How, after this, and great kindness pretended, he made rude offers to me in the garden, which I escaped.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

but offered no gifts of wooing, for he promised a great thing, to wit, that he would drive the sons of the Achaeans willy nilly from Troy; old King Priam had given his consent and promised her to him, whereon he fought on the strength of the promises thus made to him.
— from The Iliad by Homer

“The servant of God, Konstantin, plights his troth to the servant of God, Ekaterina.”
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

‘Well, Miss Nickleby, child,’ said Madame Mantalini, when Kate presented herself; ‘are you quite well again?’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Mau nay ámung muskit káda pyista, He is our cook every fiesta.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

So he replied without hesitation: "I do not know, Princess, how to express my gratitude for your obliging offer, which I would accept at once if it were not for the recollection of all the uneasiness the King my father must be suffering on my account.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

10 [Greek: Katthane kai Patroklos, hoper seo pollon ameinôn]—Even Patroclus is dead, who was much better than thou.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The chiefs surround the destined beast, and take The sacred off’ring of the salted cake: When thus the King prefers his solemn pray’r.”
— from The History of Salt With Observations on the Geographical Distribution, Geological Formation, and Medicinal and Dietetic Properties by Evan Martlett Boddy

Prince Karl put his men in winter-quarters, in those Passau regions; postponing the explosion of the Broglio-Seckendorf projects, till Spring; and returned to Vienna for the Winter gayeties and businesses there.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 by Thomas Carlyle

"I wish to do every thing in order," replied his lordship, "and I know Ponsonby has serious intentions, which gave me some alarm.
— from The Manoeuvring Mother (vol. 3 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

He could tell little about himself or how he had come in that position; and kind people had taken him in and later on had placed him in the local poorhouse.
— from Dave Porter and His Double; Or, The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune by Edward Stratemeyer

The supplicating accents of the gray-haired minister ceased, and he arose from his kneeling posture, his eyes streaming with tears, and clasping in both of his the thin white hand that rested upon the snowy counterpane, leaned gently over, and placed his lips close to the ear of the dying woman.
— from Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 by Various

M. Janet remarks, in his article on Realism and Idealism , that since Kant philosophy has concentrated all its efforts on the problem of the objectivity of knowledge.
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

Isaac ben Abraham Troki (1533–1594), Karaite, publishes his “ Chisuk Emunah .” Clement VIII expels the Jews from all the Papal States except Rome and Ancona.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 6 (of 6) Containing a Memoir of the Author by Dr. Philip Bloch, a Chronological Table of Jewish History, an Index to the Whole Work by Heinrich Graetz

The same kind Phil had, and which stiffened my hand!
— from A Quarter-Back's Pluck: A Story of College Football by Lester Chadwick

Consequently, to while away the time, Bill Kilduff produced his mouth organ and commenced a dolorous ballad.
— from The Untamed by Max Brand