[Eph. 6:16] {326} 2. It is good, also, that we desire of the King a convoy, yea, that he will go with us himself.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

It is easy to see that you took my servant for myself, for in the night, you know, all cats are grey, and I congratulate you on obtaining an enjoyment you certainly would not have had from me, as I should most surely have recognized you directly from your breath and your aged charms, and I can tell you it would have gone hard with you.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

kinis, kínis a clear and smooth on the surface.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I don't know any chevalier I like better, I have a very great regard for the Signor, truly.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

There King Alexander chased them between those mountains, and there he thought for to enclose them through work of his men.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

I have been correct in my behavior toward you for six years, and even kind and complaisant.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

When this had been completed to our mutual satisfaction, I again displayed all her attractions, and when by kisses and caresses and lascivious touches I had again roused her desires for a repetition of the encounter, I made the agreed-on signal to Frank.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

The translation of the Latin is: Concerning the legitimate and lawful use of the drink commonly known as café by Abdalcader Ben Mohammed al Ansâri.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

They were also known as Catharists (q.v.) and their doctrines were similar to those of several other religious sects such as the Gnostics, Manichæans, and Bogomils.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

[120] Richelieu assures us that Luynes showed Louis XIII forged letters purporting to have been written by Barbin, “full of designs against the person of the King,” and, considering the position occupied by Déageant, this appears very probable.
— from A Gallant of Lorraine; vol. 1 of 2 François, Seigneur de Bassompierre, Marquis d'Haronel, Maréchal de France, 1579-1646 by H. Noel (Hugh Noel) Williams

Chikosi, at whose village we passed a night, near Kalongosi, and Chiputa are both dead.
— from The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by David Livingstone

This action settled matters in the city, but subsequently I had to remove some officials in the parishes—among them a justice of the peace and a sheriff in the parish of Rapides; the justice for refusing to permit negro witnesses to testify in a certain murder case, and for allowing the murderer, who had foully killed a colored man, to walk out of his court on bail in the insignificant sum of five hundred dollars; and the sheriff, for conniving at the escape from jail of another alleged murderer.
— from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete by Philip Henry Sheridan

"I know," Abe cried; "but we don't have to hire no loft what we don't want to, Mawruss.
— from Potash & Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures by Montague Glass

He gave out secretly, yet so that it might spread abroad, that his son-in-law had gone over to the Portuguese at Malacca with his knowledge and consent, and that the same thing was done by all those who seemed to fly there from Bintang, with the design to seize upon the fort on the first opportunity, and restore it to him who was the lawful prince.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

The origin of the evil lay in the character of the seamen, scarcely any of whom were American, but the offscourings and refuse of all the seaports of the world, such stuff as piracy is made of, together with a considerable intermixture of returning emigrants, and a sprinkling of absolutely kidnapped American citizens.
— from Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Another observer, of the same nationality, speaking of the unassailability of the English woman, attributes it to the insurmountable rampart which she had in the love for her family, the care of her household, and her natural gravity, and says that he does not know any city in the world where the honor of husbands is in less danger of deflection than in London.
— from Women of England by Bartlett Burleigh James

Herne keeps a Chinaman to do that in the week day.
— from A California Girl by Edward Eldridge

It was so stormy at the time that he could not give a written translation of the articles, and they could scarcely keep a candle lighted to read them by, so that it became necessary to rely upon the interpreter's word.
— from History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell