Many a time have I set eyes upon him in battle when he was driving the Argives to their ships and putting them to the sword.
— from The Iliad by Homer

You may also translate history, in so far as it is not embellished with oratory, which is poetical.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

And also exactly what would be complained of in all the literature which is great enough and old enough to have attained canonical rank, officially or unofficially, were it not that books are admitted to the canon by a compact which confesses their greatness in consideration of abrogating their meaning; so that the reverend rector can agree with the prophet Micah as to his inspired style without being committed to any complicity in Micah's furiously Radical opinions.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

' 'Beg from my men among the horses, I say.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Many a time have I seen General Smith, with a can of preserved meat in his hands, going toward the house, take off his hat on meeting a negro, and, on being asked the reason of his politeness, he would answer that they were the only real gentlemen in California.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Many a time have I seen the eldest of them (she that had been maid to Mrs Jamieson) carrying out some delicate mess to a poor person.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

But he has no sooner destroyed his first will and made a second, than, for fear he should make a third, he is struck down.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I sat down on the trunk by her side, and passing my arm through hers, I said: “Mica! mica!
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Thus, by nature and in all men alike, the heart is stronger than the liver at attracting what is serviceable to it and rejecting what is not so; similarly the liver is stronger than the intestines and stomach, and Pg 295 Greek text the arteries than the veins.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Nothing could have been more abhorrent to her, in such a connection, than the suggestion of her marriage.
— from The Cryptogram: A Novel by James De Mille

Nor do I doubt, while I make their interest the great rule of my writings, they will unanimously concur in supporting my dignity, and in rendering me all the honour I shall deserve or desire.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

“There are a few papers I want to look over, so run up to Molly and tell her I sent my sunshine to her.”
— from The Battle Ground by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

Many a time had I seen men stretched senseless by a well-directed shot from one of them, as narrated in the previous chapter, and I had no wish to repeat the experiment in my own person.
— from Twenty Years of Spoof and Bluff by Carlton

This took much time—as much as two hours I should say—and every hour the snow was getting deeper.
— from True Tales of Mountain Adventures: For Non-Climbers Young and Old by Le Blond, Aubrey, Mrs.

Many a time have I seen a ship's crew strain and heave on warps and cables for hours together, and only gain a yard by all their efforts; but many a time, also, have I seen a single yard of headway save a ship from destruction."
— from The World of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

I was not troubled with any misgivings as to how I should get the book published.
— from Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Brandes

Thus were the civil and ecclesiastical factions regularly formed; and the humor of the nation, during that age, running strongly towards fanatical extravagancies, the spirit of civil liberty gradually revived from its lethargy, and by means of its religious associate, from which it reaped more advantage than honor, it secretly enlarged its dominion over the greater part of the kingdom.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume

I am very glad my lady the duchess has written to my wife Teresa Panza and sent her the present your worship speaks of; and I will strive to show myself grateful when the time comes; kiss her hands for me, and tell her I say she has not thrown it into a sack with a hole in it, as she will see in the end.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra