The fleet from Cadiz, however, consisting of from seventeen to twenty sail of the line, got out, under Masaredo, a man who then bore an honourable name, which he has since rendered infamous by betraying his country.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

Another method is known as the Ukoran Gĕnap , or Ukor Mandar (of Celebes).
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Jacobus Gervinus a French physician, on the other side, lib. 2. de venemis confut. explodes all this, and saith he took three grains only upon Matthiolus and some others' commendation, but it almost killed him, whereupon he concludes, [4205] antimony is rather poison than a medicine.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

However it is not the gods who are to blame for their poverty, but rather the insatiate greed of us men of property becomes the cause of this false conception of the gods among men, and besides of unjust blame of the gods.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

The gamblers, Isaac List and Jowl, with their trusty confederate Mr James Groves of unimpeachable memory, pursued their course with varying success, until the failure of a spirited enterprise in the way of their profession, dispersed them in various directions, and caused their career to receive a sudden check from the long and strong arm of the law.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Il y a tant de livres là-dessus, répondre en quelques lignes est une gageure ou une marque de mépris ou un manque de sérieux ou une preuve d'inconscience ou une manifestation d'orgueil… = Et la société de l'information?
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

So she bethought herself, and said, "I must go out unto my maid, Who keeps my thoughts for me."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

She again said, "I must go out unto my maid, Who keeps my thoughts for me," And ran out and found Maid Maleen, "Girl, what didst thou say to the foot-bridge?"
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

k) Pianoforte, grand or upright: Mozart and Salieri
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

HUBERT ( going to her ): You're a rum girl, Olivia, upon my soul you are.
— from Night Must Fall : a Play in Three Acts by Emlyn Williams

Tell them to go on up Main Street with their Knights of Pythias parade, and come around some day when we haven't got our hands full.
— from The Man from Home by Harry Leon Wilson

It was the group of uniformed men he had noticed from below.
— from Atlantis by Gerhart Hauptmann

7. Glee, ‘Once upon my cheek,’ (Miss Stephens, Mrs. Knyvett, Vaughan, and Sale.)
— from The Harmonicon. Part the First by Various

Some of the chief variations en in this manuscript are pointed out in the notes; the respectful men on of Curoi mac Dari, who seems to have been a Munster hero, overshadowed in the accepted versions by the superior glory of Ulster, may be noted; also the remark that Ferloga did not get his cepoc, which seems to have been inserted by a later band of a critic who disapproved of the frivolity of the original author, or was jealous for the honour of the Ulster ladies.
— from Heroic Romances of Ireland, Translated into English Prose and Verse — Complete by Arthur Herbert Leahy

Garst, who was an enthusiastic cyclist, with a gurgle of unbelieving mirth, prepared to dispute this.
— from Camp and Trail: A Story of the Maine Woods by Isabel Hornibrook

"Don't let the next boat go out until Mr. Brixton gets there, under any circumstances.
— from The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve