And on a certain day there came into the court a messenger from Ryence, King of North Wales, bearing this message from his master: That King Ryence had discomfited eleven kings, and had compelled each one of them to cut off his beard; that he had trimmed a mantle with these beards, and lacked but one more beard to finish it; and that he therefore now sent for King Arthur’s beard, which he required of him forthwith, or else he would enter his lands and burn and slay, and never leave them till he had taken by force not his beard only, but his head also.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

And side by side with them trots along some wretched fellow who has known better days, doing light porter’s work from morn to night for a living, always blubbering and saying that ‘his wife died because he had no money to buy medicine with,’ and his children dying of cold and hunger, and his eldest daughter gone to the bad, and so on.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Poor little Amelia blushed as she kissed her friend, and thought she had been guilty of something very like coldness towards her.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

She passed out from the porch of the library and bowed across Stephen in reply to Cranly’s greeting.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Within half an hour after the departure of old Joe, the form of that ancient personage was seen slowly wheeling round the locust-tree at the end of the lane, accompanied by a stout young man in primitive homespun apparel.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Musaceæ —Musa paradisiaca, M. sapientum 227 – 228 Zingiberaceæ —Zingiber officinale, Curcuma longa, Elettaria Cardamomum 228 – 231 Amaryllidaceæ —Crinum Asiaticum 231 – 232 Liliaceæ —Aloes Barbadensis, Allium sativum, A. Cepa 232 – 234 Palmæ —Areca Catechu, Cocos nucifera, Nipa fruticans
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

" Then, still holding the horse by the bridle rein, he put his fingers to his lips and blew a shrill whistle, whereupon fourscore yeomen came leaping over the stile and ran to where the Knight and Robin stood.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

H2 anchor And To Forgive, And Retain Sinnes The Power of Remission, And Retention Of Sinnes, called also the Power of Loosing, and Binding, and sometimes the Keyes Of The Kingdome Of Heaven, is a consequence of the Authority to Baptize, or refuse to Baptize.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

[1268] Agaberta, a famous witch in Lapland, would do as much publicly to all spectators, Modo Pusilla, modo anus, modo procera ut quercus, modo vacca, avis, coluber , &c. Now young, now old, high, low, like a cow, like a bird, a snake, and what not?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The second case is where the line of operations is very long, (as was the case with Napoleon at Borodino,) and particularly if this line affords but a single suitable route for retreat: then every flank movement exposing this line would be a great fault.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

exclaimed Lester, animated by a sudden impulse, and falling on his knees.
— from Eugene Aram — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

These disorders continued till the next day, but were at length appeased by a small distribution of flour from the magazine.
— from A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners by Charlotte Biggs

All our coolies dropped their loads and bolted as soon as the first shot was fired.
— from The Relief of Chitral by Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir

Let us look at Brighton as shown us by a contemporary publication
— from Florizel's Folly by John Ashton

In the Description of a Battle, for Instance, the Similes of a Lion, a Bull, a Serpent, an Eagle, and other Animals of the fiercer kind, recur too frequently under some small Variations.
— from Lectures on Poetry Read in the Schools of Natural Philosophy at Oxford by Joseph Trapp

To sit down on a march was to be leveled at by a score of arrows; to pursue the archers was to be lured into some hollow, where a fragment of the rock above or a felled tree, was ready to crush the legionaries.
— from Tarry thou till I come; or, Salathiel, the wandering Jew. by George Croly

Then the latter lowered a boat, and sent it, with a lieutenant and a midshipman in its stern-sheets, on board the brigantine.
— from Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef by James Fenimore Cooper

A heavy weight rested on their spirits, the atmosphere was leaden, as before a storm; and yet the blue of the heavens was undimmed, not a single cloud flecked the horizon, and the sun's rays flamed with the heat of midsummer.
— from Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch. Two Stories of Jewish Life by Ulrich Frank

For a single moment the difference between her position and that of Nina and Ann Eliza struck her like a blow, and she thought to herself: 'For them everything, for me nothing.'
— from Tracy Park: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes