Sit still, and you shall know what driving really is, for you are in the hands Page 282 [Pg 282] of the famous, the skilful, the entirely fearless Toad!"
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

If from yon jostling rocks and wavy war Jove safety grants, he grants it to your care.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

when Millions of fierce encountering Angels fought On either side, the least of whom could wield These elements, and arm him with the force Of all their regions: How much more of power Army against army numberless to raise Dreadful combustion warring, and disturb, Though not destroy, their happy native seat; Had not the Eternal King Omnipotent, From his strong hold of Heaven, high over-ruled And limited their might; though numbered such As each divided legion might have seemed A numerous host; in strength each armed hand A legion; led in fight, yet leader seemed Each warriour single as in chief, expert When to advance, or stand, or turn the sway Of battle, open when, and when to close The ridges of grim war: No thought of flight, None of retreat, no unbecoming deed That argued fear; each on himself relied, As only in his arm the moment lay Of victory: Deeds of eternal fame Were done, but infinite; for wide was spread That war and various; sometimes on firm ground A standing fight, then, soaring on main wing, Tormented all the air; all air seemed then Conflicting fire.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

However, you have, by joining your labor with ours, gotten great plenty of riches, and will carry home with you much prey, with gold and silver, and, what is more than all these, our good-will towards you, and a mind willingly disposed to make a requital of your kindness to us, in what case soever you shall desire it, for you have not omitted any thing which Moses beforehand required of you, nor have you despised him because he was dead and gone from you, so that there is nothing to diminish that gratitude which we owe to you.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

I finish your phrase.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

"She took the law of every one of her tradesmen; and turned away forty-eight footmen in four year.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

I would not give you a penny,' she said, smiling; 'don't think there's any of it for you.'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

I fancy you and I are the only people to whom his looks and manners have explained themselves.”
— from Emma by Jane Austen

They were decimated by war, driven up from their coastline till finally the reduced population, with many of the men killed in battle, occupied this hinterland, and defended it for years, in the mountain passes.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is forbidden you to transport the body of the deceased a greater distance than one hour’s journey from the city #130 The intention of this command is to limit the duration of the journey to one hour’s time, irrespective of the means of transport that are chosen to carry the body to the burial site.
— from The Kitáb-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh

I find you together.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

What care I for your 'chance?'
— from The Mystery of Orcival by Emile Gaboriau

Meanwhile, seeing his duties coming to an end without much hope of further employment, he wrote the following letter to the Adjutant-General of the United States Army at Washington: "Sir: "Having served for fifteen years in the regular army, including four years at West Point, and feeling it the duty of every one who has been educated at the Government expense to offer their services for the support of that Government, I have the honor, very respectfully, to tender my services until the close of the war in such capacity as may be offered.
— from On the Trail of Grant and Lee by Frederick Trevor Hill

But he is quite disinterested—it is for your sake only that he speaks—as is evident, since he is starting in an hour—” At Cosne a little crowd gathered round the old repainted chaise, with the arms on the panels granted by Louis XIV.
— from Parisians in the Country by Honoré de Balzac

It was Henry of Trastamara, who now faced his brother for the first time in fifteen years.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 07 (of 15), Spanish by Charles Morris

He had not heard of Mellish during the intervening forty years!
— from Studies in Contemporary Biography by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

990 Quoth he, This scheme of th' heavens set, Discovers how in fight you met At Kingston with a may-pole idol, And that y' were bang'd both back and side well; And though you overcame the bear, 995
— from Hudibras, in Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars by Samuel Butler

'You may intercede for your husband only; for your sake, he shall remain where he is; but let the other prisoners take care of themselves.'
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe