With the life of Winchester ceased the extreme danger of the princess, as many of her other secret enemies soon after followed him, and, last of all, her cruel sister, who outlived Gardiner but three years.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

And so Sir Tristram armed him and took his horse, and put him forth, and there Sir Lamorak met him mightily, and what with the might of his own spear, and of Sir Tristram's spear, Sir Lamorak's horse fell to the earth, and he sitting in the saddle.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

(ll. 492-506) After that, the strength and glorious limbs of the prince increased quickly, and as the years rolled on, great Cronos the wily was beguiled by the deep suggestions of Earth, and brought up again his offspring, vanquished by the arts and might of his own son, and he vomited up first the stone which he had swallowed last.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

make of her, or she what to make of herself."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Meuccio, hearing that no account was taken of gossips in the world to come, began to make mock of his own simplicity, for that whiles he had spared several of them; wherefore, laying by his ignorance, he became wiser in that respect for the future.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

At the Century he had found Winsett again, and at the Knickerbocker the fashionable young men of his own set; and what with the hours dedicated to the law and those given to dining out or entertaining friends at home, with an occasional evening at the Opera or the play, the life he was living had still seemed a fairly real and inevitable sort of business.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

"My old habits of scheming and organising reasserted themselves.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The man who doesn’t believe in Robinson Crusoe , after that , is a man with a screw loose in his understanding, or a man lost in the mist of his own self-conceit!
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

amo master (of house or servants), owner; —a (priest's, bachelor's) housekeeper.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

E. 'If you allow no wine as Dictator, you shall not have me for your master of horse.' On Saturday, April 4, I drank tea with Johnson at Dr. Taylor's, where he had dined.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

But Love didn't know—and, at his weak years, What urchin was likely to know?— That Sorrow had made of her own salt tears The fountain that murmured below.
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore

In conclusion, and by way of a diversion from the main topic, Sergeant Bagby was launching on a circumstantial recital of a certain never-to-be-forgotten passage of words between General Buckner and General Breckenridge on a certain momentous and historic occasion, when an interruption occurred, causing him to break off in the middle of his opening sentence.
— from Old Judge Priest by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

Why there were few men of her own station in life with whom she would have felt safe to spend a fortnight alone upon a savage, uncivilized island!
— from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Now, they were being presented by men of his own station.
— from Millennium by Everett B. Cole

“Ann Lovell is a young woman with a very decided mind of her own,” she observed.
— from The Vision of Desire by Margaret Pedler

I perceived to my unutterable grief, that my well meant but bitter word, had penetrated the inmost recesses of his soul, that the consciousness of his guilt had awaked in him with overwhelming force, that it had suddenly conjured up the darkness of madness over his once so clear and luminous mind....
— from Gabriel: A Story of the Jews in Prague by S. (Salomon) Kohn

Rarely has he been master of his own studies.
— from The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by John Henry Newman

He did not know that way down in the depths of his heart, calloused over as it was by worldly selfishness, there was yet a tender spot, a lingering memory of his only sister whom 'Lena so strongly resembled.
— from 'Lena Rivers by Mary Jane Holmes

I had framed it, with my own hands, of stout tenoned logs, so that it would fit tightly to keep out the frost.
— from The Mistress of Bonaventure by Harold Bindloss