Well was he armed from head to heel, In mail and plate of Milan steel; But his strong helm, of mighty cost, Was all with burnished gold embossed; Amid the plumage of the crest, A falcon hovered on her nest, With wings outspread, and forward breast: E’en such a falcon,
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

[14] On September 8, 1909, about a year after this testimony was given, Mr. ——, our seer-witness, at his own home near Grange, told to me again the same essential facts concerning his psychical experiences as during my first interview with him, and even repeated word for word the expressions the ‘gentry’ used in communicating with him.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

The prefect of the pretorian guards, high and important as his office had now become, was not allowed to enter the senate-house, unless he belonged to the equestrian order.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

[“How often have not only our leaders, but whole armies, run to a certain and manifest death.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

He appealed to me to testify whether he had, or had not, carried that object out.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

He must have lost his head, or he never would have left the stick or, above all, burned the cheque-book.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The latter, who was a very loyal gentleman, began with the gravest reproofs to rebuke so fond a passion and to repel the princess, who would fain have cast herself on his neck, avouching to her with oaths that he had liefer be torn limb from limb than consent unto such an offence against his lord's honour, whether in himself or in another.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

he besought him, bAlinking and again passing his open hand over his nose.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It looks like rain," said her mother, observing that she had on her new bonnet, but not alluding to the fact.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Nature has given him a kind and charitable heart, which even his opinions have not succeeded in spoiling.'
— from Venetia by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The work had all been trusted to Davidson, while he, often, had never even seen it.
— from The Claim Jumpers: A Romance by Stewart Edward White

When the time came that "Jehovah would take up Elijah by a whirlwind into heaven," the prophet had a prevision of his approaching end, and determined for the last time to visit the hills of his native Gilead.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Kings by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

He wishes to enumerate the Katuns or periods of time from the beginning of the history of his nation to the arrival of the Spanish conquerors.
— from Mexican Copper Tools: The Use of Copper by the Mexicans Before the Conquest; and the Katunes of Maya History, a Chapter in the Early History of Central America, With Special Reference to the Pio Perez Manuscript. by Philipp J. J. (Philipp Johann Josef) Valentini

Dominica had, without exaggeration, the value of a dozen or two pairs of patent-leather boots hung on her neck, arms, fingers, ears, and bosom, in the shape of furious-sized pieces of gold jewelry; and it was solid gold.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Hamilcar, who saw his heroic labours of seven years undone by the fault of others, magnanimously submitted to what was inevitable without on that account sacrificing either his military honour, or his nation, or his own designs.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

* * * * * The taboos are, to see the beloved unveiled, to utter his or her name, to touch her with a metal ‘terrible to ghosts and spirits,’ or to do some action which will revive the associations of a former life.
— from Custom and Myth by Andrew Lang

There was something about his origin he never cared to dwell upon.
— from Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Volume 1 (of 2) by William Henry Herndon

One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has a character.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

The "Margaretta" had then been in port for more than a week, and her officers had no reason to doubt the loyalty and friendship of the inhabitants: no whisper of the occurrences in Massachusetts, nor any hint of the purposes of the people of Machias, had reached their ears.
— from The Naval History of the United States. Volume 1 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot