Trusting to the patrons he had at the court of Madrid, he despatched his house-steward, Torrolva, to Spain, who managed to obtain for him the appointment of adelantado, and vice-regent of all countries north of the river just mentioned.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Epicurus (342-270), founded at Athens the school that bears his name; author of 300 books, [412] natural and ethical philosophy; held happiness to be the highest good; Cicero confuses his teaching here with that of Aristippus and the Cyrenaics; with the latter, happiness consists in individual pleasures; with Epicurus, it is permanent calm of soul and freedom from pain, with pure and lasting pleasures—the pleasures that come from a life of righteousness, iii , 12 , 117 ; the gods existed but had nothing to do with human life, iii , 102 ; adopted the atomic theory.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

She handed him that note in the little book of poetry he had lent her, the little book that had first drawn them together.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

All the surgeons state that where a tooth projects above its fellows it should be filed down; Galen says that for this purpose he has invented an olivary pointed file of steel: σιδήριον ἐποίησα ῥινίον πυρηνοειδές (xiv. 871).
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

Through the scenes of this painful history he flits here and there a lunatic!
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

—Good day, Myles, J. J. O’Molloy said, letting the pages he held slip limply back on the file.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

‘In the act, my dear Annie,’ repeated Mrs. Markleham, spreading the newspaper on her lap like a table-cloth, and patting her hands upon it, ‘of making his last Will and Testament.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Loath am I, therefore, to have this cord wound round me; but in order that ye may not doubt my courage, I will consent, provided one of you put his hand into my mouth as a pledge that ye intend me no deceit.' "
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

He at once takes the bread with a bit of iron hidden in it from his pocket; his heart throbs as he approaches the table and holds out the bread, his hand trembles with excitement.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What unaccustom'd cause procures her hither?
— from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

He had deserv'd much greater Praise, had he corrected his Notions in Philosophy, and his Style in Poetry; for in this Particular, also, he is often deficient.
— from Lectures on Poetry Read in the Schools of Natural Philosophy at Oxford by Joseph Trapp

Two old Turks leaped immediately to their feet with fury depicted on their features; and one of them placed his hand upon the hilt of his cangiar, and pronounced in a voice half-choked with passion the word "Ghiaour," (infidel): in answer to which, I politely told him, (as I was a good Turkish scholar,) to mind his own business, and that I was rather inclined to consider him the greater infidel of the two.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various

And why had she thrust into his hand the little garnet pendant he had given her?
— from Sunlight Patch by Credo Fitch Harris

For his part, he would have thrown open to the young physician his house, his purse, and his heart.
— from Doctor Pascal by Émile Zola

Polly kissed her and presented her husband, pointing to the gold leaves on his shoulders with militaristic pride.
— from The Cup of Fury: A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Rupert Hughes

Only a day or two before Mrs. Shelley perused her husband’s staggering letter from Ravenna, Mrs. Shelley had received a letter from Elise, asking for more money.
— from The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 2 (of 2) by John Cordy Jeaffreson

Mehrab Khan said that he would do his best—that he would place men at Burnes’s disposal to proceed to Nooshky and other places, where the crops were nearly ripe (”and,” said Burnes, parenthetically, “he has done so”)—that he would “give grain in Gundava and Cutchee, and if we would send for our stores at Shikarpoor to Dadur, he would actively aid in passing them through the Bolan—that he might also aid us at Moostung in getting a small quantity of grain; but that there was really very little grain at Khelat, or in the country—that he had reduced his escort to wait on the Shah to 1000 men, on account of the scarcity—and that he could not then furnish the grain, but each man must bring his own.”
— from History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 1 (of 3) Third Edition by Kaye, John William, Sir

When he reached Port Huron he put what was left of his stock in a wagon, and drove through the main streets.
— from Historic Inventions by Rupert Sargent Holland

Mr. Pertell has had a great many applications from players out of work who want to be taken on as extras, and he can have his pick.
— from The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays Or, The Sham Battles at Oak Farm by Laura Lee Hope

“I know—I know,” cried the Count, with a troubled look, as he passed his hand across his brow.
— from Rivers of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne