Still trusting to his own right arm Thy hero son will fear no harm: As in his father's palace, he In the wild woods will dauntless be.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Then up rose Robin and took his stout staff in his hand, likewise, and slipped ten golden angels into his pouch; for no beggar's garb was among the stores of the band, so he was fain to run his chance of meeting a beggar and buying his clothes of him.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

But I said I didn’t; so I told him just how to find the raft, and then he started.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

As they stared blankly, in dumb misery deepening as they slowly realised all they had seen and all they had lost, a capricious little breeze, dancing up from the surface of the water, tossed the aspens, shook the dewy roses, and blew Page 183 [Pg 183] lightly and caressingly in their faces; and with its soft touch came instant oblivion.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.
— from The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels

The result of this additional inspection was, to convince Mr Swiveller that the objects by which he was surrounded were real, and that he saw them, beyond all question, with his waking eyes.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Nor is it only in the distribution of military glory, that Rinaldo appears to have suffered for the advantage of Tancred.
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 3 of 3 I. Agorè: Polities of the Homeric Age. II. Ilios: Trojans and Greeks Compared. III. Thalassa: The Outer Geography. IV. Aoidos: Some Points of the Poetry of Homer. by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

The other's face darkened as he read, and then he said: "He was a man of noble impulses, but they were only impulses!
— from The Silent Shore: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

The crawfish then pinched him on the ribs and tickled him so that the raccoon could hardly keep from laughing.
— from Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie L. McLaughlin

Such engines, when put to their speed, were found capable of running at the rate of from twelve to sixteen miles an hour; but they were better adapted for the heavy work of hauling coal-trains at low speeds—for which, indeed, they were specially constructed—than for running at the higher speeds afterward [236] adopted.
— from The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive by Samuel Smiles

our stars as the night boat from Richmond came down the river and trained her searchlight so that it picked Gadabout out of the darkness.
— from Virginia: the Old Dominion As seen from its colonial waterway, the historic river James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history and its figures from the days of Captain John Smith to the present time by Frank W. Hutchins

Luckily for the Conservatives, though he never had the courage to attack a question of the very first class himself in the way of initiative, he had an insatiable ambition for meddling with smaller ones, and by making vents in these ways for his restlessness and his ambition, he finally ruined all that his skilful prudence in the larger affairs had gained him, disgusting the country till it determined to get him off its hands at any price.
— from The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various

Punctually at twelve he was in Bedford Row, and there he saw a respectable-looking female sitting at the fire in the inner part of the outer office.
— from Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope

He might have entered two years ago, but had chosen to remain at the high school until he could go to the preparatory school with a fair chance of making the football team.
— from Quarter-Back Bates by Ralph Henry Barbour

Heylin used it for the reign of Edward VI., but his learned editor (Mr. Robertson) appears to have searched for it in vain.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various