How shall our legions pass within, The city of the foe to win, With massive walls and portals barred Which Rávaṇ keeps with surest guard?”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The disease missed the animal and hit Alexander Douglas of Dalkeith, who dwined and died of it, while the original patient, Robert Kers, was made whole.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

We carefully took off these coverings, and as Baptiste approached his lantern to the front of this little vehicle, which looked like a rolling kennel, we saw in it a little baby sleeping peacefully.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

"O King, live for ever!" was the conventional form of address to the Persian monarch, and one is tempted to think that its realization might be the solution of all political troubles, provided the right king was chosen for immortality.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

I left the breakfast-table, and as I ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small brass box, like a cash-box, in the other.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

Another Rabbi, Abraham Reviga, Kabbalist, with whom he studied, intimated to him that under the attribute called Binah is to be understood the Son of God.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

I now subjoin the best report of casualties I am able to compile from the records thus far received: Killed; Wounded; and Missing............... 1949
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

And this is perhaps true but it may well be otherwise, since you do not really know what the correct way should be.)
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

“That would depend on yourself,” replied Kostanzhoglo with grim abruptness and evident ill-humour.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Thousands of years ago, this science of symbolism was adopted by the sagacious priesthood of Egypt to convey the lessons of worldly wisdom and religious knowledge, which they thus communicated to their disciples.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

“This morning the hunters brought in some fat deer of the long-tailed red kind, which are quite as large as those of the United States, and are, indeed, the only kind we have found at this place.
— from First Across the Continent The Story of the Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Noah Brooks

The last, barely audible, came out in a rush, with a jerk of the head that Roy knew well.
— from Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Maud Diver

Had the government gained much by establishing a literary police which prevented Englishmen from having the History of the Bloody Circuit, and allowed them, by way of compensation, to read tracts which represented King William and Queen Mary as conquerors?
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

But the rebels kept within their fortifications.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr

Except Lord Robert Kerr, we lost nobody of note: Sir Robert Rich's eldest son has lost his hand, and about a hundred and thirty private men fell.
— from Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I by Horace Walpole

"He was always good-natured," returned Katherine, with some embarrassment; "and, you remember, he used to notice Cis and Charlie at Castleford a good deal."
— from A Crooked Path: A Novel by Mrs. Alexander

It's the screws sterning that makes the boat go," the Unwiseman remarked with all the pride of one who really knows what he is talking about.
— from Mollie and the Unwiseman Abroad by John Kendrick Bangs

Perhaps indeed he or she to whom the free exhilarating extasy of nakedness in Nature has never been eligible (and how many thousands there are!) has not really known what purity is—nor what faith or art or health really is.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

You didn't really know what he was then."
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill