But with our sword we wip'd away the blot; Therefore, when merchant-like I sell revenge, Broke be my sword, my arms torn and defac'd,
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

She saw him in his pride of place, The joy of old Pulastya's 487 race, Begirt by counsellor and peer, Rávaṇ, the foeman's mortal fear, And terror in her features shown, The giantess approached the throne.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

We went into the drawing-room, to leave her with the Doctor and her mother; but she said, it seemed, that she was better than she had been since morning, and that she would rather be brought among us; so they brought her in, looking very white and weak, I thought, and sat her on a sofa.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

One relates that he once served as a farmer’s boy, and was set to keep the crows from the corn, but preferring to go to Grosmont fair, he confined the crows in an old roofless barn by a magic spell till the next day, when he returned.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

How many times he had risen bleeding, bruised, broken, enlightened, despair in his heart, serenity in his soul!
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

H2 anchor BEARSKIN There was once upon a time a young fellow who enlisted for a soldier, and became so brave and courageous that he was always in the front ranks when it rained blue beans.
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

It is recorded by Bishop Whitehead 17 that “devotees go to the shrine of Durgamma at Bellary with silver pins about six inches long thrust through their cheeks, and with a lighted lamp in a brass dish on their head.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Led by these tokens, and with such traits to guide, Some say that unto bees a share is given Of the Divine Intelligence, and to drink Pure draughts of ether; for God permeates all- Earth, and wide ocean, and the vault of heaven- From whom flocks, herds, men, beasts of every kind, Draw each at birth the fine essential flame; Yea, and that all things hence to Him return, Brought back by dissolution, nor can death Find place: but, each into his starry rank, Alive they soar, and mount the heights of heaven.
— from The Georgics by Virgil

The relationship between baud and bits per second is complex, and often misused.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Illustrated by R. B. Birch.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide by Charles Herbert Sylvester

The morning had been wet and chill, but the rain-clouds swept northward as the day wore on, and at sundown the red bars belted the leaden sky that lay to the west of the towers of the gray castle on the hill.
— from The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir

After this he put his hand into the urn a SECOND TIME, and took out a paper from which he read as follows: "We, natives of the same country, in our lodge have agreed that the origin of conjugial love is the same with the origin of marriages, which were sanctioned by laws in order to restrain man's innate concupiscences prompting him to adultery, which ruins the soul, defiles the reason, pollutes the morals, and infects the body with disease: for adultery is not human but bestial, not rational but brutish, and thus not in any respect Christian but barbarous: with a view to the condemnation of such adultery, marriages originated, and at the same time conjugial love.
— from The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

And the road was built in a straight line, filling in deep ravines, building bridges of a giddy height, which had to be abandoned a few years later, after the railway had cost about £120,000 to £150,000 per English mile.
— from The Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz

He had commenced his career a rigid Brownist; but a more extensive acquaintance with the world, and the conversation p. 95 of learned men, particularly Dr. William Ames, an exile also for religion, rendered him more charitable and moderate.
— from Brief Records of the Independent Church at Beccles, Suffolk Including biographical notices of its ministers,and some account of the rise of nonconformity in the East Anglian counties by S. Wilton (Samuel Wilton) Rix

We cantered down by Skelwith Bridge, And round by Borwick fast we wended, Then scampering over High Cross’ ridge, We to our own fair vale descended.
— from The Old Man; or, Ravings and Ramblings round Conistone by Alexander Craig Gibson

Such English words as ‘hiss,’ ‘roar,’ ‘bang,’ ‘buzz,’ ‘crash,’ &c., are of this class.
— from A Book About Words by G. F. (George Frederick) Graham