It was the Persians who thus prepared this approach to Egypt, furnishing it with water in the manner which has been said, from the time when they first took possession of Egypt: but at the time of which I speak, seeing that water was not yet provided, Cambyses, in accordance with what he was told by his Halicarnassian guest, sent envoys to the Arabian king and from him asked and obtained the safe passage, having given him pledges of friendship and received them from him in return. 8.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

“How repulsive it is!” said Von Koren, and from his face it could be seen that he felt repulsion.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It is much more merciful to kill a few hundred people, as a lesson to the rest, and let the rest go, with the clear understanding that if they insurrect again you will promptly kill a few hundred more, than to permit a reign of terror from one month to another and from one year to another, with all the untilled fields, famine, pestilence, and other disease this involves, merely in order to be able to invoke the blessing of the Doctor Lyman Abbots of the world on a supposedly benign “civil” government.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

kupkup a for hair to be lying down flat close to the scalp.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

A certain falconer had caught A kite, and for his sovereign thought The bird a present rich and rare.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

Then she kissed and fondled her child.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

replied the curate.——A soldier, an’ please your reverence, said I, prays as 146 often (of his own accord) as a parson;——and when he is fighting for his king, and for his own life, and for his honour too, he has the most reason to pray to God of any one in the whole world——’Twas well said of thee, Trim, said my uncle Toby.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

But before we proceed any further in this purpose, I will tell you how Panurge handled his prisoner the King Anarchus; for, having remembered that which Epistemon had related, how the kings and rich men in this world were used in the Elysian fields, and how they got their living there by base and ignoble trades, he, therefore, one day apparelled his king in a pretty little canvas doublet, all jagged and pinked like the tippet of a light horseman’s cap, together with a pair of large mariner’s breeches, and stockings without shoes,—For, said he, they would but spoil his sight, —and a little peach-coloured bonnet with a great capon’s feather in it—I lie, for I think he had two—and a very handsome girdle of a sky-colour and green (in French called pers et vert), saying that such a livery did become him well, for that he had always been perverse, and in this plight bringing him before Pantagruel, said unto him, Do you know this roister?
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

His brother Augustus became famous as Adm. Keppel, and for his eminent services was created Visct.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

(31) When Isaiah beheld the august throne of God on this memorable day, (32) he was sorely affrighted, for he reproached himself with not having tried to turn the king away from his impious desire.
— from The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 by Louis Ginzberg

There were tears in her eyes at the thought that her boy could keep aloof from her in his troubles.
— from Paul the Courageous by Mabel Quiller-Couch

But I kept a firm holt of my principles, and didn't groan—not when anybody could hear me.
— from Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 2 by Marietta Holley

If the honest Colonel remarked his young friend's conduct, no doubt he attributed it to Harry's known affection for his brother, and his natural anxiety to be with George now the day of their parting was so near.
— from Boys and Girls from Thackeray by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

He carried with him the sacred ephod through which the will of Yahveh was made known, and from henceforth the influence of the priesthood was thrown against the king.
— from Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

Are these the blockades which are intended? Let the Emperor and King answer for himself.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

And thus a Utilitarian may reasonably desire, on Utilitarian principles, that some of his conclusions should be rejected by mankind generally; or even that the vulgar should keep aloof from his system as a whole, in so far as the inevitable indefiniteness and complexity of its calculations render it likely to lead to bad results in their hands.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

She has [240] had an awful hard siege; her pa so sick, and she obliged to keep away from him, and not being sure whether I knew more than a turnip about taking care of him—I wonder how she stood it.
— from Ruth Erskine's Crosses by Pansy