the charge of battle bear; Your brave associates and yourselves revere!
— from The Iliad by Homer

“If it has disappeared, madam, it can only be by your will.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The eldest prince replied, “Doubtless such a man’s head should be cut off; but before you kill, you should see whether the man is really faithless.”
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

The second prince replied, “Doubtless such a man’s head should be cut off, but before you kill you should see whether the man is really faithless.”
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

The youngest prince replied, “Doubtless such a man’s head should be cut off, but before you kill you should see whether the man is really faithless.”
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

Then it can only be by your recommendation.
— from No Defense, Volume 3. by Gilbert Parker

“That can only be because your husband hasn’t told you.
— from The Raft by Coningsby Dawson

Scarabs were his sacred playthings, and by the time of his going to school he was able to write letters home in a demotic which would not perhaps have satisfied Champollion or Brugsch, but yet was sufficiently marvellous to his schoolfellows and gratifying to his father.
— from A Life's Morning by George Gissing

This crossin' of bridges before you come to 'em is likely to make life mighty hard for a young chap like yourself, an' considerin' all you've told me, I wonder at it."
— from Off Santiago with Sampson by James Otis

If it do seem so, it can only be because your heart is in the earthly hopes, but not in the higher and holier hopes—because love to Christ is still to you but a name—because you can give more ardor of thought to the anticipation of a coming holiday than to the hope of heaven and glory everlasting.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, June 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

Truly it was a new and strange thing to have within the Royal Highland Regiment a cohort of “brave blacks;” yet it displays a generous sentiment which reflects honour upon the regiment.
— from History of the Scottish Regiments in the British Army by Archibald K. Murray

"Skipper," says he, "you're a cagey old bird, but you don't know it all.
— from The Postmaster by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

At Caribou we also made acquaintance with the Canadian customs officer, Mr. John Turnure, a fine type of Canadian official, big, bluff, yet courteous, who at first was going to tax all my cartridges and kodak films, notwithstanding I had passed the customs at Winnipeg and had come from Vancouver direct, but who, upon explanation, relented, and after ward called on us and invited H——, Mr. B—— and myself to call on his wife and family at his log cabin mansion near the station, which we did, and were served cake and coffee from dainty china, and sat on a divan covered with priceless furs, near a good piano.
— from In to the Yukon by William Seymour Edwards

Canon Maurice (reads)—"'Eighthly: Joan, you said that you jumped down out of the tower of the Castle of Beaurevoir because you preferred death to falling into the hands of the English; and that, despite the advice of the archangel St. Michael and your saints, who ordered you not to attempt to escape or kill yourself, you persevered in your project.
— from The Executioner's Knife; Or, Joan of Arc by Eugène Sue