Then the king counted all who had taken the adventure on themselves, and found them a hundred and fifty knights of the Round Table; and so they all put on their helms, and rode away together in the midst of cries and lamentations from the court, and from the ladies, and from all the town.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

To make this plain by an example, suppose a geometrician is demonstrating the method of cutting a line in two equal parts.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

In our course we coasted many other countries, and lastly arrived at the Morning Star now newly inhabited, where we landed and took in fresh water: from thence we entered the Zodiac, passing by the Sun, and, leaving it on our right hand, took our course near unto the shore, but landed not in the country, though our company did much desire it, for the wind would not give us leave: but we saw it was a flourishing region, fat and well watered, abounding with all delights: but the Nephelocentaurs espying us, who were mercenary soldiers to Phaethon, made to our ship as fast as they could, and finding us to be friends, said no more unto us, for our Hippogypians were departed before.
— from Lucian's True History by of Samosata Lucian

The death of William, the execution of Justine, the murder of Clerval, and lastly of my wife; even at that moment I knew not that my only remaining friends were safe from the malignity of the fiend; my father even now might be writhing under his grasp, and Ernest might be dead at his feet.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

In this market, however, as generally in wholesale markets, the consumers of the goods, the newspaper readers, take no direct part; the determining factors are the wholesale dealers and the speculators in news: the governments, the telegraph bureaus dependent upon their special correspondents, the political parties, artistic and scientific cliques, men on 'change, and, last but not least, the advertising agencies and large individual advertisers.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

"On that account," says the earl, "he gave the matter into our hands; as I, and many other chiefs and leading men here in the country, have often complained to King Canute of the evil consequences to the country of being without a king, and that former kings thought it honour and power enough to rule over the Danish kingdom alone; and in the times that are past many kings have ruled over this kingdom.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Like the French, the Italians make much of café au lait for breakfast.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

There is a simple rule, by which if one is a voluble chatterer (to be a good talker necessitates a good mind) one can at least refrain from being a pest or a bore.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The cultivation and improvement of the country, therefore, which affords subsistence, must, necessarily, be prior to the increase of the town, which furnishes only the means of conveniency and luxury.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The catechism, even in the matter of confession, and likewise the theology of the hymns, closely trenched on the regulations for Divine worship.
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

“The patient’s uvula has been cleverly plucked out with a silken thread,” observed the visitor exultingly, when his toilet was happily completed:—“the thorax has been well scarified, and furthermore, we are giving ya medur oomboi (Cucumis Africanus, Linn).
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

The big machine of modern industry must indeed have many odd cams and levers adjusted to it.
— from The Romance of a Great Store by Edward Hungerford

Ethan made friends with the rector, and whether out of gratitude for the Rev. Mr. Searle's permission to practise in the church, or from the reflection that Holy Orders presented a means of combining a livelihood with an organ, the upshot was that Ethan presently became a student of Divinity.
— from The Open Question: A Tale of Two Temperaments by Elizabeth Robins

Previously to that time, I am afraid I had counted a little more than was becoming on the ease of my own circumstances, and Lucy's comparative poverty.
— from Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

A pretty, pensive creature, but bright for the moment, as was the other one—the one who was all made of colour and light.
— from Ombra by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

“I have—carefully concealed in a private compartment of my writing-desk, in my own chamber at Lord Ellingham’s mansion.”
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

Omrah, who was not at all hurt, instantly jumped on his legs, and, if he had been afraid, appeared to have quite recovered his courage, as he cut all manner of capers, and laughed immoderately; but Big Adam was greatly exhausted and could not move, as much from the immense pressure of the lion's enormous body, as from the blood that he had lost by the wounds which he had received.
— from The Mission by Frederick Marryat

“It’s my patent mixture of carbolic and lamp-oil.
— from Burning Sands by Arthur E. P. Brome (Arthur Edward Pearse Brome) Weigall

It is on the matter of fact that there is not much migration of capital and labor from country to country that Mr. Mill has based his whole doctrine of “international trade and international values.”
— from Principles of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill