When Sir Tristram saw him make such countenance he looked upon both his hands that were fast bounden unto two knights, and suddenly he pulled them both to him, and unwrast his hands, and then he leapt unto his cousin, Sir Andred, and wrested his sword out of his hands; then he smote Sir Andred that he fell to the earth, and so Sir Tristram fought till that he had killed ten knights.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Chemist Charles will himself ascend, from the Tuileries Garden; Montgolfier solemnly cutting the cord.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

= scēaf sceaba = scafa sceabb m. ‘ scab ,’ CP .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

“My past life still comes back to me sometimes.” “Come, come, my girl,” I said, “your past life is all sponged out.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

It is interesting that among these near relations of the bees, the life of the female should be much shorter, corresponding to the much lower degree of specialization found in the colonies.
— from Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems Authorised Translation by August Weismann

The Geraldine addressed Charles V. as most invincible and most sacred Cæsar, ever august; and described himself as Earl of Desmond, Lord of Decies, of O’Gunnell, and of the liberty of Kerry.
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell

“What do you mean?” said Conroy.
— from The Red Hand of Ulster by George A. Birmingham

All her mind seemed concentrated upon what she should do with Justin.
— from The Passionate Friends by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

"Yes, if you please, Mrs. Lake, as soon as you like," and Edward Armstrong turned into his parlour, forming a resolution in his mind that by some means or other he would prevent the possibility of Maria St. Clair ever becoming a governess.
— from Englefield Grange; or, Mary Armstrong's Troubles by Paull, H. B., Mrs.

Sit down and drink, man, the night's young enough yet, and my men may still come.
— from Barbara Winslow, Rebel by Beth Ellis

He had brought me some civilized clothing, At first, I disliked very much to wear garments made by the people I had hated so bitterly.
— from Indian Boyhood by Charles Alexander Eastman

Tacitus, in describing the education of Agricola, who was taken by his mother in his earlier years to study at Massilia, says, c. 4:—“Memoriâ teneo, solitum ipsum narrare, se in primâ juventâ studium philosophiæ, ultra quam concessum Romano et senatori , hausisse; ni prudentia matris incensum ac flagrantem animum coercuisset”.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 2 by George Grote