These owners of the two most appreciative throats in the neighbourhood, within the pale of respectability, were now sitting face to face over a three-legged circular table, having an iron rim to keep cups and pots from being accidentally elbowed off; they might have been said to resemble the setting sun and the full moon shining vis-à-vis across the globe.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

“Ah, this gentleman is a Hercules killing Cacus, a Perseus freeing Andromeda.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

So much was the poor girl pinched, kicked, cut and pecked to pieces, that the boys in the street knew her only by the name of “pecked,” a name derived from the scars and blotches on her neck, head and shoulders.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

That happened to me once—and the worst of it was, before I could get out again, the other White Knight came and put it on.
— from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

‘Krajiek could ‘a’ put it there, couldn’t he?’
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

the ham being kept clean and preserved from dust, by the ingenious expedient of making a hole in the loaf by pulling out a portion of the crumb, and stuffing it therein.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The said king chose at Paris a hundred fair, gallant, lusty, brisk young men, all resolute and bold adventurers in Cupid’s duels, together with a hundred comely, pretty, handsome, lovely and well-complexioned wenches of Picardy, all which he caused to be well entertained and highly fed for the space of eight days.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The king calleth a parlement.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (7 of 9) Henrie the Seauenth, Sonne to Edmund Earle of Richmond, Which Edmund was Brother by the Moothers Side to Henrie the Sixt by Raphael Holinshed

The preface is followed by an introduction, in which Priestley gives a rapid and confessedly imperfect survey of the state of knowledge concerning “air” prior to 1774.
— from Joseph Priestley by T. E. (Thomas Edward) Thorpe

[Pg 31] from the store and they made a coffin and lined it with the kerosene cans and put Antonia in; her feet were tied with a ribbon and the smallpox lumps showed through her white stockings.
— from A Tramp's Scraps by H. I. M. Self

414 Timur at, 327 , 355 , 435 otherwise mentioned, 261 , 275 , 277 , 419 , 428 , 434 , 507 Khawak river, 274 Khazar, 388 Khilkh (Kalat-i-Ghilzai), 206 Khilkhis. See Ghilzais Khiva (Khwarezm), 218 , 244 Khizilji Turks, 281 - 2 Khoes river, 99 - 100 Khoja Mahomed range, 424 , 436 , 437 , 506 , 507 Khojak range, 139 Khor Khalmat (Kalama), 158 Khorasan, 348 Khorienes, 93 Khotan (Ilchi): Balkh, distance from, 177 ; route to, 277 , 278 - 9 Buddhist centre, as, 172 , 174 Khozdar: Christie and Pottinger at, 331 Masson at, 373 Turan, capital of, 315 Khulm, 88 , 270 - 72 , 416 ; river, 84 Khur, 308 , 310 Khurd Kabul defile, 95 Khud Rud, 515 Khuzan (Ak Tepe), 245 - 6 Khwaja Amran (Kojak) range, 374 Khwaja Chist, 217 , 223 Khwaja Salar, 448 , 449 , 460 Khwarezm (Khiva), 218 , 244 Ki-pin (Kabul river basin), 176 Kie-sha.
— from The Gates of India: Being an Historical Narrative by Holdich, Thomas Hungerford, Sir

His rare letters told a grave and dignified gentleman's version of the story and spoke of it with kindly courtesy and pleasure in it.
— from His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett

John Macdonald, the bard of Keppoch, composed a pathetic lament for Montrose, "the manly, mighty lion," in which Neil "of woful Assynt" and his family are not spared; but he is not accused of betraying a friend ( Cumha Mhontroise in Mackenzie's Beauties of Gaelic Poetry , for a translation of which I am obliged to Mr. Alexander Nicolson, Advocate, of Edinburgh; according to the bard three fourths of the meal, which formed a part of the reward, were found to be sour).
— from Montrose by Mowbray Morris

Almost his only visitors were the clergymen of the two neighbouring parishes, each of which claimed Kellie Castle as part of its own.
— from A Widow's Tale, and Other Stories by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

It is only the other day that a King came and paraded the streets, with as many titles in front of him as the drums that made the town hideous by their din, . . .
— from The King of the Dark Chamber by Rabindranath Tagore

It was no wonder that the royal pair did not ratify a Protestant Confession, for during their brief reign over France they were the centre of a keen crusade against Protestantism, conducted far more by Mary's counsellors and uncles, the Guises, than by her feeble-minded husband.
— from John Knox by A. Taylor (Alexander Taylor) Innes