But since thou sayest thy God is so great, let him make it so that to-morrow we have a cloudy day but without rain, and then let us meet again.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

[Sir] W. Pen and I to White Hall, and in the coach did begin our discourse again about Balty, and he promises me to move it this very day.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He also ascribed to him the releasing of the prisoners that were in the hippodrome, and many other things, that either had been certainly done by him, or were believed to be done, and easily might be believed to have been done, because they were of such a nature as to be usually done by young men, and by such as, out of a desire of ruling, seize upon the government too soon.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The boundary line of his dominions was never clearly defined; but his principal park embraced a circuit of fifty miles.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

v [c1] do by the thousands.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Hadding is a variant of the world-old Rhampsinitos tale, but less elaborate, possibly abridged and cut down by Saxo, and reduced to a mere moral example in favour of the goldenness of silence and the danger of letting the tongue feed the gallows.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Next moment the stairs creaked and Mrs. Perks came down, buttoning her bodice.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

“Alas!” said Felton, “I can do but one thing, which is to pity you if you prove to me you are a victim!
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Stein played without affectation or flourishes the prelude of Casta Diva ; but the pure, limpid, and powerful voice of the Gaviota made her so well heard, that the spectators seemed touched as by a magic wand.
— from La Gaviota: A Spanish novel by Fernán Caballero

I again saw Rāma, clad in white, and adorned with garlands, ride along with Lakshmana in a charriot drawn by eight white bullocks.
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume Two. Āranya, Kishkindhā, and Sundara Kāndam by Valmiki

Mounted troops, their trappings of jewel and metal-incrusted leather glistening in the sunlight, formed the vanguard of the body, and then came a thousand gorgeous chariots drawn by huge zitidars.
— from Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

After walking down the hill a long way we came to a bridge, under which the water dashed through a dark channel of rocks among trees, the lake being at a considerable distance below, with cultivated lands between. Close upon the bridge was a small hamlet, 5 a few houses near together, and huddled up in trees—a very sweet spot, the only retired village we had yet seen which was characterized by "beautiful" wildness with sheltering [Pg 30] warmth.
— from Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Dorothy Wordsworth

Quant à la prison, elle est fortifiée en forteresse; et le prêtre et moi nous sommes gardés comme des bêtes sauvages par les guichetiers durs.
— from A Blundering Boy: A Humorous Story by Bruce Weston Munro

This is the salon, and there," he pointed to a curtained door behind them, opening into a small room that Aimée had already seen, "there is your boudoir and beyond that, your sleeping apartment.
— from The Fortieth Door by Mary Hastings Bradley

As I came down by Merrimass among the stunted trees, the bonniest child I ever saw lay asleep among his dogs.
— from Stories of the Scottish Border by William Platt

THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 29: Florence to Trieste by Giacomo Casanova

We have the remarkable case of the Theban legion—another instance of a large number of men being surrounded and cut down by soldiers without being questioned as to whether they were in a state of grace, or whether they were prepared to die.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

The Chevalier de Guer, the Marquis de Trémargat, my uncle the Comte de Bedée, nicknamed Bedée the Artichoke, because of his stoutness, as opposed to another Bedée, long and slim, who was called Bedée the Asparagus, broke a number of chairs in climbing on them to deliver their harangues.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 1 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de