Alas, said Garnish, now is my sorrow double that I may not endure, now have I slain that I most loved in all my life; and therewith suddenly he rove himself on his own sword unto the hilts.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

He told him, moreover, that in this castle of his there was no chapel in which he could watch his armour, as it had been pulled down in order to be rebuilt, but that in a case of necessity it might, he knew, be watched anywhere, and he might watch it that night in a courtyard of the castle, and in the morning, God willing, the requisite ceremonies might be performed so as to have him dubbed a knight, and so thoroughly dubbed that nobody could be more so.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"You did not introduce me to your friend, by-the-bye, my dear boy," he said.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Though I am sure of their affection, yet when the soul is burdened and one is surrounded by strangers, a letter from a loved one brings healing to the spirit, and I need it more than I can tell.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

The name is meant to be opposed to that of the popular dialects called Prākṛita , and is so opposed, for instance, in the Kāvyādarça , or Mirror of Poetry , a work of the sixth century A.D.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Accordingly, in conjunction with his friend Dr. Ernest Lacy, he has prepared a second, more unconventional translation,—in brief, a translation which will enable one whose knowledge of English extends to, say, the period of Elizabeth, to appreciate Nietzsche in more forcible language, because the language of a stronger age.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I will conclude the present therefore with a short extract from Herder, whose name I might have added to the illustrious list of those, who have combined the successful pursuit of the Muses, not only with the faithful discharge, but with the highest honours and honourable emoluments of an established profession.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Without these I could not indeed manage to remain.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

[64] 231 “A Stork too, that welcome guest from foreign lands, that devotee of filial duty, with its long thin legs and rattling bill, the bird that is banished by the winter and announces the coming of the warm season, has made his accursed nest in my boiler.”
— from A Year with the Birds Third Edition, Enlarged by W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler

For Jack to own , have a thing for Jack's own , Jack must by his own force have subdued Nature, must have taken the thing by moving the thing's atoms, or moving something relatively to the thing, or, negatively, by not evading, but accepting, the thing in motion—a wind, tide, light-wave; else Jack must have taken something (by as much work) to purchase the thing from its (true) owner, or accepted it as a favour from Nature in motion, or from its (true) owner.
— from The Lord of the Sea by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

But there was an impediment—the monopoly had been deemed a grievance, and in 1617, Bacon had replied to Buckingham’s application for it in the following terms:— “I have conferred with my Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Solicitor thereupon, and there is a scruple in it that it should be one of the grievances put down in Parliament; which, if it be, I may not, in my duty and love to you, advise you to deal in it; if it be not, I will mould in the best manner and help it forward.”
— from The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 1 (of 3) From original and authentic sources by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

O. N. [¯i] most frequently remains [¯i] , written i , y : flyre , gryce , grise , myth , skrik , rive , ryfe , tithand , etc.
— from Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch A contribution to the study of the linguistic relations of English and Scandinavian by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

I should therefore have passed rapidly through it if the remarkable talent of the organist who was performing part of the service had not induced me to remain.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The one thing needful nowadays is money; that is all that the Revolution has done that I can see.
— from The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac

Dame Nature, in mistaken kindness, was trying to adjust him to his new diet.
— from The Cassowary; What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Stanley Waterloo

If anything new in magnetism or electricity, or any other branch of natural knowledge, has occurred to your fruitful genius since I last had the pleasure of seeing you, you will by communicating it greatly oblige me.
— from James Watt by Andrew Carnegie