The great land owners (or magnates ), by gathering around them hordes of gentle-born, landless dependents, were able to support private armies, and to exercise a preponderating influence on the affairs of the country.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

"Be resolute and great To keep thy muscles trained" that you may be fit to do something to show forth your sense of the exceeding great love of our Master and only Saviour Jesus Christ.
— from Stray Thoughts for Girls by Lucy Helen Muriel Soulsby

This is that barren mockery of knowledge which comes of attending on great Lecturers, or of mere acquaintance with reviews, magazines, newspapers, and other literature of the day, which, however able and valuable in itself, is not the instrument of intellectual education.
— from The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by John Henry Newman

As we have said above, if the great length of our morning service is to continue unabridged, music must remain an essential part of it: without the intervention of this, attention could hardly for so long a time, and amidst so many repetitions, be kept alive; and if introduced, it ought to be good.
— from The Harmonicon. Part the First by Various

Glorv Goldie looked out over miles and miles of country.
— from The Emperor of Portugallia by Selma Lagerlöf

If I should unluckily fall into the enemy's hands, they will get little out of me.
— from Boscobel; or, the royal oak: A tale of the year 1651 by William Harrison Ainsworth

Four of the greatest figures—One of them supreme—who were not "natural celibates" in the sense that implies that they did not have surging through them the divine impulse of creative love; for these are the greatest lovers the world has ever seen, and compared with theirs even the great love of one man for one woman, one woman for one man, is the lesser thing.
— from Sex and Common-Sense by A. Maude (Agnes Maude) Royden

It was upon this first report, presented by the Executive, on the Military Defences of the United States,—a report drawn up in a very large degree by the hand of M. Poussin, and illustrated throughout with his discovery and suggestion,—that Congress, by an almost unanimous vote, authorized the erection of the great line of our military defences, adopting the recommendations of the commissioner without even the slightest alteration.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various

See you this knight now, his gorget loosed off—" "O messire!" said a faint voice hard by, "if ye have any pity save me from the crone—for the love of Christ let not the hag slay me as she hath so many—save me!"
— from Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol