He informed them that his own name was Don Quixote of La Mancha, and that he was called, by way of surname, the Knight of the Lions.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

and then she marched at the head of the procession to the family keeping-room, where she observed: 'Unless, R. W.': who started on being solemnly turned upon: 'you have taken the precaution of making some addition to our frugal supper on your way home, it will prove but a distasteful one to Bella.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Though there was a garrison within their walls of a thousand Eleans, a thousand Aetolians with the pirates, five hundred mercenaries, and two hundred Lacedaemonians, and though too their citadel was in the occupation of these troops, yet they ventured to make a stand for the freedom of their native city, and would not give up hope of deliverance.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

We begged her not to mention it and made all the haste we could to get down to the fire again.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

One of these stories is the fable of Aquila and Vega, known in Chinese mythology as the Herdsman and the Weaver-girl.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Therefore, he resolved to keep Two before his mind, as the hour, and so to strengthen himself in the interval that he might be able, after that time, to strengthen others.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Nobody was more attentive to him than Mr. Langton, to whom he tenderly said, Te teneam moriens deficiente manu.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Father Sanchez has discussed the question very fully “whether the Virgin Mary ‘spent’ in copulation with the Holy-Ghost,” unhappily, he decided in the negative, and I have too much veneration for Father Sanchez not to submit to his decision; but because of it, I am vexed with the Virgin Mary and the Holy Ghost.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

Even readers of his own day must at times have been fain to guess his meaning.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Each seemed necessary to the greatness of the other; and it is probable that, if Tazewell had not been constantly pressed throughout his career by such a man as Taylor, he would never have made those wonderful displays before a jury and in popular assemblies which form no small part of his fame; and that Taylor, unless checked by the severe logic of Tazewell, would, indeed, have been, as he was, the great advocate of his time, but would have failed to acquire that reputation for profound ability and learning in the law, which no less a judge than Marshall acknowledged in terms of high commendation.
— from Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell by Hugh Blair Grigsby

Here they settled once more, and those hardy pioneers, amongst whom I believe was President Kruger, are the oldest white inhabitants of this the South African Republic.
— from With Rifle and Bayonet: A Story of the Boer War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

She rose with a snort of defiance, and, muttering angrily to herself, went off to the fire with her sliced onions.
— from From Veldt Camp Fires by H. A. (Henry Anderson) Bryden

O, mighty humbleness that feels with awe, Yet with a vast exulting feels, no less, That this huge Minster of the Universe, [Pg 18] Whose smallest oratories are glorious worlds, With painted oriels of dawn and sunset; Whose carvèd ornaments are systems grand, Orion kneeling in his starry niche, The Lyre whose strings give music audible To holy ears, and countless splendors more, Crowned by the blazing Cross high-hung o'er all; Whose organ music is the solemn stops Of endless Change breathed through by endless Good; Whose choristers are all the morning stars; Whose altar is the sacred human heart Whereon Love's candles burn unquenchably, Trimmed day and night by gentle-handed Peace; With all its arches and its pinnacles That stretch forever and forever up, Is founded on the silent heart of God, Silent, yet pulsing forth exhaustless life Through the least veins of all created things.
— from Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell

Steele was too shrewd a man not to have recognised that he had discovered the weak spot in Blairs armour, which was a fixed aversion against being brought into conflict of any kind with the great Rockervelt, and this knowledge gave the young man assurance that his position on the staff of the gigantic corporation was more stable than he had hitherto regarded it.
— from The Speculations of John Steele by Robert Barr

While these things were transacting at Lisbon , and that the Duke's Friends were using all their Endeavours for his Re-establishment, he receiv'd an Express from Olivarez , (who grew very jealous of his Conduct) with positive Orders to come immediately to Madrid ; and that he might have nothing to colour his Delay, he remitted him a Bill upon the Royal Treasury for Ten Thousand Ducats.
— from The Revolutions of Portugal by abbé de Vertot

“Let me show you the way, then,” said Hagen, and as he and Siegfried moved away together, he asked hesitatingly:— “Will you run a race with me, Sir Siegfried, to see which of us will reach the stream first?
— from Stories from Northern Myths by Emilie K. (Emilie Kip) Baker

The first news-sheet published in Manila appears to have been the Filántropo , in the year 1822, which existed only a few years.
— from The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, Embracing the Whole Period of Spanish Rule by Foreman, John, F.R.G.S.