my husband's brother had my son Thralled in his castle, and hath starved him dead; And standeth seized of that inheritance Which thou that slewest the sire hast left the son.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

The cayote of the deserts beyond the Rocky Mountains has a peculiarly hard time of it, owing to the fact that his relations, the Indians, are just as apt to be the first to detect a seductive scent on the desert breeze, and follow the fragrance to the late ox it emanated from, as he is himself; and when this occurs he has to content himself with sitting off at a little distance watching those people strip off and dig out everything edible, and walk off with it.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

The Shepherd suspected a Wolf of the deed and so set out toward a rocky region among the hills, where there were caves infested by Wolves.
— from The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter by Aesop

‘Then,’ said Mr. Gregsbury, ‘it would be necessary for him to make himself acquainted, from day to day, with newspaper paragraphs on passing events; such as “Mysterious disappearance, and supposed suicide of a potboy,” or anything of that sort, upon which I might found a question to the Secretary of State for the Home Department.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Exercises demanding a sustained support of the body with the arms are not helpful, but may be harmful.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Climbing to the top of a high look-out I espied the smoke of Circe's house rising upwards amid a dense forest of trees, and when I saw this I doubted whether, having seen the smoke, I would not go on at once and find out more, but in the end I deemed it best to go back to the ship, give the men their dinners, and send some of them instead of going myself.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

During substantially the whole of her short life of five or six years the queen lives in the Egyptian darkness and stately seclusion of the royal apartments, with none about her but plebeian servants, who give her empty lip-affection in place of the love which her heart hungers for; who spy upon her in the interest of her waiting heirs, and report and exaggerate her defects and deficiencies to them; who fawn upon her and flatter her to her face and slander her behind her back; who grovel before her in the day of her power and forsake her in her age and weakness.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

OF. degoutter (Cotg.), and Lat. gutta , a drop, a spot, speck on an animal.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

After continuing their attacks during that day and most of the next, the Peloponnesians desisted, and the day after sent some of their ships to Asine for timber to make engines, hoping to take by their aid, in spite of its height, the wall opposite the harbour, where the landing was easiest.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

They landed upon Clark's Neck, at the mouth of the river, and between six o'clock in the evening on the 5th of September and twelve the next day, destroyed about seventy sail of vessels, many of them prizes taken by American privateers, and several small craft; burned the magazine, wharves, stores, warehouses, vessels on the stocks, all the buildings at M'Pherson's wharf, the principal part of the houses at the head of the river, and the mills and houses at Fairhaven, opposite.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

3. Does a strong sense of social unity make a vigorous individualism harder to maintain? II.
— from The Social Principles of Jesus by Walter Rauschenbusch

Reared amid the deep and scholarly seclusion of the old court at Kyōto, the young Empress found herself occupying a position very different from that for which she had been educated,—a position the duties and responsibilities of which grow more multifarious as the years go by.
— from Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition by Alice Mabel Bacon

Here were pirates who had discovered the Dominion and salvaged some of her precious stores.
— from The Brighton Boys in the Submarine Treasure Ship by James R. Driscoll

The properties of this light having been examined and compared with those of the sun by Professors Roscoe and Bunsen, with a view to photographic purposes, they came to the conclusion that ‘the steady and equable light evolved by magnesium wire, burning in the air, and the immense chemical action thus produced, render this source of light valuable as a simple means of obtaining a given amount of chemical illumination, and that the combustion of this metal constitutes a definite and simple source of light for the purpose of photochemical measurement.’
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

Vain without it, worse than vain, [Pg 61] will be the most diligent and successful study of the apologetics of the Bible.
— from To My Younger Brethren: Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work by H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule

The word here used is elsewhere translated by “destroyed,” “brought to nought,” “abolished,” “made of none effect.” “Knowledge” here probably refers to definite and systematic statements of real insights.
— from Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

Cozzarelli, Neroccio, and the Turini just fail to attain distinction; but their force and virility should have fructified Jacopo's ideas and developed a supreme school of monumental sculpture.
— from Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by Crawford, David Lindsay, Earl of