"That we shall see presently," said Maritornes, and making a running knot on the halter, she passed it over his wrist and coming down from the hole tied the other end very firmly to the bolt of the door of the straw-loft.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Guy de Maupassant and Rudyard Kipling brought up the rear, and dazzled the world.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Muugtuk ang rilu kun dì yawíhan, The clock will stop if it is not wound.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

An officer, buttoning his glove, stood aside in the doorway, and stroking his mustache, admired rosy Kitty.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Wà mutúbù ang rúsas kay gihalúngan (gihalungan) sa dakung káhuy,
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Consequently, the brigade was considered to be on active service, and at the same time was being trained for war, a state of affairs which naturally tended to make all ranks keen to acquire military knowledge.
— from The Life of a Regimental Officer During the Great War, 1793-1815 by A. F. (Augustus Ferryman) Mockler-Ferryman

Beyond those square-headed bluffs and precipices, hidden amongst the serrated lines of jagged ridges, was the high-road to wealth and fame, where passed along not only many a rich khafila loaded with precious merchandise, but many a stout array of troops besides.
— from The Gates of India: Being an Historical Narrative by Holdich, Thomas Hungerford, Sir

495 It is said that Mwamba, a recent king or chief of the Wemba in Northern Rhodesia, having detected one of his wives in an intrigue with another man, caused the guilty pair to be burned alive, while he watched their tortures from a raised seat.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 08 of 12) by James George Frazer

His rough manner covered a wonderful tact—and as I came to recognize more and more, a remarkable knowledge of human nature.
— from The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope

In such case they were strengthened and multiplied, and rendered keener than ever, while the laity were scandalized at seeing the inefficiency of the Inquisition, baffled in its undertakings, and its most learned men played with and defied by rude and illiterate persons, for they believed the inquisitors to have all the proofs and arguments of the faith so ready at hand that no heretic could elude them or prevent their converting him.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

Being now daily in the habit of meeting and receiving kindnesses from persons who, either in themselves, or through their relatives, had been wounded by his pen, he felt every fresh instance of courtesy from such quarters to be, (as he sometimes, in the strong language of Scripture, expressed it,) like "heaping coals of fire upon his head."
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

Negative Quantity , Kant’s essay on, 381 , 403 n. New Doctrine of Motion and Rest , Kant’s, 354 , 381 n. Newton, his influence on Kant, lv-lvi , 96 n. , 140-2 , 161 ff., 354 n. ; Kant modifies Newton’s cosmology, 539 Noumenon, positive and negative conception of, 408 ff., 413 .
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith

It originated from the figure of a man's face cut in a sycamore tree which stood near the confluence of the Mombakkus and Rondout kills on the patent to Tjerck Classen de Witt, and was carved, tradition says, to commemorate a battle fought near the spot," that "for this information" he was "indebted to the late Dr. Westbrook, who said the stump of the tree yet stood in his youthful days."
— from Footprints of the Red Men Indian geographical names in the valley of Hudson's river, the valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: their location and the probable meaning of some of them. by Edward Manning Ruttenber

These well fagged troops by their fitness, even more than by their numbers, astonished many an onlooker who was by no means a "raw Kaffir"; and one old Dutchman expressed the thought of many minds when he said, "You seem able to turn out soldiers by machinery, all of the same age !"
— from With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back by Edward P. Lowry