at the arrival of the husband the lictor, according to some ancient custom, knocked at the door.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

But what else can it be except that you are a she, and cannot keep quiet?
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

H2 anchor Chapter 1.XXXV.—How Gymnast very souply and cunningly killed Captain Tripet and others of Picrochole’s men.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

J. Corneford, of Wortham; C. Browne, of Maidstone; J. Herst, of Ashford; Alice Snoth, and Catharine Knight, an aged woman.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

ken, the spirit of the expedition had dissolved, the great body were talking of returning, some of the stragglers indeed were on their way back, the Bishop silent and confused kept knocking the mane of his mule with his hammer.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Exit PISANIO A sly and constant knave, Not to be shak'd; the agent for his master, And the remembrancer of her to hold The hand-fast to her lord.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Many students leave school and college knowing a great deal, but without a bit of improvement in their self-confidence, their initiative ability.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The spirits are called Kāppiri (probably Kaffirs or foreigners).
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Nor a musician as I seem to be; But one that scorn to live in this disguise For such a one as leaves a gentleman And makes a god of such a cullion: Know, sir, that I am call’d Hortensio.
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

He was a disgusting person, despised as much by his subjects as by his four wives, but the Holy Alliance maintained him upon his legitimate throne and all efforts of the decent Spaniards to get rid of this curse and make Spain a constitutional kingdom ended in bloodshed and executions.
— from The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Four species of Sturgeon are commonly known.
— from A Natural History for Young People: Our Animal Friends in Their Native Homes including mammals, birds and fishes by Phebe Westcott Humphreys

On the following morning Vera received a beautiful present from his Majesty: an order, the collar of St. Anne, commonly known in Russia as "Annooshka na shay".
— from Moscow: A Story of the French Invasion of 1812 by Frederick Whishaw

Corporal Searle and Constable Kistruck, from Pincher Creek, and Constable Wilson, from MacLeod, were posted at the entrance to the two mines to keep the crowd back and preserve order generally, while Corporals Mead and Grant and Constable Hancock looked after the mutilated bodies as they were brought out of the mine.
— from Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police by R. G. (Roderick George) MacBeth

They are avenues, then, ample as to width, and smooth and hard, and planted on both sides with exactly spaced and carefully kept trees.
— from The Car That Went Abroad: Motoring Through the Golden Age by Albert Bigelow Paine

Now he shaped his plans swiftly and carefully, knowing where she stood.
— from The Everlasting Whisper by Jackson Gregory

Scherematoff and Chrematoff, Koklophti, Koclobski, Kourakin, and Mouskin Pouskin, All proper men of weapons, as e'er scoffed high
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

At the top of it was a colored print from some French painting, showing a Cupid kissing a filmily draped Psyche.
— from Abroad at Home: American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Julian Street