The keeper of the toll-gate said he rode at a hard gallop through the gate; and my shoe was picked up among the stones, so that the case was quite plain to them, and I was cleared of all blame.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

He was a witty, intelligent, well-read man, rivalling Captain Jim himself in the knack of telling a good story.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The daughter of Wallia, king of the Visigoths, was the mother of Ricimer; but he was descended, on the father's side, from the nation of the Suevi; 26 his pride or patriotism might be exasperated by the misfortunes of his countrymen; and he obeyed, with reluctance, an emperor in whose elevation he had not been consulted.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Then Achilles went inside his tent and opened the lid of the strong chest which silver-footed Thetis had given him to take on board ship, and which she had filled with shirts, cloaks to keep out the cold, and good thick rugs.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Jessomme the Interpreter let me have a piece of a lodge and the Squars pitched or Stretched it over Some Sticks, under this piece of leather I Slept dry, it is the only covering which I have had Suffecient to keep off the rain
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

" An elderly emir present, fired with the desire to possess a young and lovely wife and to rule over a great kingdom, offered to try the magic arts with which he was acquainted.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Kindly observe that the conception of suppression has nothing to do with sexuality.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

" The sire of gods and men assented, but he shed a rain of blood upon the earth in honour of his son whom Patroclus was about to kill on the rich plain of Troy far from his home.
— from The Iliad by Homer

And in another isle be folk that be both man and woman, and they have kind; of that one and of that other.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

"But they who look beneath the outer shell That wraps the 'kernel of the people's lore,' Hold THAT for superstition; and they tell That seven lovely sisters dwelt of yore In this old city, where it so befell That one a Poet loved; that, furthermore, As stars above us she was pure and good, And fairest of that beauteous sisterhood.
— from Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow

dw100section If the student require more precise knowledge of the nature of a fibrous material than that afforded by a determination of the cellulose, the following method of analysis will prove of service.
— from A Text-book of Paper-making by C. F. (Charles Frederick) Cross

He did not know one tune from another, except as it might be associated with some particular Psalm or Hymn, and his voice, both powerful and flexible in speaking, had in singing only two unvarying tones.
— from Allison Bain; Or, By a Way She Knew Not by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

The credit is due to Sethe of having attributed their ordinary names to several of the kings of the Ist dynasty with Horus names only which were found by Amélineau, and these identifications have been accepted by all Egyptologists.
— from History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

"Do you deny all knowledge of these too?" said the Queen, suddenly producing a second packet of manuscript from under her dress, and thrusting it in the Marquis's face.
— from My Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Wilkie Collins

"Still, one can rarely err by keeping on the safe side.
— from Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell

There were many forms of false worship in ancient times, when the knowledge of the one true God was preserved by the people of Israel alone.
— from Harper's Young People, May 24, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Comparisons are odious, and it is obviously without any desire to detract from the laudable performances of others in the accomplishment of this, "one of the most extraordinary feats in modern history," that reference of a special character is here made to the singularly high state of efficiency obtaining on the great British railway companies, which alone rendered possible so remarkable an achievement as that of marshalling at a moment's notice, and dispatching, the many trains necessary for the conveyance to the different ports of embarkation within the United Kingdom of the four Divisions of all arms and one of Cavalry of which the original British Expeditionary Force was composed.
— from Deeds of a Great Railway A record of the enterprise and achievements of the London and North-Western Railway company during the Great War by G. R. S. Darroch