And accordingly Jack the Dullard was made a king, and received a crown and a wife, and sat upon a throne.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

CHAPTER IV King Arthur Conquers Ireland and Norway, Slays the Giant of St. Michael’s Mount, and Conquers Gaul — The Adventures of Sir Balin he land of Britain being now in peace, and many great and valiant knights therein ready to take part in whatsoever battles or adventures might arise, King Arthur resolved to follow all his enemies to their own coasts.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

She calls me a knave and rascal, but I take no notice of her.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The lady gave me as kind a reception as I had received from her husband.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Because one has forgotten his cedula he must be manacled and knocked about, regardless of the fact that he may be a decent and respectable citizen.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Come, give me a kiss, and run off to bed.'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Upon this I prepared to go on board the ship; but told the captain I would stay that night to prepare my things, and desired him to go on board in the meantime, and keep all right in the ship, and send the boat on shore next day for me; ordering him, at all events, to cause the new captain, who was killed, to be hanged at the yard-arm, that these men might see him.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Jest by the way of raw material, if you'll only confer on a Mexican a kettle, a rifle bar'l, a saddle cover, an' a pigskin full of sour pulque, he'll be conductin' a mescal still in full blast at the end of the first hour.
— from Wolfville Days by Alfred Henry Lewis

In this way many theological seminaries were endowed, and in this way prejudices, mistakes, absurdities, known as religious truths, have been perpetuated.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll

Upon this I prepared to go on board the ship, and desired him to go on board in the meantime, and keep all right in the ship; but told the captain I would stay that night to prepare my things, and told him to send the boat on shore next day for me; ordering him, at all events, to cause the new captain, who was killed, to be hanged at the yardarm, that these men might see him.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

He adds some very faint UPPER lines in Glen Spean (seen, by the way, by Agassiz), and has shown that Milne and Kemp are right in there being horizontal aqueous markings (NOT at coincident levels with those of Glen Roy) in other parts of Scotland at great heights, and he adds several other cases.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

He has maps, and knowledge always ready in his brain; and he speaks these islanders’ language better than they can themselves.
— from The King's Esquires; Or, The Jewel of France by George Manville Fenn

and I am made a knight, a rider, as the High Dutch have it, just when I have not a horse left to ride upon.”
— from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott

I made a killing all right.
— from The Rat Race by Jay Franklin

The professional thief is the 'mugged grafter'; his photograph and Bertillon measurements are known and recorded.
— from Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World by Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman) Wooldridge