Nor indeed does Aristobulus, the son of Alexander, pretend that the name of king was taken before his father Alexander took it himself, Antiq.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

We therefore anchored, and I landed; but the nine days’ inactivity to which I had been forced to submit had so cramped my limbs, that for a time I had almost lost the use of them, and could scarcely walk.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

"And by my faith and troth, I have a good part of a mind to have thee beaten for thine insolence!"
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

And then—you were both so perfectly adorable to me—and you made me feel as though I had always been your niece—and not just the wife of your nephew.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

For all that I had an ardent wish to punish her and to make her repent.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

When my Lady asks for a thing, I hear and have half brought it, when the Woman meets me in the middle of the Room to receive it, and at that Instant she says No she will not have it.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

By what accident he discovered Emily, and assisted to release her from a terrible imprisonment, has already appeared, and also the unavailing hope, with which he then encouraged his love, and the fruitless efforts, that he had since made to overcome it.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Perhaps I might add right here, what I hope to demonstrate later, that, so far as I know, the Tuskegee school at the present time has no warmer and more enthusiastic friends anywhere than it has among the white citizens of Tuskegee and throughout the state of Alabama and the entire South.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

There was entreaty for forgiveness, and trust in him, and tenderness—soft, timid tenderness—and promise and hope and love for him, which he could not but believe in and which choked him with happiness.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In so far as the indefinable had an influence upon Isabel’s behaviour at this juncture, it was not the conception, even unformulated, of a union with Caspar Goodwood; for however she might have resisted conquest at her English suitor’s large quiet hands she was at least as far removed from the disposition to let the young man from Boston take positive possession of her.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

"Now, by Crist," quod the kyng, "And I cacche myghte Fals or Favel, Or any of hise feeris, 1270 I wolde be wroken of tho wrecches That wercheth so ille, And doon hem hange by the hals, And alle that hem maynteneth; Shal nevere man of this molde Meynprise the leeste, But right as the lawe wol loke, Lat falle on hem alle." Page 40 {40} And comaunded a constable That com at the firste, 1280 To attachen tho tyrauntz, "For any thyng I hote, And fettreth faste Falsnesse, For any kynnes giftes, And girdeth of Gyles heed, And lat hym go no ferther; And if ye lacche Lyere, Lat hym noght ascapen
— from The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume 1 of 2 by William Langland

Now, for a time, I have a breathing space.
— from The Drunkard by Guy Thorne

F.; and this I have attempted to do.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

In the dread light of its unholy fires, we see, as never before, how cursed and doubly accursed a thing is slavery—making men forget all that is holiest and sacredest, quenching all their inspirations of patriotism, and leading them to sell body and soul for mad ambition.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

While my Indians, bent double, were running about scanning the soft ground for a trail, I heard a well-known voice close behind me say: "They're over to the right, in that clump of cedars.
— from In the Valley by Harold Frederic

The schooner evidently depended upon the vastly superior strength of her crew to carry the cutter by boarding, and so abstained from attempting to injure her, as the less damage she suffered the better value she would be as a prize.
— from By Conduct and Courage: A Story of the Days of Nelson by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

If for a time I have absented myself from her, it is to think and work for her redemption.
— from Round the Sofa; vol. 2 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The firing about the island had almost ceased, and the silence was more ominous than the noise of bullets.
— from The Price of the Prairie: A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter

“What is it, sir?” “Finish your grog first, and then I have a job for you.”
— from It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade

He had a kind of dull, bourgeois rationalism, which used to find reasons for all things in heaven and earth.
— from The Watcher by the Threshold by John Buchan