Then said the damosel, Me repenteth, Green Knight, of your damage, and of your brother's death, the Black Knight, for of your help I had great mister, for I dread me sore to pass this forest.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

The difference most relied on, between the American and other republics, consists in the principle of representation; which is the pivot on which the former move, and which is supposed to have been unknown to the latter, or at least to the ancient part of them.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

[drily] Most rich men are, I notice.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

to set to one's seal, to make a solemn declaration, Jno. 3.33: from Σφρᾱγίς, ῖδος, ἡ, a seal, a signet ring, Re. 7.2; an inscription on a seal, motto, 2 Ti. 2.19; a seal, the impression of a seal, Re. 5.1, et al.; a seal, a distinctive mark, Re. 9.4; a seal, a token, proof, 1 Co. 9.2; a token of guarantee, Ro. 4.11.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

oder Hammer sein —Thou must mount up or sink down, must rule and win or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be anvil or hammer.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Not only do we try to find a certain kind of explanation as the cause, but those kinds of explanations are selected and preferred which dissipate most rapidly the sensation of strangeness, novelty and unfamiliarity,—in fact the most ordinary explanations.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

136 silvae ditissima = most rich in forests .—Sidgwick.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

“But I love above all in this cemetery the deserted portion, solitary, full of great yews and cypresses, the older portion, belonging to those dead long since, and which will soon be taken into use again; the growing trees nourished by the human corpses cut down in order to bury in rows beneath little slabs of marble those who have died more recently.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

A week after this scandal Don Martino returned to Barcelona; but Nina remained as impudent as ever, doubled the size of the red cockades which she made her servants wear, and swore that Spain would avenge her on the insolent archbishop.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

[183] "The Comparative Abilities of the Fair and the Dark," Monthly Review , August, 1901.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Havelock Ellis

The sun had already gilded the dome of St. Paul, when Winter, Catesby, Wright and Digsby made ready to take their departure.
— from The Fifth of November A Romance of the Stuarts by Charles S. Bentley

Mr. Meekin expressed some alarm; but Dr. Macklewain re-assured him.
— from For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke

It seemed too much that Mary should monopolize not only Peter (though that was well enough), but also the wealthy party from Manchester, who had been sent by Providence, as she still thought, to open a larger sphere of usefulness to her daughter; meaning really, if self-delusion would ever let us speak plainly to ourselves, a carriage and pair and a handsome establishment.
— from Inchbracken: The Story of a Fama Clamosa by Robert Cleland

I can understand Crichton's speaking of their appeal to the imagination while we were in the midst of them; for our presence there seemed an illusion—a dream more radiant than any reality could be.
— from Faery Lands of the South Seas by James Norman Hall

During my residence among them their progress in industry became too marked to be overlooked.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various