But when I was copying the first rough draught of the same, and had arrived to the answer to the last of the objections, which he said prevented his becoming a member of the Roman Catholic church, viz: that the Roman Catholic church teaches, that it is wrong for the common people to possess or read the word of God but that they ought to learn from the popes and councils, I observed the writer brings a proof against the doctrine from the prophet Isaiah, viz: "To the law and to the testimony, if they speak not according to my word, it is because there is no light in them."
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

When they drew near to the audience chamber Cacambo asked one of the great officers in what way he should pay his obeisance to his Majesty; whether they should throw themselves upon their knees or on their stomachs; whether they should put their hands upon their heads or behind their backs; whether they should lick the dust off the floor; in a word, what was the ceremony?
— from Candide by Voltaire

Hilere , sb. protector, H; heyler , H. Hiling , sb. covering, 82, W, W2; hilynge , H. Him , pron.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

SYN: Fearful, direful, appalling, terrible, alarming, dreadful, horrible, solemn, portentous, horrific.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

`But that I nil not holden him in honde, Ne love a man, ne can I not, ne may Ayeins my wil; but elles wol I fonde, Myn honour sauf, plese him fro day to day; 480 Ther-to nolde I nought ones have seyd nay,
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

Jesus showed a particular affection for Mary Magdalen, to the point of exciting the jealousy of Martha, who complained that her sister passed her time in conversation with Jesus and left her with all the housework to do.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

So he left us; and when we offered him some pistolets, he smiling said, "He must not be twice paid for one labour:" meaning (as I take it) that he had salary sufficient of the State for his service.
— from New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

Tell me that you care for me," he said, pressing her to his breast.
— from The Brown Brethren by Patrick MacGill

Ted's hand still pained him from the porcupine's quills, and he felt tired and lazy.
— from Kalitan, Our Little Alaskan Cousin by Mary F. Nixon-Roulet

“My mother bade her servants pitch her tent close by the gate.
— from The Book of Fables and Folk Stories by Horace Elisha Scudder

The agony of his shyness paralysed his huge vocal muscles till speech became a labour quite impossible.
— from Pardners by Rex Beach

The cases, however, should play horizontally.
— from A System of Pyrotechny Comprehending the theory and practice, with the application of chemistry; designed for exhibition and for war. by James Cutbush

he said, putting his arm round her.
— from Lord Montagu's Page: An Historical Romance by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

The names of these destroyers, which Serlio has suppressed, posterity has been desirous of recovering, and some have accused Raffaello, others Pinturicchio, and others Vaga, or Giovanni da Udine, or rather his scholars and assistants, "of whom," says Vasari, "there were an infinite number in every part of Italy."
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Lanzi