And therefore, albeit that there be many diverse laws in the world, yet I trow, that God loveth always them that love him, and serve him meekly in truth, and namely them that despise the vain glory of this world, as this folk do and as Job did also.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

to be thick on the heights; and seeing his men in low spirits, owing both to the fatigue they had gone through, and that which still lay before them, Hannibal called them together and tried to cheer them by dwelling on the one possible topic of consolation in his power, namely the view of Italy: which lay stretched out in both directions below those mountains, giving the Alps the appearance of a citadel to the whole of Italy.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

18 I will confront these shows of the day and night, I will know if I am to be less than they, I will see if I am not as majestic as they, I will see if I am not as subtle and real as they, I will see if I am to be less generous than they, I will see if I have no meaning, while the houses and ships have meaning, I will see if the fishes and birds are to be enough for themselves, and I am not to be enough for myself.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

"If I could only have a smoke," he muttered, "it wouldn't be so bad waiting to see what the play is."
— from Six Feet Four by Jackson Gregory

"But, monsieur, I have already served his Majesty in the urban guard, and I pay my taxes, tithes, and so forth, regularly."
— from The War of Women, Volume 1 by Alexandre Dumas

If the figure that guarded Crete was made of brass, then the monarch, who ruled over it, might be thought to have a still harder metal in his breast, and might have been called a man of iron.
— from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The gentleman with the box and whip here came up to Jem and his friends; and the whip-gentleman took off his hat, and says he, 'Might I be after asking you, is there any one of the present company Squire Kavanagh?'
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

He came manfully upon the hustings, and, without any disguise, he had the courage and the honesty to act like an Englishman and a freeman, by following the conscientious dictates of a noble heart, and speaking his mind, in spite of Magisterial dictation and overbearing tyranny.
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Henry Hunt

He knew the men were glad he and Santos had made it.
— from Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

Here are several hundred men in the two Houses of Congress, far above the average in intelligence, force of character, and ability to accomplish things.
— from My Memories of Eighty Years by Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell) Depew

The hostlers leaped away from the bridles, the coachman resumed the reins, and when the procession of guests, host, and servants had moved into the great room where a fire blazed on the hearth, the horses, tossing their heads, proceeded to the stable.
— from The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes

The daughter of the latter gentleman has already slapped her mother in the face, and bared her buzzum to the breeze.
— from The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell