When his ship was cleared of the men, Gregorius let Ivar be carried to the shore, so that he might escape; and from that time they were constant friends.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

—When thou teachest: ‘All creators are hard, all great love is beyond their pity:’ O Zarathustra, how well versed dost thou seem to me in weather-signs!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

thay all Caled me A foull forty years Now I will Call all fouls but onnes men Now to brove me A foull I Never Could sing Nor play Cards Nor Dance Nor tell A Long storey Nor play on Any mouskel Nor pray Nor make A pen when I was young I Could play on A Jous harp it would mak my mouth warter and the Ladeys sumthing warter gess what I sade Nothing A good Lafe is beter than Crying A Clam will Cry And
— from A Pickle for the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter

And now, because it is not a goddess, but a gift of God, let it be obtained by prayer from Him, by whom alone it can be given, and the whole crowd of false gods vanishes.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

595 Than gan this sorwful Troilus to syke, And seyde him thus, "God leve it be my beste To telle it thee; for sith it may thee lyke, Yet wole I telle it, though myn herte breste;
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

Man's consciousness in it is more immersed in nature, nearer to a vegetative union with the general life; it bemoans division and celebrates harmony with a more passive and lyrical wonder.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Cease, till to good Laertes I bequeath
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Good, very good; let it be conceal'd awhile.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“Thou sayest truth,” said Sir Tristram; “for Sir Lancelot, as all men know, is peerless in courtesy and knighthood, and for the great love I bear to his name I will not willingly fight more with thee his kinsman.”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

[176] These dialogues will be found at great length in Borghini, Vasari, Leonardo da Vinci, Alberti, &c. Castiglione also devotes a canto of the "Cortegiano" to the subject.
— from Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by Crawford, David Lindsay, Earl of

Moreover, he got lessons in bird-stuffing from a negro, who had accompanied the eccentric traveller Waterton in his wanderings, before settling in Edinburgh.
— from Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 by Thomas Henry Huxley

[28] at the watering places near The Hague in Holland and Ostend in Belgium, preparatory to the hour when Germany would seize Belgium and he assume his position as Governor-General, living in Brussels.
— from The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon by Newell Dwight Hillis

THE APPEASEMENT OF DEMETER I Demeter devastated our good land, In blackness for her daughter snatched below.
— from Poems — Volume 2 by George Meredith

The populace are running to the shore to meet their returned Emperor with effusion, whilst poor gouty Louis is being carried away on pickaback, lamenting, ‘Oh Heartwell, 51 I sigh for thy peacefull Shades.’
— from English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. Volume 2 (of 2) by John Ashton

The thinness and pallor are, of course, only just the difference there must be between a saint who fasts, and does so much penance, and keeps herself awake whole nights saying prayers, as St. Elizabeth did, and a prosperous burgher's wife, who eats and sleeps like other people, and is only like the good Landgravine in being so kind to every one.
— from Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles

Tarzan and the golden lion; illustrated by J. Allen St. John.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1951 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

No doubt his accusations interfered with Arnold's promotion by Congress,—promotion he earned as a great leader in battle,—but as an officer responsible for property he was repeatedly unsuccessful.
— from Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold by Archibald Murray Howe

Gilbert lay in bed.
— from The Drunkard by Guy Thorne

you with my entire heart and soul; I live for you alone; none other can possess the great love I bear for you, my husband."
— from Lady Rosamond's Secret: A Romance of Fredericton by Rebecca Agatha Armour