Mercury did so, and introduced an equal amount into each in turn—the tallow-chandler, and the greengrocer, and the haberdasher, and all, till he came to the horse-dealer, who was last on the list, when, finding that he had a quantity of the infusion still left, he put it all into him.
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

These gentlemen, after they had a while examined my shape with much nicety, were of different opinions concerning me.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

His grandmother Amphithea threw her arms about him, and kissed his head, and both his beautiful eyes, while Autolycus desired his sons to get dinner ready, and they did as he told them.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

But most of all, which in the Dongeon lay, Fell from high Princes courts, or Ladies bowres; Where they in idle pompe, or wanton play, Consumed had their goods, and thriftlesse howres, And lastly throwne themselves into these heavy stowres.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

In this dream one who wore the pilgrim’s garb appeared to him, and warned him to carry on his person a hammer and seven nails, and when he came to a tree which would be the Pauh Janggi he was to drive the first of the nails into its stem and cling thereto.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

At the park gate; and therefore haste away, For we must measure twenty miles to-day.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Even God attributes to Himself avarice, jealousy, anger; and these are virtues as well as kindness, pity, constancy, which are also passions.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

The blessing of God and the holy angels on your head, young fellow.
— from The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

And as she was going into his house, his eyes being then dim with age, God appeared to him, and informed him of two things; that the wife of Jeroboam was come to him, and what answer he should make to her inquiry.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

SS. Theodosius and Sabas maintained boldly the right of Elias, and of John his successor; whereupon the imperial officers thought it most advisable to connive at their proceedings, considering the great authority they had acquired by {126} their sanctity.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

The mantel-piece was walnut, and the fireplace the orthodox open grate and tiled hearth and back; the overmantel was carved to match the mantel, and was quite flat to the wall, which had been scooped out in some manner behind it, to allow of the formation of sundry square cupboards in the wall itself; these each held a cedar-wood box of cigars, with the front end off; and the cigars were so arranged that they could be taken out one by one, when the square wooden block in the overmantel, which formed the entrance to the cupboard, was unlocked, and fell forward on a hinge.
— from Nooks and Corners being the companion volume to 'From Kitchen to Garret' by J. E. (Jane Ellen) Panton

Albrecht is said to have declared that it was a pure waste to drop a lyddite shell into soft ground, and to have admitted that on rocky ground it had a most demoralising effect.
— from War's Brighter Side The Story of The Friend Newspaper Edited by the Correspondents with Lord Roberts's Forces, March-April, 1900 by Julian Ralph

Better still, marry Anne Goodrich and take her along——" Clavering had flung himself out of the room.
— from Black Oxen by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

"The arena is now clear of all save on the one hand the two Cæsars and their retinues, who have taken their stand very near to us, just opposite to and beneath this platform, my lord; and on the other hand, the group around that horrible animal.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

The Clothworkers Company had already been assisting the Society of Arts in their efforts for the spread of technical education; and in July 1877 a special committee of the Guilds applied to him, amongst half a dozen others, to furnish them with a report as to the objects and methods of a scheme of technical education.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Thomas Henry Huxley

Tyrrell, who believed he should readily recruit himself by my unskilfulness in the game, fell easily into the snare; and on the second night of our engagement, he not only had lost the whole of his remaining pittance, but had signed bonds owning to a debt of far greater amount than he, at that time, could ever even have dreamt of possessing.
— from Pelham — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

As to what lieth before, I have seen our way that it turneth somewhat east tomorrow, and will bring us to a goodly Abbey that hath a noble guest-house, and there, by the help of the Prior's safe-conduct and the gifts I shall give to the saints and the stewards, we shall be put well upon our way.
— from The Sundering Flood by William Morris