And he possessed all manner of gifts which cannot be told, and these then ensnared him through the devising of Athene.' Fragment #11—Stephanus of Byzantium 1708 , s.v.: '(Heracles) slew the noble sons of steadfast Neleus, eleven of them; but the twelfth, the horsemen Gerenian Nestor chanced to be staying with the horse-taming Gerenians.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

You wouldn't like your chany to go for an old song and be broke to pieces, though yours has got no color in it, Jane,–it's all white and fluted, and didn't cost so much as mine.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

She did make it—and made mother and Gertrude drink it—but I went back to my room and shut my door and locked it, and I knelt by my window and cried—just as Gertrude did when her great news came.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Alcibiades, however, gained no credit, it being thought that he was in the secret of the enemy's designs, and had tried to fasten them upon Phrynichus, and to make out that he was their accomplice, out of hatred; and consequently far from hurting him he rather bore witness to what he had said by this intelligence.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Keep a sharp outlook, ye Centre Grenadiers on duty here: good never came from the 'men in black.'
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

He then proceeds to the history of the Triumvirate formed after Caesar's death by his great nephew Caius Julius Caesar Octavianus, Marcus Antonius, and Lepidus, the quarrels of the Triumviri, the downfall of Lepidus, who was reduced to the condition of a private person, and the death of Sextus Pompeius, the last support of the party in whose cause his father, Cneius Pompeius, lost his life.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

76 The Pink There was once on a time a Queen to whom God had given no children.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

She stated simply that all Chinamans in London called him that; and being pressed further added, with as near an approach to impatience as her gentle nature could muster, that it was obviously because Plince Victo' was Numbe' One: ev'-body knew that .
— from Red Masquerade Being the Story of the Lone Wolf's Daughter by Louis Joseph Vance

He had given no commission to Mrs. Thorne to plead for him.
— from The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope

" There is, in the Hind Let Loose, a curious passage to which I should have given no credit, but for this despatch of Citters.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

In a letter to his notable accomplice and pupil, and the future husband of his great niece, Carr, Lord Rochester and Privy Seal, Howard expressed his spite: 'We had a bout with Sir Walter Ralegh, in whom we find no change, but the same [Pg 253] boldness, pride, and passion, that heretofore hath wrought more violently, but never expended itself in a stronger passion.
— from Sir Walter Ralegh: A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing

“What reason did he give?” “None, Choseph.
— from Lentala of the South Seas: The Romantic Tale of a Lost Colony by W. C. Morrow

On the other hand he gives no credit.
— from The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by W. (William) Roberts

It is impossible, therefore, to acquit Mr. Darwin of at least a certain carelessness in this matter; and the result is, he has the appearance of opposing ideas which he gives no clear evidence of having ever fully appreciated.
— from On the Genesis of Species by St. George Jackson Mivart

Page 306 Think that to Germans you have given no check, Think bow each actor horsed has risked his neck; You've shown them favour.
— from A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook

Jane had given no consent; that did not matter.
— from The Crimson Azaleas: A Novel by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole