The king took his vizir's advice, and the result of so many prayers for an heir to the throne was that a son was born to him the following year.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

But, touching your medicine, kind Sir, in my present frame of body, I need it not.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

No, there are too many presages from entrails, auguries, soothsayings, whereby they boastingly proclaimed themselves prescient of future events and controllers of the fortune of war,—all which prove them to have been present.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

“—respecting the small property of my poor father, whom I never saw—so long dead—” Mr. Lorry moved in his chair, and cast a troubled look towards the hospital procession of negro cupids.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

But first I must provide for my Children.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

It is one of the most picturesque facts of mythology that, after Yama had become in India another [ 283 ] name for Death, the same name reappeared in Persia, and in the Avesta , as a type at once of the Golden Age in the past and of paradise in the future.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

But if they think that this is right, let them also affirm that Jupiter is as many gods as they have given him surnames, on account of many powers; for the things from which these surnames are applied to him are many and diverse.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Miscreant, prepare for death; You have not many hours to live!'
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

But the son of Tydeus turned his horses aside and shot far ahead, for Minerva put fresh strength into them and covered Diomed himself with glory.
— from The Iliad by Homer

She spoke French and German, Madame Perrodon French and broken English, to which my father
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

But we may pass from Beauty in nature to Beauty in man.
— from Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by G. S. (George Sumner) Weaver

The word is a relic of the most primitive form of language.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Song of Solomon and the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Walter F. (Walter Frederic) Adeney

Samuel Turner represented some of the Cromwellian Settlers, and 'his most particular friends,' as he calls them, were amongst those who held grants of land in succession to the old Papist proprietary.
— from Secret Service Under Pitt by William J. (William John) Fitz-Patrick

Nathaniel Glover was a graduate of Harvard, and a wealthy man; partner first of Thomas Hancock, and then of John Hancock.
— from Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771 by Anna Green Winslow

After an apostrophe to happy Britons, on whose propitious isle propitious freedom ever deigns to smile, he closes with an appeal— 'But let me plead for liberty distress'd, And warm for her each sympathetic breast; Amidst the splendid honours which you bear, To save a sister island be your care; With generous ardour make us also free, And give to Corsica a noble Jubilee.' Colman and Foote, of course, as comedians were there, but Goldsmith and Johnson shewed their sense by their absence.
— from James Boswell by W. Keith (William Keith) Leask

After the sandalwood traders abandoned Fiji for more profitable fields, a number of deserters and ship-wrecked men remained.
— from A Racial Study of the Fijians by Norman E. Gabel

So the lonely boy made playmates for himself in his dreams.
— from Near the Top of the World: Stories of Norway, Sweden & Denmark by Nelle E. Moore