Yule's deep sympathy in this time of sorrow strengthened the friendship Lord Canning had long felt for him, and when the time approached for the Governor-General to vacate his high office, he invited Yule, who was very weary of India, to accompany him home, where his influence would secure Yule congenial employment.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

At the news of Don Quixote's arrival Sancho Panza's wife came running, for she by this time knew that her husband had gone away with him as his squire, and on seeing Sancho, the first thing she asked him was if the ass was well.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Yet, sir, reflect, the mischief is not great; These madmen never hurt the Church or State; Sometimes the folly benefits mankind; And rarely av’rice taints the tuneful mind.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

From Ludgate again on the left hand, or south side to Fleet bridge, to Bride lane, which runneth south by Bridewell, then to Water lane, which runneth down to the Thames.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

My friends there, who conceiv'd I had been of some service, thought fit to reward me by employing me in printing the money; a very profitable jobb and a great help to me.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

The horse, turn'd loose to graze, Not liking much their looks or ways, Was just about to gallop off. 'Sir,' said the fox, 'your humble servants, we Make bold to ask you what your name may be.'
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

It is the second of such scenes; the first was of some Seventy.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

That was my introduction to a shell-hole, and I resolved right there that the infantry could have all the shell-hole fighting they wanted, but it did not appeal to me, though they live in them through many a long night and [Pg 28] I had only sought shelter there for a few minutes.
— from Outwitting the Hun: My Escape from a German Prison Camp by Pat O'Brien

Later, when the use and effectiveness of artillery developed and guns supplanted catapults in vigour as well as in fact, some time at the end of the fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century, we may suppose that this old crenelated wall was removed, and the escarp wall of the ditch was raised and strengthened and provided with embrasures for large cannon, and rounded off on the outside so as to neutralise the effect of shot striking the face of the walls.
— from The Story of Nuremberg by Cecil Headlam

A field of stars seemed to follow him from the roof as he moved with difficulty towards the opening of the cave.
— from A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That 'Uncle Paul' Wrote) by Algernon Blackwood

I was in London—in London at last—and if those words don't convey to you the kind of savage satisfaction that filled my soul you must be as deficient in imagination as a prison governor.
— from A Rogue by Compulsion An Affair of the Secret Service by Victor Bridges

Grouped just behind them, on foot, wrapped in bright-lined cloaks garnished with gold-lace, with studied carelessness letting glimpses of their red and green crosses be seen, in one hand the hat, whose plumes kissed the carpet, the other hand resting upon the polished hilt of a rapier or caressing the handle of an ornate dagger, the four and twenty knights, with a large proportion of the highest nobility of Seville, seemed to form a wall for the purpose of protecting their daughters and their wives from contact with the populace.
— from Romantic legends of Spain by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

He strode off swiftly southward, the files following, swaying and bending in and out with the deep curves of the gorge.
— from A Double Barrelled Detective Story by Mark Twain

Take care of yourself; she is capable of setting some trap for you and shutting you up in Charenton.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac