Ah, the good horse that was brought all the long way from Barbary, he takes no more care of him than if he were a wild ass's colt—and the noble armour, that was worth so many zecchins to Joseph Pareira, the armourer of Milan, besides seventy in the hundred of profits, he cares for it as little as if he had found it in the highways!”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

But Hiketes who had obtained his post of commander-in-chief with a view, not to the liberation of Syracuse, but the establishment of himself as despot there, had already had secret negotiations with the Carthaginians, though in public he commended the Syracusans, and sent ambassadors of his own with the rest to Peloponnesus: not that he wished that any assistance should come thence, but, in case the Corinthians, as was probable, should refuse their help because of the disturbed state of Greece, he hoped that he should more easily be able to bring matters round to suit the Carthaginian interest, and to use them as allies either against the Syracusan citizens, or against their despot.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Prope hanc civitatem (est) alia provincia dicta MUS e
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The King let him take these things by day into the castle, and when it was evening the youth went in and made himself a bright fire in one of the rooms, and, placing his cutting-board and knife near it, he sat down upon his lathe.
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

Nor does he punctuate his conversation by pushing or nudging or patting people, nor take his conversation out of the drawing-room!
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Now Periander had chosen out the sons of the chief men of Corcyra and was sending them to Sardis to be made eunuchs, in order that he might have revenge; since the Corcyreans had first begun the offence and had done to him a deed of reckless wrong.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

But their servitude could only last till a leader, bold and eloquent, should arise to persuade his countrymen that the same arms which they forged for their masters, might become, in their own hands, the instruments of freedom and victory.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Pull his canoe home with your line, Fisherman.’
— from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

By this speech, and by his behavior, which showed Cæsar the frankness of his mind, he greatly gained upon him, who was himself of a generous and magnificent temper, insomuch that those very actions, which were the foundation of the accusation against him, procured him Cæsar's good-will.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

And George’s imagination worked overtime, so that he was positive he could recognize the familiar outlines of the craft that looked like the Tramp .
— from Motor Boat Boys Among the Florida Keys; Or, The Struggle for the Leadership by Louis Arundel

Not less nobly, Patrick H. Cohen, a private soldier of the 133d New York, himself lying wounded on the crest, cut a canteen from the body of a dead comrade and by lengthening the strap succeeded in tossing it within reach of his commander; this probably preserved Paine's life, for unquestionably many of the more seriously hurt perished from the heat and from thirst on that fatal day.
— from History of the Nineteenth Army Corps by Richard B. (Richard Biddle) Irwin

The blameless lives of the German popes had cast a veil of oblivion over the abominations of their Italian predecessors.
— from History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume II (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

With one word he was indeed very particular, he could not bring himself to use that manifest corruption `toot.'
— from Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris

Here is a platform to which Paul himself could hardly object.
— from The Christ of Paul; Or, The Enigmas of Christianity by George Reber

For the ordinary policing of that locality he assigned a division of three frigates, under a Captain Gore, who possessed his confidence.
— from The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

As the heavens and the earth are his property, he can, with as much equity as ease, summon either or both to act in his controversy with a guilty world.
— from Sermons by the late Rev. Richard de Courcy by Richard De Courcy

This is one of the Berg-leute, mountain people; he comes from the Freiberg silver district, and is attired in the full dress of a miner.
— from A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by William Duthie

She patted his cheek.
— from The Plowshare and the Sword: A Tale of Old Quebec by John Trevena