By this Means I am furnished with the greatest Variety of Hints and Materials, and know every thing that passes in the different Quarters and Divisions, not only of this great City, but of the whole Kingdom.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

And when by fortune was all overthrown The Trojans’ pride, inordinate before— Monarch and kingdom equally undone— Hecuba, [761] sad and captive, mourning o’er Polyxena, when dolorous she beheld
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Oral and Conversational Method; being Little Lessons introducing the most Useful Topics of Daily Conversation, upon an entirely new principle, &c. By F. Julien , French Master at King Edward the Sixth’s Grammar School, Birmingham.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

As it was, they got into quarters, and bivouacked in the villages that night, while the Carduchians kept many watch-fires blazing in a circle on the mountains, and kept each other in sight all round.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

Just then Sir Balan came out and saw him, and when he looked on Balin's shield, which had two crossed swords, he recognised his brother's device, and ran to him, and they met and kissed each other, and that night they were happy together, for it had been long since that they had parted; and each told the other his adventures.
— from King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls by Henry Gilbert

The Teton retaliated the blow given to the trader, not only at the immediate risk of his life in the combat, but of having to expiate the deed to many a kindred exasperated warrior, and also at the hazard of originating a war between the two bands.
— from James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 1 by Thomas Say

The Duchess might have lacked talent, but she had not played in farces without learning how to behave in them: so without even needing a wink from her spouse, she made a kindly exit behind Polly, not, however, without turning back a grinning doll’s head at Mr. Flippance’s beaded countenance emerging gaspingly from his berth.
— from Jinny the Carrier by Israel Zangwill

The number of autograph collectors is astonishing, and many are kind enough to enclose an American stamp or a few cents for the reply postage.
— from The story of my struggles: the memoirs of Arminius Vambéry, Volume 2 by Ármin Vámbéry

Godfrey de Harcourt, the great Norman lord I have already mentioned, accompanied King Edward on this occasion.
— from Cressy and Poictiers: The Story of the Black Prince's Page by John G. (John George) Edgar

'His army, not only the military men but also the animals of war; his officials; his people, both townsmen and landsmen; those who have no protector; and both (classes of religious people) S rama n as and Brâhmans; all of them must a king endeavour to endow with such happiness as is conducive to their good, as if he were their father.
— from The Gâtakamâlâ; Or, Garland of Birth-Stories by Aryasura

If the black gins gave no satisfaction to the aesthetic sense of the naturalist, his white skin appeared to be no less displeasing to them; and one of them made a kindly effort to colour him to her fancy.
— from Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia by Scott, Ernest, Sir

While Crawford, who possessed a great deal of mechanical ingenuity, went in to assist Mrs Broderick, he hurried to the back of the house, where he found Mangaleesu and Kalinda employed in manufacturing Kaffir warriors.
— from Hendricks the Hunter; Or, The Border Farm: A Tale of Zululand by William Henry Giles Kingston

'In the following list I have given, as far as my memory and knowledge enabled me, a true and faithful account of the persons whom I have rescued from drowning.
— from The Hero of the Humber; Or, The History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe by Henry Woodcock