Pardon the error of enraged wight, Whom great griefe made forget the raines to hold Of reasons rule, to see this recreant knight, 365 No knight, but treachour full of false despight And shamefull treason, who through guile hath slayn The prowest knight that ever field did fight, Even stout Sansfoy (O who can then refrayn?) Whose shield he beares renverst, the more to heape disdayn.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

These differences accordingly separated them into two parties, the Papacy adhering strongly to the doctrine as it was then accepted, while various leaders in the north of Europe, including Martin Luther in Germany, Swingli in Switzerland, and John Calvin in France and Geneva, broke with the authority of the Pope and declared for a liberation of the individual conscience.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

At which the man of spirit drew, And instantly disarm’d and slew The Thief, his honor to maintain.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

"I'll sit here a little and go and look at the dolls again," said the boy, and smiled thinking of them.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The next enterprise undertaken by Theseus far surpassed all his other feats of heroic daring, and secured to him the universal admiration and gratitude of his fellow-citizens.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Instant silence fell on the gay throng, and not a sound, but the dash of fountains or the rustle of orange groves sleeping in the moonlight, broke the hush, as Count de Adelon spoke thus: "My lords and ladies, pardon the ruse by which I have gathered you here to witness the marriage of my daughter.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

We must by no means conclude it possible for a body of light cavalry deployed as skirmishers to accomplish as much as the Cossacks or other irregular cavalry.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Inured now for so long a time to rooms with bare boards, black benches, desks, and stoves, the blue saloon seemed to me gorgeous.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

He took a step to the door and seized the walking-stick which was standing behind it.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

Further back still the neural spines and zygapophyses gradually become reduced and disappear, as finally the neural arch does also, so that the last few vertebrae consist simply of cylindrical centra.
— from The Vertebrate Skeleton by Sidney H. (Sidney Hugh) Reynolds

Ther'd been a collection made at the Longloin Sunday Schooil for a new gas meeter; an after they'd getten th' brass, they bethought 'em 'at th' old en could be made do, an' soa th' taichers agreed to have a trip wi' th' funds.
— from Yorkshire Ditties, First Series To Which Is Added The Cream Of Wit And Humour From His Popular Writings by John Hartley

While the carriage proceeds homewards the party does not converse as freely as they did a short time before, under the exhilaration arising from gas-light and gossip.
— from Physiology of the Opera by Scrici

For a short period the British batteries on both sides were in the hands of the enemy, but they were quickly regained by bayonet charges; and on the north bank Colonel Dudley, after spiking the captured guns, having marched with 400 men to attack the British camp, was drawn into an ambuscade by the Indians, and himself and about half his men were slain.
— from The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock, K.B. Interspersed with notices of the celebrated Indian chief, Tecumseh, and comprising brief memoirs of Daniel De Lisle Brock, Esq., Lieutenant E.W. Tupper, R.N., and Colonel W. De Vic Tupper by Brock, Isaac, Sir

Being in perfect darkness, and supposing the alarm to be on account of thieves, he seized his sharp parang, and groped his way to her sleeping place, where his hand fell upon a slimy reptile.
— from Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould

Jimmy accepted and launched into his argument with all the vim of an enthusiast discussing a subject to which he had given thought.
— from Mixed Faces by Roy Norton

And of tho 180, I have seen 62 on that o part, and 33 on that other part, that ben 95 degrees, and nyghe the halfondelle of a degree; and so there ne faylethe
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

So, the next day, when he proposes to bring his best customer and wife home to dinner—assuring them that he is a plain man—his wife turns the house plain to the nth degree and serves them a plain dinner in the plainest of ways.
— from Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act by Raymond MacDonald Alden

The compilation of his smaller text-books was usually done at such times.
— from The Right Honourable Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe P.C., D.C.L., F.R.S. A Biographical Sketch by T. E. (Thomas Edward) Thorpe