“The kris is symbolical of the violent entry, which in this case is dispensed with.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

She was kept in strict order by her husband and his sister, and, like many weak persons, was all the better and happier for feeling a strong hand over her.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

I must know it sooner or later; and what purpose can be gained by trifling with the matter for a few minutes, when half the time would put me in possession of all that has occurred?
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

For example, to represent God as false or immoral, or, according to Plato, as deluding men with appearances or as the author of evil; or again, to affirm with Protagoras that 'knowledge is sensation,' or that 'being is becoming,' or with Thrasymachus 'that might is right,' would have been regarded by Plato as a lie of this hateful sort.
— from The Republic by Plato

I said, ‘Perhaps you would have been killed if some one had not been praying for you.’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

As by your high imperial Majesty I had in charge at my depart for France, As procurator to your Excellence, To marry Princess Margaret for your Grace; So, in the famous ancient city Tours, In presence of the Kings of France and Sicil, The Dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretagne, and Alencon, Seven earls, twelve barons, and twenty reverend bishops, I have perform'd my task, and was espous'd; And humbly now upon my bended knee, In sight of England and her lordly peers, Deliver up my title in the Queen To your most gracious hands, that are the substance Of that great shadow I did represent: The happiest gift that ever marquis gave, The fairest queen that ever king receiv'd.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

While I was on the beach, the average number was about forty, and probably an equal, or greater number are drowned, or killed in some other way, every year.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Of Asia the greater part was explored by Dareios, who desiring to know of the river Indus, which is a second river producing crocodiles of all the rivers in the world,—to know, I say, of this river where it runs out into the sea, sent with ships, besides others whom he trusted to speak the truth, Skylax also, a man of Caryanda.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

The first time he put this over his door, all the neighbours laughed at him, knowing (in spite of the book he had got full of figures and shapes and crossings, which he called "Three-gun-ometry") that his education was scarcely up to the rule of three, without any guns.
— from The Maid of Sker by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

For the people with a keen innate sense of moral beauty there is no need of any other motive.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Thomas Henry Huxley

A sickening dread entered his soul,—the fear that his mate had been caught in a trap, shot by some rider or killed in some other way by man.
— from The Yellow Horde by Hal G. (Hal George) Evarts

Captain Leach, you may remember, was killed in spite of all the precautions he may have taken to preserve his life."
— from The Rose of Paradise Being a detailed account of certain adventures that happened to captain John Mackra, in connection with the famous pirate, Edward England, in the year 1720, off the Island of Juanna in the Mozambique Channel; writ by himself, and now for the first time published by Howard Pyle

Soon after my audience with the King I set off to discharge my duties in the department of the Yonne, and I obtained the honour of being elected to represent my countrymen in the Chamber of Deputies.
— from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 15 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne