the fact that actual society is not a society of equal competitors, but one in which certain competitors start with some kind of advantage or monopoly.
— from Historical materialism and the economics of Karl Marx by Benedetto Croce

It must not be used by direct contact, the best and safest plan being to place a quantity in a small saucer, to be set on the floor of a closed box; to fasten to the box lid the specimen to be operated on; in this way the restoration is due to the fumes of the chemical and a possible danger of destruction of the specimen much lessened, especially if the marks are very light or delicate ones.
— from Forty Centuries of Ink Or, A chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. by David Nunes Carvalho

“The Tipperary Bank.—Failure caused by the frauds of Sadleir.
— from About London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

It would cost over a hundred dollars to do it, most likely, but we could borrow the money from my college fund and the extra rent would soon pay it back."
— from The Camp Fire Girls at School; Or, The Wohelo Weavers by Hildegard G. Frey

Mutual Chivalry between the Scotch and English Courts ...
— from The History of Chivalry; Or, Knighthood and Its Times, Volume 2 (of 2) by Charles Mills

The blind children begged to go back to the school and said that they were very happy there.
— from Two Years in the Forbidden City by Princess Der Ling

My ears are no longer courted by those harmonious instruments and voices which have so transported my soul; they hear nothing but the lowing of the cattle, the bleating of the sheep, the warbling of the birds, and the murmurs of the river.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers by Elbert Hubbard

The sober gentleman in the furred gown ceased to con his parchment and went and kissed the Queen's hand; so likewise did Dan Chaucer, but thereafter withdrew again to his quiet corner.
— from Long Will by Florence Converse