She persisted: “I assure you, dear, I feel frozen; you don't feel it because you are always moving about; but all the same, I feel frozen.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

'Twas more than once our venturous wight Did homeward turn his aching sight, When pirate's, rocks, and calms and storms, Presented death in frightful forms-- Death sought with pains on distant shores, Which soon as wish'd for would have come, Had he not left the peaceful doors Of his despised but blessed home.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

and if this preposterous fashion should continue to spread, we shall in time have Tasso Torquato , Jonson Ben , Africa explored by Park Mungo , Asia conquered by Lane Tamer , Copperfield David by Dickens Charles , Homer Englished by Pope Alexander , and the Roman history done into French from the original of Live Tite !
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

It is different in form from that of China.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

On all the ships the sails were reefed with fear and trembling, while she sat calmly on the floating iceberg, watching the blue lightning, as it darted its forked flashes into the sea.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

"Secundo," Conseil went on, "the abdominals , whose pelvic fins hang under the abdomen to the rear of the pectorals but aren't attached to the shoulder bone, an order that's divided into five families and makes up the great majority of freshwater fish.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

The scout may start to stalk the blind enemy at one hundred yards' distance, and he must do it fairly fast--say, in one minute and a half--to touch the blind man before he hears him.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Some transitive verbs have English meanings which do not differ in form from the intransitive English verbs to which they are related (conversely to the use explained in 275).
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

It is true that for the courtier a certain rank of nobility was required, [830] but this exigence is expressly declared to be caused by a prejudice rooted in the public mind—‘per l’oppenion universale’—and never was held to imply the belief that the personal worth of one who was not of noble blood was in any degree lessened thereby, nor did it follow from this rule that the prince was limited to the nobility for his society.
— from The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt

Every author who deals in fiction feels it to be his duty to contribute towards the payment of the accumulated interest in the events of the war, by relating his work to them; and the heroes of young-lady writers in the magazines have been everywhere fighting the late campaigns over again, as young ladies would have fought them.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

No; that would not do; he was not in the least afraid to face death in fair fight, but to be arrested by his own countrymen, handed over by them to the hated English, and publicly hanged by the latter from one of the yard-arms of their ship—No; he could not face that ignominy.
— from The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer by Harry Collingwood

The Devises is famous for making excellent Metheglyn.
— from The Natural History of Wiltshire by John Aubrey

“Kind, foolish friend, his affection blinded him and made him see everything as he desired it for Franceline, and now he is vexed with himself, and ashamed very likely, and so he keeps away from me.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

"Where are the harvest fields all white, For Truth to thrust her sickle in? Where flock the souls, like doves in flight, From the dark hiding-place of sin?
— from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

So these men came out, and stood over against the commanders of the Assyrian army; and when Rabshakeh saw them, he bid them go and speak to Hezekiah in the manner following: That Sennacherib, the great king, 1 desires to know of him, on whom it is that he relies and depends, in flying from his lord, and will not hear him, nor admit his army into the city?
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

What date did I fix for his—reappearance, Dexter?
— from Mollentrave on Women: A comedy in three acts by Alfred Sutro