When he was come to Chios, he outraged Merope, the daughter of Oenopion, being drunken; but Oenopion when he learned of it was greatly vexed at the outrage and blinded him and cast him out of the country.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod
I hope, Father Jove, that you will not be angry if I hit Mars hard, and chase him out of the battle.
— from The Iliad by Homer
And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
— from The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot
The Prince was offended by the flattery, if any one praised him and combated his opinion of himself, and still it would not do to support him in his modesty.
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach
Out of respect to his character, however, and from regard to his merit, they raised him up, when they recognised him, with as much care as if he had been their own commander, and revived him, and carried him out of that remote valley into the road, and they scarcely believed their own senses, on account of the unexpected joy; however, some of them sent on messages to Messene, that the war was at an end, for they were bringing Philopœmen prisoner.
— from The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books by Livy
It's a pity we're not Cardinals, to have a canopy held over our heads all the way—— Sh-sh-sh!
— from The Gadfly by E. L. (Ethel Lillian) Voynich
Prithee, how long has a child hardly out of the nursery dared to oppose my will?
— from Stories from the Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile
Common politeness forbade this, and so she soon found herself alone, carrying his overcoat on one bank, and he keeping pace with her on the other.
— from Taken Alive by Edward Payson Roe
How Denny regarded the matter when he found that George had not only cheated him out of the anticipated delight of cowhiding him, but had also cheated him out of himself is left for the imagination to picture.
— from The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still
Pete knew that if he started a row he would get properly licked—that the boys would all pile on him and chase him out of town.
— from The Ridin' Kid from Powder River by Henry Herbert Knibbs
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