How damosel Bragwaine found Tristram sleeping by a well, and how she delivered letters to him from La Beale Isoud.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

The fact that it was printed at the end of Mirabeau's Histoire Secrète de la Cour de Berlin and that a further edition revised by Mirabeau was published in 1792 no doubt gave rise to this supposition.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

In order that his crew should not hear the song of the Sirens, Odysseus had filled their ears with melted wax; but the hero himself so dearly loved adventure that he could not resist the temptation of braving this new danger.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Reaching the chair, he sat down, looking suspiciously at Razumihin.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Take A18 , A25 , N , P , TC , W 21 To trie &c. 1633 , D , H49 , S (dost long): And to trie &c. 1635-69 , A18 , A25 , L74 , N , O'F , S96 (longest), TC meates, 1635-69: meates.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

'I hope so, dearest Lizzie,' said Eugene, wistfully, and yet somewhat whimsically.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

We have sung, danced, laugh and played.
— from English as she is spoke; or, a jest in sober earnest by Pedro Carolino

I said to myself, that I had so divided labor, that writing, that is to say, intellectual labor, is my special employment, and the other matters which were necessary to me I had left free (or relegated, rather) to others.
— from On the Significance of Science and Art by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It was not one of those which had so disgracefully left the field a few moments before—it was Carlo, Johnny's favorite hound—an animal whose strength had been tested in many a desperate encounter, and which had never been found wanting in courage.
— from Frank among the Rancheros by Harry Castlemon

We were visited here only by a few English, in the company of a noble Genoese; commissioned to see we did not touch one another.—I shall stay here some days longer, and could almost wish it were for all my life; but mine, I fear, is not destined to so much tranquillity.
— from Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe by Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady

Her husband was free, and with a happy smile Dolly leaned back in her chair and scanned the lines as well as weakness would let her.
— from Mortomley's Estate: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Riddell, J. H., Mrs.

From thence he proceeded to la Maison Memblee de la Providence, No. 16, Rue d'Orleans Honore, section de la Halle au Bled, whence, after staying about five-and-twenty minutes, he came out with a citoyenne, who had on a puce Levite, a great bordered shawl of Japan cotton, and on her head a white handkerchief, made to look like a cap.
— from A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part III., 1794 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners by Charlotte Biggs

On this he still dwells lingeringly.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Ephesians by George G. (George Gillanders) Findlay