Now for this, my assertion about that passion of his, we have the greatest evidence, by what he did to honor Cæsar and Agrippa, and his other friends; for with what honors he paid his respects to them who were his superiors, the same did he desire to be paid to himself; and what he thought the most excellent present he could make another, he discovered an inclination to have the like presented to himself.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

But they came to me repeatedly, and after having held out for five years I at last gave way.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

I’ll be no longer guilty of this sin; this sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horse-back-breaker, this huge hill of flesh,— FALSTAFF.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

That this lake is artificial and formed by digging is self-evident, for about in the middle of the lake stand two pyramids, each rising above the water to a height of fifty fathoms, the part which is built below the water being of just the same height; and upon each is placed a colossal statue of stone sitting upon a chair.
— from An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

So when Sir Tristram was armed as him liked best, and well shielded and sworded, he dressed to him on foot; for well he knew that Sir Nabon would not abide a stroke with a spear, therefore he would slay all knights' horses.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Lightly to admit conduct in one of your own family that would force you to alter your will, had never been the way of the Dodsons; and though Mrs. Glegg had always augured ill of Maggie's future at a time when other people were perhaps less clear-sighted, yet fair play was a jewel, and it was not for her own friends to help to rob the girl of her fair fame, and to cast her out from family shelter to the scorn of the outer world, until she had become unequivocally a family disgrace.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

There were no late frosts, and the apples bursting into bloom scattered on the grass their rosy white snow which promised a hail of fruit for the autumn.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

This figure is set in the midst of the said scenes on the panel of the altar, round which is a frieze of letters in enamel, that run thus: AD HONOREM DEI ET SANCTI JACOBI APOSTOLI, HOC OPUS FACTUM FUIT TEMPORE DOMINI FRANC.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

Let him take into a tenement block a handful of flowers from the fields and watch the brightened faces, the sudden abandonment of play and fight that go ever hand in hand where there is no elbow-room, the wild entreaty for “posies,” the eager love with which the little messengers of peace are shielded, once possessed; then let him change his mind.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

[282] After, etc. : In the following nine lines the party history of Florence for two years after the period of the poem (March 1300) is roughly indicated.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

She would have taken Bridget, her nurse, into her confidence, but this would have involved a long explanation of her own feelings, from which, like all imaginative children, she shrank.
— from The Queen of the Pirate Isle by Bret Harte

Having thus resolved to serve Farnese and also to finish the chapel in S. Marcello, he obtained for Federigo from M. Tizio da Spoleti, the master of the household to the above-named Cardinal, the commission to paint the façade of a house that he had on the Piazza della Dogana, near S. Eustachio; which was very welcome to Federigo, for he had never desired anything so much as to have some work altogether for himself.
— from Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 08 (of 10) Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero by Giorgio Vasari

When they returned where their mother lived he told them to stake the horses out for four nights.
— from Myths and Tales from the White Mountain Apache Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History Vol. XXIV, Part II by Pliny Earle Goddard

Again he was abnormally voluble, as if holding his cousin at arm's length by italicising his own fanatical fervour, till Roy's impatience subsided into weariness and he palpably stifled a yawn.
— from Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Maud Diver

But, oh! Reuben Butler, the kirk, of whilk, though unworthy, I have yet been thought a polished shaft, and meet to be a pillar, holding, from my youth upward, the place of ruling elder—what will the lightsome and profane think of the guide that cannot keep his own family from stumbling?
— from The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Walter Scott

These bubbles on bursting throw the boiling mud to a height of fifteen feet and upwards, accumulating it in ledges round the crater or basin of the spring.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Afterwards he became convinced that the woman wore the sun-bonnet to conceal the lines of sorrow in her once fine face.
— from Watch Yourself Go By by Al. G. (Alfred Griffith) Field

We have not had one fit for me to use, since the old bay fell lame three years ago.
— from Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

2 s. —— HISTORY OF FRANCE; from the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Second Empire, 1852.
— from At Home with the Patagonians A Year's Wanderings over Untrodden Ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro by George C. Musters