Sometimes he bade him leave off the pursuit, and take the armor of one of his soldiers; and sometimes, when he could not persuade him so to do, he exhorted him to restrain himself, and not to pursue him any longer, lest he should force him to kill him, and he should then not be able to look his brother in the face: but when Asahel would not admit of any persuasions, but still continued to pursue him, Abner smote him with his spear, as he held it in his flight, and that by a back-stroke, and gave him a deadly wound, so that he died immediately; but those that were with him pursuing Abner, when they came to the place where Asahel lay, they stood round about the dead body, and left off the pursuit of the enemy.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

" More important, perhaps, was a second visit which he paid her, a little later.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

It struck him as a pitiable irregularity in other women if they did not roll up their table-napkins with the same tightness and emphasis as Mrs. Glegg did, if their pastry had a less leathery consistence, and their damson cheese a less venerable hardness than hers; nay, even the peculiar combination of grocery and druglike odors in Mrs. Glegg's private cupboard impressed him as the only right thing in the way of cupboard smells.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Ug mangliwat ímung bábuy, paambíta ta ug usa, If your pig has a litter, let me have one. ka-(←) n 1 descendant.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[The Peasantry.] H2 anchor L LA BASTIE (Monsieur, Madame and Mademoiselle de).
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Even the white-lace girl paid her a languid little compliment.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

V. be willing &c. adj.; incline, lean to, mind, propend; had as lief; lend a willing ear, give a willing ear, turn a willing ear; have a half a mind to, have a great mind to; hold to, cling to; desire &c. 865. see fit, think good, think proper; acquiesce &c (assent) 488; comply with &c. 762.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

I happened to pass along the line on some duty or other when I noticed my younger brother, whose keen desire to take some part in the public quarrel had led me, in spite of misgivings, to procure him a lieutenancy, lying on the ground, with his troop.
— from London to Ladysmith via Pretoria by Winston Churchill

As the postman had already left Little Hintock for that night, he sent one of Melbury's men to intercept a mail-cart on another turnpike-road, and so got the letter off.
— from The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy

This plant had a leaf like a bayonet, sometimes six feet long, and readily split into fibers of most astonishing strength, especially when three were braided into a cord.
— from As It Was in the Beginning by Philip Verrill Mighels

But it remained untouched, and, returning to the boat, the boys pushed off and made for the more remote portion of the fen, passing from one open lake to another as they followed the long meandering lanes of water, in and out among reed-beds and alder patches, islands of bog-plants, islets of sedge, and others where the gravel and sand enabled the purple heather and lavender ling to blow profusely, in company with here and there a little gorgeous orange-yellow furze.
— from Dick o' the Fens: A Tale of the Great East Swamp by George Manville Fenn

The rest cordially echoed the toast, but Sir Thomas’s voice was heard to add an unexpected postscript— “Health and long life to Sir Bertrand du Guesclin, and may he ever have as dark a night to aid him to foray a camp!”
— from Under the Flag of France: A Tale of Bertrand du Guesclin by David Ker

He painted himself a little later with the brave kindly face grown mature, and the wisdom of the spirit shining in the eyes, and weighing on the brows.
— from The Old Masters and Their Pictures, For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art by Sarah Tytler

In the beginning of November he was plunged into grief by the sudden intelligence of the death of his friend Mendelssohn , deeply lamenting whose loss both as a man and a musician, he expressed himself as follows in a letter to M. Hauptmann : “What might Mendelssohn in the full maturity of his genius not have written, had fate permitted him a longer life!
— from Louis Spohr's Autobiography Translated from the German by Louis Spohr

Had you met his dogship in the fort, you would, at first glance, have put him down in your mind as an uncommonly large, well-conditioned wolf, whose habits and tastes had been so far civilized as to admit of his tolerating the companionship of man and subsisting on a mixed diet; but at the second glance, noting his color, and the shape of his head, with a certain loftiness of mien and suppleness of backbone—neither of which is ever to be found in the wolf—you would have pronounced him a little lion, shorn of his brindled mane.
— from Burl by Morrison Heady

THE LION AND THE UNICORN By Richard Harding Davis Illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy Prentiss had a long lease on the house, and because it stood in Jermyn Street the upper floors were, as a matter of course, turned into lodgings for single gentlemen; and because Prentiss was a Florist to the Queen, he placed a lion and unicorn over his flower-shop, just in front of the middle window on the first floor.
— from Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, August 1899 by Various