Then was the king wonderly wroth, more than he was to-forehand, and said unto King Uriens, My sister, your wife, is alway about to betray me, and well I wot either ye, or my nephew, your son, is of counsel with her to have me destroyed; but as for you, said the king to King Uriens, I deem not greatly that ye be of her counsel, for Accolon confessed to me by his own mouth, that she would have destroyed you as well as me, therefore I hold you excused; but as for your son, Sir Uwaine, I hold him suspect, therefore I charge you put him out of my court.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

An examination of the conditions underlying the radical change that is taking place in the commercial and industrial world; the change from a competitive to a co-operative basis.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

It was arranged that they should leave the following spring, and meantime Jurgis sold himself to a contractor for a certain time, and tramped nearly four hundred miles from home with a gang of men to work upon a railroad in Smolensk.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The king, hearing these words, answered, that he was both willing and bound to receive the faith which Paulinus taught; but that he would confer about it with his chief friends and counsellors, to the end that if they also were of his opinion, they might all together be consecrated to Christ in the font of life.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

I will revenge my injuries: if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear; and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

[AB26; b6c1] 1 play a diminished chord, for a chord to be diminished.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

A foreign minister of no very high talents, who had been in his company for a considerable time quite overlooked, happened luckily to mention that he had read some of his Rambler in Italian, and admired it much.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

He then gave orders, that strict search should be made for Ludovico not only in the chateau, but in the neighbourhood, and, retiring with Henri to his closet, they remained there in conversation for a considerable time, and whatever was the subject of it, Henri from this hour lost much of his vivacity, and his manners were particularly grave and reserved, whenever the topic, which now agitated the Count's family with wonder and alarm, was introduced.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

The essential quality of him was, that he could fight and conquer; that he was a right piece of human Valor.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

General Sherman proved to be the direct answer to my prayers, for he arrived soon after I had begun to look confidently for a chance to leave for Fort Hays.
— from Tenting on the Plains; or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas by Elizabeth Bacon Custer

It gives to them an energy which ultimately rises superior to resistance; a healthful vigour, which they rarely attain to when nourished by the fostering hand of parental solicitude; and it brings them forth into such [184] visible and powerful manifestations, that even the enemies of our common faith are compelled to feel 'How awful goodness is!'" "Yes, Sir," observed Mrs. Stevens, "and we should remember that those who oppose religion, when it takes possession of an individual mind, and exerts its influence over the visible actions of the life, often do it ignorantly.
— from The Sheepfold and the Common; Or, Within and Without. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Timothy East

They were by no means shy, but continued flying about close to the [ 472 ] ship.
— from Farthest North, Vol. I Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen

"There is a county poorhouse, mother, but it doesn't happen to be located in this city, and they [6] won't take in anybody there that hasn't been a resident of the county for a certain time."
— from The Making of Mary by Jean N. (Jean Newton) McIlwraith

The envelope, which was composed of rubber-proofed fabric, gave a volume of 50,000 cubic feet, and contained two ballonets.
— from British Airships, Past, Present, and Future by George Whale

The fusion affects not only the centra, but also the neural arches, so that the neural canals form a continuous tube.
— from The Vertebrate Skeleton by Sidney H. (Sidney Hugh) Reynolds

The angry merchants of this town had without doubt encouraged this man to be thus insolent, or he durst not have refused [Pg 62] to carry the letters, after promising me faithfully, he would call for and carry them.
— from Old Taverns of New York by W. Harrison (William Harrison) Bayles

It only came from a candle that Brian had lit: but its gleam was reflected in millions of stalactites into what seemed an interminable distance—millions of stalactites on the roof and the walls, and millions of ripples beneath gave back the gleam, until the boat appeared to be the centre of a vast illumination.
— from A Gray Eye or So. In Three Volumes—Volume I, II and III: Complete by Frank Frankfort Moore

Dr. Copland insisted that contagion had caused these cases; advised precautionary measures, and the practitioner had no other cases for a considerable time.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The King was highly delighted that the tailor was such a cunning fellow, and consented that the betrothal to his daughter should take place at once.
— from Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various