The fore-part of his thighs, where the folds of his mantle permitted them to be seen, were also covered with linked mail; the knees and feet were defended by splints, or thin plates of steel, ingeniously jointed upon each other; and mail hose, reaching from the ankle to the knee, effectually protected the legs, and completed the rider's defensive armour.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Those young men had not a notion of French, and could speak on no subject with striking knowledge, except perhaps the dyeing and carrying trades, which of course they were ashamed to mention; they were Middlemarch gentry, elated with their silver-headed whips and satin stocks, but embarrassed in their manners, and timidly jocose: even Fred was above them, having at least the accent and manner of a university man.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

"Ho, kara frato," ŝi ekkriis, kun eksalteto pro timo, "tiu ponto ja estas danĝera!
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Dinner being over, we took our leave of the right reverend Homenas, and of all the good people, humbly giving thanks; and, to make them amends for their kind entertainment, promised them that, at our coming to Rome, we would make our applications so effectually to the pope that he would speedily be sure to come to visit them in person.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

At Kreutzburg, East Prussia, they call out to the woman who is binding the last sheaf, “The Goat is sitting in the sheaf.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

When we know every Person that is spoken of is represented by one who has no ill Will, and every thing that is mentioned described by one that is apt to set it in the best Light, the Entertainment must be delicate; because the Cook has nothing brought to his Hand but what is the most excellent in its Kind.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

epilegousi de dê kai tin' epê tribontes en metrô te tini kai melei kai rhythmô kai esti panta ta rhêmata tauta parakeleusis tê kystei pros tên auxêsin.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

all' ei tên men archên tês anadoseôs hê tês koilias enthlipsis parechetai, tên de meta tauta phoran hapasan hai te phlebes peristellomenai kai proôthousai kai tôn trephomenôn hekaston epispômenon eis heauto, tês pros to kenoumenon akolouthias apostantes, hôs ou prepousês andri technikên hypothemenô tên physin, houtôs an êdê kai tên antilogian eiêmen pepheugotes tên Asklêpiadou mê dynamenoi ge lyein autên.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

[Greek: homôs de kai en toutois dialampei to kalon, epeidan pherê tis eukolôs pollas kai megalas atychias, mê di analgêsian, alla gennadas ôn kai megalopsychos.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

And if, as she was beginning to believe, Mr. Schulz were acting hand in glove with Mr. Jeekes, she would let him know equally plainly that she had no intention of troubling him, but would make her own investigations independently.
— from The Yellow Streak by Valentine Williams

"For," said Tom, "while we have no use for the gun, I've agreed to deliver it to its owner whenever he chooses to call for it at my mother's house, and I tell you, boys, a man's first obligation in this world is to keep every promise that he makes no matter what it costs.
— from Camp Venture: A Story of the Virginia Mountains by George Cary Eggleston

When night had ended and daylight began to appear, a crowd of our people raced through the city, killing every pagan they found.
— from The Deeds of God Through the Franks by Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy Guibert

Next [71] morning, after passing a cold and miserable night in the tiny cabin of the dirty little sampan, I started with gun and dog at about eight o'clock—fully expecting that the house-boat would turn up during my absence—and shot all day, killing eleven pheasants, two deer, three woodcock, seven duck and one pigeon.
— from Life and sport in China Second Edition by Oliver George Ready

On the contrary the states which are ruled over by one king enjoy peace, thrive in justice and are gladdened by affluence.
— from Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado by Various

“There they are—­three—­four of them,” Paula whispered, as her keen eyes picked the squirrels out amongst the young grain.
— from The Little Lady of the Big House by Jack London

[162] The family of Kestner eventually published the correspondence of Goethe with their parents.—A. Kestner, Goethe und Werther, Briefe Goethes, meistens aus seiner Jugendheit, mit erläuternden Documenten (Stuttgart und Tübingen, 1854).
— from The Youth of Goethe by Peter Hume Brown

Public interest in his work was keen; even Peter the Great, who was then in Paris, visited his workroom.
— from The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe by Dorothy Stimson