When the king was horsed he thanked heartily Sir Tristram, and desired to wit his name; but he would not tell him, but that he was a poor knight adventurous; and so he bare King Arthur fellowship till he met with some of his knights.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

then were they afeard when they saw a knight, and fled.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

The American loss was only five killed and forty-one wounded, which may not include the Indian contingent.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

When it was imposed, the visit of that prince, afterwards the Duke of Kent and father of the reigning Queen, to Upper Canada, was a recent event.—The French ruins spoken of are the ruins of Fort Ste Marie near the mouth of the river Wye—the chief mission-house of the Jesuits, abandoned in 1649, still visible.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Drinking-tents were full, glasses began to clink in carriages, hampers to be unpacked, tempting provisions to be set forth, knives and forks to rattle, champagne corks to fly, eyes to brighten that were not dull before, and pickpockets to count their gains during the last heat.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Or had he heard the heavenly harmony Which that sweet tongue hath made, He would have dropp'd his knife, and fell asleep, As Cerberus at the Thracian poet's feet.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I was human, and she, dear lady, knew and felt me to be so.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

But this time she declined my proffered aid in so kind and friendly a manner that I almost forgave her.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

For instance, they are always ready to stone, or even kill, a few defenceless individuals, but if they have to fear any opposition, they are sure not to commence the attack.
— from A Woman's Journey Round the World From Vienna to Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia and Asia Minor by Ida Pfeiffer

And Rodney, who at best was but a poltroon, [pg 088] could only repeat: "You got to keep away from here.
— from Judith of the Plains by Marie Manning

The tone of kindness and familiarity in which the Emperor spoke to me on this occasion recalls another circumstance which I neglected to relate in its proper place, and which I must not pass over in silence, since it furnishes such a fine example of his Majesty's conduct towards the persons of his service, and especially myself.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete by Louis Constant Wairy

Keep a few for your own use.”
— from Marjorie Dean Macy's Hamilton Colony by Josephine Chase

"Now stand back and keep away from me, for I'm afraid I'll kill you!" "What have I done?" cringed Bart, shielding his face with his elbow as if to ward off a blow.
— from The Tides of Barnegat by Francis Hopkinson Smith

He took the Yale key and fitted it into the door; it would not move; he tugged, pulled it out, forced it in again, and pushed it.
— from The Gods and Mr. Perrin: A Tragi-Comedy by Hugh Walpole

His secret correspondence was intercepted and made known a few weeks after his departure for that terrible
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1574-84) by John Lothrop Motley

MIRA. Have a care of such apologies, Witwoud; for I never knew a fool but he affected to complain either of the spleen or his memory.
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

Improvements in false teeth and in making the deaf hear are in order; but it is just as well to keep away from inventions to make the hair grow and to remove freckles.
— from Inventing for Boys by A. Frederick (Archie Frederick) Collins