I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Forsooth, sirs, said the herdmen, hereby is good lodging in a castle; but there is such a custom that there shall no knight be harboured but if he joust with two knights, and if he be but one knight he must joust with two.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Umá sat with Shiva On Kailása hill: Round them stood the Rudras Watching for their will.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

I will try, I said; and I wish you would share the enquiry with me, and say 'yes' or 'no' when I attempt to distinguish in my own mind what branches of knowledge have this attracting power, in order that we may have clearer proof that arithmetic is, as I suspect, one of them.
— from The Republic by Plato

[ These arms of mine shall be thy sepulchre: So in Shakespeare's THIRD PART OF KING HENRY VI., act ii.
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

When Laban and himself were compromis'd That all the eanlings which were streak'd and pied Should fall as Jacob's hire, the ewes, being rank, In end of autumn turned to the rams; And when the work of generation was Between these woolly breeders in the act, The skilful shepherd peel'd me certain wands, And, in the doing of the deed of kind, He stuck them up before the fulsome ewes, Who, then conceiving, did in eaning time
— from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

OF KING SIGURD'S MARRIAGE. King Sigurd married Malmfrid, a daughter of King Harald Valdemarson, eastward in Novgorod.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

But the truth is that, if my opponent is unable to defend himself, it gives me the possibility, but not by any means the right, of killing him.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

One other feast was likewise there kept in the year 1531, the 23rd of King Henry VIII.:
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

And, indeed, you couldn't have prosecuted me afterwards, because then I should have told it all in the court; that is, not that I had stolen the money or killed him—I shouldn't have said that—but that you'd put me up to the theft and the murder, though I didn't consent to it.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It renders the Spaniard at times pompous and grandiloquent; prone to carry the “pundonor,” or point of honor, beyond the bounds of sober sense and sound morality; disposed, in the midst of poverty, to affect the “grande caballero,” and to look down with sovereign disdain upon “arts mechanical,” and all the gainful pursuits of plebeian life; but this very inflation of spirit, while it fills his brain with vapors, lifts him above a thousand meannesses; and though it often keeps him in indigence, ever protects him from vulgarity.
— from Wolfert's Roost, and Miscellanies by Washington Irving

Come on then, that mirth may be used, let the Cards also be brought in sight; which formerly, out of a Puritanical humour, ought not to have been seen in a house; nay, not so much as to have been spoken of; but now every one knows how to play artificially at Put, all Fours, Omber, Pas la Bete, Bankerout, and all other games that the expertest Gamesters can play at.
— from The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by A. Marsh

Then Mrs. Mellin took him home again with the intention of keeping him under her eye for the rest of her life.
— from The Red Bicycle by Fergus Hume

The other passage occurs in the Second Part of King Henry IV. , Act IV. Sc. 4.; where Worcester endeavours to persuade the king that Prince Henry will leave his wild courses.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

“I thought I'd rightly ort to thank you for finishin' off Kedge Halloway,” he added.
— from The Gentleman from Indiana by Booth Tarkington

Therefore it has been considered wisest and even necessary as the most conducive to the best interests of the exhibitor and also to simplify the difficulties of judging, and for the maintenance of the various forms of beauty of the cat, to have classes wherein they are shown under rules of colour, points of beauty and excellence that are "hard and fast," and by this means all may not only know how and in what class to exhibit, but also what their chance is of "taking honours."
— from Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured by Harrison Weir

“If—if—you only knew how long, long it is since I heard an English—(where is that thing !)—an English voice, you would not wonder.
— from The Middy and the Moors: An Algerine Story by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Dexter glanced at Helen, but she kept her eyes averted, and the boy went slowly out, keeping his gaze fixed upon her all the time.
— from Quicksilver: The Boy With No Skid to His Wheel by George Manville Fenn

“O king, have you forgotten that chapter of the teoamoxtli , [19] in which is written how this Cû was built, and its first fires lighted, by Quetzal’ himself?
— from The Fair God; or, The Last of the 'Tzins: A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico by Lew Wallace

The Aboriginal Inhabitant said that he would have no hypotheses or Jacobins; that he did not approve of cutting off kings’ heads; and that the Vraibleusians were the most monarchical people in the world.
— from The Voyage of Captain Popanilla by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield