“Only two hundred zecchins!” said the bandit; “your master hath dealt liberally by the vanquished, and put them to a cheap ransom.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

En ĝi oni rakontas ke la reĝo kun plezuro legis aŭ skribis per sia plumo, dum malfruaj horoj de la nokto.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

On whom Apollo shall the palm bestow, And whom the Greeks supreme by conquest know, This mule his dauntless labours shall repay, The vanquish'd bear the massy bowl away.
— from The Iliad by Homer

The verdant gras my couch did goodly dight, And pillow was my helmet faire displayd: Whiles every sence ° the humour sweet embayd, And slombring soft my hart did steale away, 115 Me seemed, by my side a royall Mayd Her daintie limbes full softly down did lay: So faire a creature yet saw never sunny day.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

CUT: Your question is, For how many causes a man may have divortium legitimum, a lawful divorce?
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

I will make him dance like a bear on a pole!”
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

He was charged with making himself popular He is not a man fit to be told what one hears He will do no good, he being a man of an unsettled head He is a man of no worth in the world but compliment Heeling her on one side to make her draw little water History of this day’s growth, we cannot tell the truth House of Lords is the last appeal that a man can make How do the children? Hugged, it being cold now in the mornings....
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

She shared his thoughts in time of war, and his joy when allowed to relinquish his wandering life, and return to his home; to enter once more his deserted library, and superintend his long neglected garden.
— from The Women of The American Revolution, Vol. 2 by E. F. (Elizabeth Fries) Ellet

In this mood he delivered (like a ventriloquist) purely internal discourses to all Potentates;–he posted himself on the bench of Knights with church-visitation-discourses,–on the bench of the cities with funeral-discourses,–in the Papal chair he held forth in straw-wreath
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. I. by Jean Paul

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— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The "model" has disappeared, like all its predecessors, and nothing remains to show for certain whether this harp was placed in a blue escutcheon as in the earlier Commonwealth flags or not, but since a request was received from Chatham in the following November for 200 yards of blue bewper "for ye altering of all y e fflaggs and Jacks here y t are of y e former fashion into y e new forme
— from British Flags: Their Early History, and Their Development at Sea With an Account of the Origin of the Flag as a National Device by William Gordon Perrin

"To Lady Stanley's 5 o'clock tea, where I met her daughter Lady Amberley and Sir Samuel Baker, the explorer of the sources of the Nile.
— from Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

People in the gallery said: "they must have dined late," that was a charitable construction to put upon their shameful conduct—I thought to myself, this is their usual behavior—they are always thus.
— from The Cross of Berny; Or, Irene's Lovers by Girardin, Emile de, Mme

He said the people of the United States had the power and the will to break up and to extirpate those hostile savages, to desolate their country, or compel them to surrender at discretion, as the Miamies had done lately when they beheld the strong arm of the Government uplifted and ready to fall upon them heavily.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Then the god Dagon speaking by Thy delicate mouth made horrid din; "Lo the Philistine lords are nigh"— He woke ere thou couldst scarce begin, And took away the web and pin.
— from Toward the Gulf by Edgar Lee Masters

I feel my heart dilating like the sea when it swells before the storm.
— from The Temptation of St. Antony; Or, A Revelation of the Soul by Gustave Flaubert