For is it likely that a man who in order to honour the gods journeyed to Olympia, and like Socrates embraced philosophy in obedience to the Pythian oracle,—for he says himself that at home and in private he received the commands of that oracle and hence came his impulse to philosophy 287 —is it likely I say that such a man would not very gladly have entered the temples of the gods but for the fact that he was trying to avoid submitting himself to any set of laws and making himself the slave of any one constitution?
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

The story then goes on to relate the matter of their courtship; how the Prince resolved to forsake his home and inheritance, and become a shepherd, for her sake, as she could not think of matching with one above her degree; how, forecasting the opposition and dreading the anger of his father, he planned for escaping into Italy, in which enterprise he was assisted by an old servant of his named Capnio, who managed the affair so shrewdly, that the Prince made good his escape, taking the old shepherd along with him; how, after they got to sea, the ship was seized by a tempest and carried away to Bohemia; and how at length the several parties met together at the Court of Pandosto, which drew on a disclosure of the facts, and a happy marriage of the fugitive lovers.
— from Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson

He gave himself early to the outlaw band, and was slain.
— from Robin Hood by Paul Creswick

I should have thought his affairs gave him enough to think of....
— from By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson

And now that our sister----there is one speaking to her at this moment, Mark!" "Tis only the innocent," returned the young man, glancing his eye to the other end of the piazza.
— from The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper

se had brought that the girls had extended the time of their stay again.
— from Winona of the Camp Fire by Margaret Widdemer

Standing alone and bare amidst its truck gardens, hideous, extreme, though typical of the entire settlement, composed of fragments ripped from once-appropriate settings, is a house with a tiny body painted strawberry-red, with scroll-work shutters a tender green; surmounting the structure and almost equalling it in size is a sky-blue cupola, once the white crown of the Sutter mansion, the pride of old Hampton.
— from The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete by Winston Churchill

They might manufacture shawls of goats' hair, equal to those of Kashmere, from the goats of the eastern declivity of the Atlas, whose hair is like silk: these goats are called ( el maize Felelley ,) i.e. Tafilelt goats.
— from An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by Shabeeny, Abd Salam, active 1820

Her lips parted, as if about to speak, and closed again, as glancing her eyes toward the open door, she seemed to expect the appearance of the steward's little, rotund form on its threshold, which held her tongue-tied.
— from Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef by James Fenimore Cooper

The husband also, after a day spent in chambers, would give his evenings to teaching or committee work.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.