We again offer your Highness our warmest felicitations for the honour that has been conferred on you.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Then he cried, but could not hear his own words, "Flounder, flounder in the sea, Come, I pray thee, here to me; For my wife, good Ilsabil, Wills not as I'd have her will."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

she said, as the thought of her own wrecked future fell upon her dark and heavy.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

XXV. Blount and Fitz-Eustace rested still With Lady Clare upon the hill; On which, for far the day was spent, The western sunbeams now were bent.
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

His tongue was entire; both his eyes were in their places, and were clear-sighted; his broken legs and every other wound were healed, or were free from pain; and, in short, he had got perfect health.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

In order to correct the error of both sorts, he often went forth from the monastery, sometimes on horseback, but oftener on foot, and went to the neighbouring townships, where he preached the way of truth to such as had gone astray; which Boisil also in his time had been wont to do.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many, and his oddities were freely forgiven for his sake.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

[Pg 204] Moya tried; but it was terrible; he shrieked with agony, foaming at the mouth, and beating her off with feeble fists.
— from The Shadow of a Man by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

Cabal, or Kabbalah: A theosophieal or mystic speculative system, of Hebrew origin, which flourished from the tenth to the sixteenth century.
— from An Epitome of the History of Medicine by Roswell Park

I recognised much of the furniture from the attics above, and this, faded though it was, being helped out with flowers, flags, and greenery, made the great echoing rooms look gay and habitable.
— from Monsieur Maurice by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards

Stately tall large oaks, and other timber; red cedar, cypress, pines, and other evergreens and sweet woods, for tallness and largeness, exceeding all they had ever heard of; wild fowl, fish, deer, and other game in such plenty and variety, that no epicure could desire more than this new world did seem naturally to afford.
— from The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley

Four little hands overbrimming with flowers, Four little feet tripping through the blithe hours; Two little maidens, so happy and bright, Busy all day, and so tired at night.
— from Harper's Young People, June 15, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

He can form a definite policy, select his own Ministry to carry it out, and to some extent have his own way for four years, whether the people like it or not.
— from The Evolution of an Empire: A Brief Historical Sketch of England by Mary Platt Parmele

A captain of cavalry in a French regiment mentions that a horse belonging to his company, being from age unable to eat his hay or grind his oats, was fed for two months by two horses on his right and left, who ate with him.
— from A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals by Percy J. Billinghurst

Every man was pulling for Springfield in his own way, from five to fifty in a bunch, the bunches from one to three hundred yards
— from Recollections of a Pioneer by J. W. (J. Watt) Gibson

Otto was still menaced by conspiracies in Germany; and Berengar might serve to guard Italy against ambitious Dukes, until the hands of his overlord were free for Italian adventures.
— from Medieval Europe by H. W. Carless (Henry William Carless) Davis