Witnesses: Osmund, our Chancellor; Lanfrank, the Archbishop of Canterbury; and T. Archbishop of York; Roger, Earle of Shrewesbury; Alane, the county; Geffrey de Magnavilla; and Ralph Peuerel.”
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

And marry them they do, making a regular contract!
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

They may be explained by the fact that he was the most finished pleader of an age which required above all that its orators should be terse, brilliant, and striking, and by his own painful consciousness of the dull monotony and repulsive sadness of great part of his subject, which needed the help of every sort of variety to stimulate the flagging interest of the reader.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

You were as pale and still as a dead man, and remained for a quarter of an hour in a kind of swoon, the like of which I have never seen.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But she had no wish to look out, for this would have interfered with her theory that there was a strange, unseen place on the other side—a place which became to the child’s imagination, according to its different moods, a region of delight or of terror.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

The hero measur’d first, with narrow view, The destin’d mark; and, rising as he threw, With its full swing the fatal weapon flew.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

I ordered the horses to be saddled, dressed myself, and ran down to the baths.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

At this point I set up the Dionysus of the Greeks: the religious affirmation of Life, of the whole of Life, not of denied and partial Life (it is typical that in this cult the sexual act awakens ideas of depth, mystery, and reverence).
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When they were gone out, I drew my arm round her waist.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Some doubt may arise respecting the precise
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

To him was given dominion, magnificence and rule.
— from Browning and His Century by Helen Archibald Clarke

This king gave them leave to come through them; so they came in great multitudes, and fell upon the Medes unexpectedly, and plundered their country, which they found full of people, and replenished with abundance of cattle, while nobody durst make any resistance against them; for Paeorus, the king of the country, had fled away for fear into places where they could not easily come at him, and had yielded up every thing he had to them, and had only saved his wife and his concubines from them, and that with difficulty also, after they had been made captives, by giving them a hundred talents for their ransom.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Anyhow, drop me, and run this affair on your own."
— from The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley by Louis Tracy

So the workmen hurried away, and set to work; and by June they had raised within the castle walls the most beautiful farmhouse in Sussex; and over the door made a room fit for a queen.
— from Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Eleanor Farjeon

We made off down the narrow lake, which lies between two walls of high bleak mountains, but far in the distance more alluring ranges arose.
— from The Trail of the Goldseekers: A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse by Hamlin Garland

He thought a whole hive of the insects were about to settle down on him, when he was caught by a big fish that shook him in its mouth as a dog might a rat.
— from The White Crystals: Being an Account of the Adventures of Two Boys by Howard Roger Garis

On the thirteenth of that month, the governor issued his proclamation, disapproving of the district meetings, and requiring the people to forbear sending delegates to the general convention.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (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

Señor Anselmo left the room, and quicker than could have been expected from his years and infirmities, Don Mateo appeared, ready to go out.
— from The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 by Armando Palacio Valdés