In a few minutes after rode forth furiously from the gateways of the castle seven knights, all brothers, and crying out, “Knight, keep thee,” bore down all at once upon Sir Galahad.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

I set one man about preparing a saffold and collecting wood to dry the meat Sent the others to bring in the ballance of the buffaloe meat, or at least the part which the wolves had left us, for those fellows are ever at hand and ready to partake with us the moment we kill a buffaloe; and there is no means of puting the meat out of their reach in those plains; the two men shortly after returned with the meat and informed me that the wolves had devoured the greater part of the meat. about ten OClock this morning while the men were engaged with the meat I took my Gun and espontoon and thought I would walk a few miles and see where the rappids termineated above, and return to dinner.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

How can there be any human understanding that can persuade itself there ever was all that infinity of Amadises in the world, or all that multitude of famous knights, all those emperors of Trebizond, all those Felixmartes of Hircania, all those palfreys, and damsels-errant, and serpents, and monsters, and giants, and marvellous adventures, and enchantments of every kind, and battles, and prodigious encounters, splendid costumes, love-sick princesses, squires made counts, droll dwarfs, love letters, billings and cooings, swashbuckler women, and, in a word, all that nonsense the books of chivalry contain?
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

[clxxiv] Kasih Sa-Kampong (bacha’an betina) Sirih si asi-asi, Letak menyila-nyila, Menurunkan Si Raja Kasih, Menetapkan Si Raja Gila, Sila ginjang, gila serbaya, Gila sa-kampong, kampong raya, Gila sa-’laman, ’laman raya, Gila mabok hati jantong Sakalian yang bernyawa Tundok khadmat kapada aku, Berkat aku memakei doʿa Nabi Allah Suleiman!
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Of Liquorice; the best that is grows in England : it is hot and moist in temperature, helps the roughness of the windpipe, hoarsness, diseases in the kidneys and bladder, and ulcers in the bladder, it concocts raw humours in the stomach, helps difficulty of breathing, is profitable for all salt humours, the root dried and beaten into powder, and the powder put into the eye, is a special remedy for a pin and web.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

These vestments king Herod kept in that place; and after his death they were under the power of the Romans, until the time of Tiberius Cæsar; under whose reign Vitellius, the president of Syria, when he once came to Jerusalem, and had been most magnificently received by the multitude, he had a mind to make them some requital for the kindness they had shewn him; so, upon their petition to have those holy vestments in their own power, he wrote about them to Tiberius Cæsar, who granted his request: and this their power over the sacerdotal vestments continued with the Jews till the death of king Agrippa; but after that, Cassius Longinus, who was president of Syria, and Cuspius Fadus, who was procurator of Judea, enjoined the Jews to reposit those vestments in the tower of Antonia, for that they ought to have them in their power, as they formerly had.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

bondadoso kindly, kind, amiable, benignant; adv.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

There is very little to hold the boy who has never known anything but a home in a tenement.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

So that once, when he had been kicked and buffeted about, and had borne it all patiently, and some one expressed his surprise, he said, “Suppose an ass had kicked me, would you have had me bring an action against him?”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Best keep a bullet always in your guns, gentlemen, out here, for you never know what’s going to turn up next.”
— from Rob Harlow's Adventures: A Story of the Grand Chaco by George Manville Fenn

Thousands of hearts will feel a touch of grief at the news of his death; for few men have so large a wealth in the blessings of the poor, and the grateful remembrance of kindness and benevolence, as he.'
— from The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

As a baby of three, when he first tasted the liberty of going out of garden bounds daily into the daisy field beyond the wild walk, while Richard clung to his protecting baby sunbonnet, Ian spurned head covering of any kind, and blinked away at the sun through his tangled curls whenever he had the chance, in primitive directness until his cheeks glowed like burnished copper; and his present compromise is a little cap worn visor backward.
— from People of the Whirlpool From The Experience Book of a Commuter's Wife by Mabel Osgood Wright

What is the importance of the right of keeping and bearing arms?
— from The Short Constitution by William F. (William Fletcher) Russell

Heavy, long-bladed knives, as big as the "Sword of Bunker Hill," were used to scrape down the rough body coats of paint, and a smooth surface, on which to stamp the geometrical figures in colors, was fetched after long and laborious polishing with bricks and pumice stone.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 by Various

So she whispered to Lucy, and Lucy, who always did what she was asked to do, went up quietly to her uncle's knee, and, blushing all over her neck while she fingered her necklace, said, "Will you please play us a tune, uncle?"
— from Tom and Maggie Tulliver by George Eliot

If our restraining hand is removed, we shall have Scindia, and Holkar, the Peishwa, the Rajahs of Berar, Kolapoore, and Bhurtpoor at each other's throats again.
— from At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The Indian cut a small woody knob as big as a filbert from the trunk of a fir, apparently an old balsam vesicle filled with wood, which he said was good medicine.
— from Canoeing in the wilderness by Henry David Thoreau

Tho’ thy life work may be humble, Keep a brave and trusting heart; Do it well, it is thy portion, God himself assigned the part.
— from Home Poems by Kate Louise Wheeler