Yet be it known to all men by these presents, that if any honest gentleman will send in so much money, as Cardan allows an astrologer for casting a nativity, he shall be a sharer, I will acquaint him with my project, or if any worthy man will stand for any temporal or spiritual office or dignity, (for as he said of his archbishopric of Utopia, 'tis sanctus ambitus , and not amiss to be sought after,) it shall be freely given without all intercessions, bribes, letters, &c. his own worth shall be the best spokesman; and because we shall admit of no deputies or advowsons, if he be sufficiently qualified, and as able as willing to execute the place himself, be shall have present possession.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

He made a raid on a neighboring baron and completed his outfit with the booty secured.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

And I may be of such that after investigation my origin may prove great and famous, with which the king, my father-in-law that is to be, ought to be satisfied; and should he not be, the princess will so love me that even though she well knew me to be the son of a water-carrier, she will take me for her lord and husband in spite of her father; if not, then it comes to seizing her and carrying her off where I please; for time or death will put an end to the wrath of her parents.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Would to God I could hear one word from his lips at this awful moment!”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

As he paid no attention to her, the men in the audience choked him off with cries of "Sit down!
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Country-seats, cottages, habitations of whichever kind, were burnt.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Forward!” Aramis, wounded as he was, seized the mane of his horse, which carried him on with the others.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

All Todas in the Nilgiri district shall, in respect of their own patta lands, be exempt from the operation of the above rules, and shall be at liberty to graze their own buffaloes, to remove fuel and grass for their domestic requirements, and to collect honey or wax upon such lands.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Indeed, we should have been inevitably lost if we had not continually held our weapons in our hands, kept patrolling and watching day and night, and boldly encountered all weathers.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

He did not know that Mary, anxious about him, had not gone to bed at all, but had resolved to sit up all night in case he should call her or want for anything.
— from The Treasure of Heaven: A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli

‘And as I was saying,’ continued he, ‘or would have said if you hadn’t taken me up so short, I sometimes think I should do better if I were joined to one that would always remind me when I was wrong, and give me a motive for doing good and eschewing evil, by decidedly showing her approval of the one and disapproval of the other.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

This enclosure formed a kind of citadel, where the garrison could hold out when the outer part had fallen into the enemy’s hands.
— from History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 4 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

"Uncle" took Porter and myself up to St. Inglevert with some stores for our small convalescent home, of which more anon.
— from Fanny Goes to War by Pat Beauchamp Washington

It would certainly be strange if he did not seek his acquaintance, which he could have obtained without difficulty, since Poussin was staying at Paris from 1640 to 1642.
— from Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

I do not suppose that he had much talent for the business, or he would have grown rich; but a certain careful zeal carried him on without direct loss, and gave him perhaps five per cent for his capital, whereas he would have received no more than four and a half had he left it alone and taken his dividends without troubling himself.
— from Miss Mackenzie by Anthony Trollope

The Mayor begged for time, and called a meeting of the Aldermen and the better sort, not at Guildhall, but at the 65 Chapter House of Westminster.
— from Mediæval London, Volume 1: Historical & Social by Walter Besant

One might go into the miller's barn twenty times a day, and twenty times a day find nothing but a heap of straw; and although the cog of brose was aye empty in the morning, no one knew when he came home, or when he supped it.
— from Tales From Scottish Ballads by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Wilson) Grierson