At length, erecting his frame, he looked upwards, and ejaculated the lines of the Bishop of Chichester: “Stay for me there!
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

But he himself, after offering a second sacrifice to the god, and having embraced his friends and his son, determined not to release his countrymen from their oath, but to put an end to his own life, being at an age when, though life was still pleasant, it seemed time to go to his rest, after having excellently arranged all his people's affairs.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Hence, it resulted when d’Artagnan proceeded to draw his sword in earnest, he found himself purely and simply armed with a stump of a sword about eight or ten inches in length, which the host had carefully placed in the scabbard.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Was it the part of a friend thus to expose her feelings to the notice of others? Isabella appeared to her ungenerous and selfish, regardless of everything but her own gratification.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

—The short reign of Farrukhsiyar was drawing to a close; its end was accelerated by the very means by which that monarch hoped to emancipate himself from the thraldom of the Sayyids, against whose authority the faction of Inayatu-lla was but a feeble counterpoise, and whose arbitrary habits, in the re-establishment of the jizya, lost him even the support of the father of his queen.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

When Will Ladislaw exiled himself from Middlemarch he had placed no stronger obstacle to his return than his own resolve, which was by no means an iron barrier, but simply a state of mind liable to melt into a minuet with other states of mind, and to find itself bowing, smiling, and giving place with polite facility.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

“Has the yellow hen eaten her food all right?”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

who, after manfully facing his accusers before a tribunal of the colonists, exculpating himself from a charge of conspiracy and receiving assurances of amity, had been perfidiously despatched at their instigation.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

And when truth hath once triumphed there, then ask yourselves with good distrust: “What strong error hath fought for it?” Be on your guard also against the learned!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Speaking of the learned tongues, it may be mentioned that, precarious and abandoned as the vagabonds’ existence is, many persons of classical or refined education have from time to time joined the nomadic ranks,—occasionally from inclination, as in the popular instance of Bamfylde Moore Carew, but generally through indiscretions, which involve pecuniary difficulty and loss of character.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

He now clapped on every inch of canvas which could possibly be set, and did his utmost to keep up the spirits of his crew, rating Mr Rawson soundly for his expressing his forebodings of ill.
— from Ronald Morton; or, the Fire Ships: A Story of the Last Naval War by William Henry Giles Kingston

Besides, it had certain peculiar notches on the stock that the gun Elmira had furnished Bruce did not have.
— from The Strength of the Pines by Edison Marshall

Some time before that period, he sent a gold saddle very richly wrought, and adorned with precious stones, a present to the governor of Batavia, desiring in return an European habit for himself and another for his queen.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

EQUISETACEAE (HORSETAIL FAMILY) Field Horsetail ( Equisetum arvense L.) “gîjiˈ bînûsk,” [duck round].
— from Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians by Huron H. (Huron Herbert) Smith

Unfortunately for Mrs. Thomas, Charlie, whilst going on an errand, had fallen in with his ancient friend and adviser—in short, he had met no less a person than the formerly all-sufficient Kinch.
— from The Garies and Their Friends by Frank J. Webb

The jefe remained long enough to reestablish order, though, under his breath, he muttered curses and threats, and expressed his feeling to any official, who chanced to pass.
— from In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr

But he had not the constitution to enjoy his fortune, and in friendship he had not the gift of fidelity.
— from Old and New Masters by Robert Lynd

To the south there lay the only thing that could be called “woods;” and although such a low jungle could lay no claim to the title of “forest,” it was, nevertheless, a likely enough haunt for elephants.
— from Popular Adventure Tales by Mayne Reid

After the first year few people ever had flour to cook; especially was this the case in the southern counties.
— from Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama by Walter L. (Walter Lynwood) Fleming