Mew, Quack-quack, Bow-wow!' John Rokesmith stared at him in his outburst, as if with some faint idea that he had gone mad.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

He was naked, with the exception of cloth drawers at the left side of which hung a large knife in a sheath, and he bore on his right shoulder a heavy iron sledge-hammer.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The Archbishop of Rheims then drew the sword from the scabbard and handed it to the King, who passed it to the principal officer in attendance.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

you certainly may,’ replied Dodson, with something as near a smile as his importance would allow.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

That's like my brother's fault; if it confess / A natural guiltiness, such as his is, / Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue / Against my brother's life.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The little judge turned to the witness as soon as his indignation would allow him to speak, and said— ‘Do you know who that was, sir?’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

All in my power to keep clear of such abomination have I done, and yet that all is too little.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

For it was said that we owe to all men such services as we can render by a sacrifice or effort small in comparison with the service: and hence, in proportion as the needs of other men present themselves as urgent, we recognise the duty of relieving [262] them out of our superfluity.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

[Pg 44] A man's crystallisation of his mistress, or her beauty , is no other thing than the collection of all the satisfactions of all the desires, which he can have felt successively at her instance.
— from On Love by Stendhal

652 in summo (sc. clipeo ), on the top of the shield , as held in position.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Malicorne passed close to the king, almost stumbled against him in fact, and begged his forgiveness with the profoundest humility; but the king, who was in an exceedingly ill-temper, was very sharp in his reproof to Malicorne, who disappeared as soon and as quietly as he possibly could.
— from The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas

The Count stared at her in perplexity for he was not following her mood, nor did he give one fleeting thought to such foolishness as she endowed him with entertaining.
— from Polly and Her Friends Abroad by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

The artist’s name was Sheaf, and his interesting picture represented John Pounds occupied in his benevolent work as a gratuitous teacher of the neglected children of his native town.
— from Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers by W. E. (William Edward) Winks

There is nothing in it of any consequence, I dare say, and had it not been sealed I might, perhaps, have read it, for as the doctor says, `It's a maxim of mine that a wife should have no secrets from her husband,' hey, Maude?" and he caressed her burning cheek, as she read the note which, had it been earlier received, might have changed her whole after life.
— from Cousin Maude by Mary Jane Holmes

So that he is to put on the vestments which are consecrated to God; he is to have the care of the altars, and to make provision for the sacrifices; and he it is that must put up prayers for you to God, who will readily hear them, not only because he is himself solicitous for your nation, but also because he will receive them as offered by one that he hath himself chosen to this office."
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

I attribute the success these dogs, in common with the rest of the bitches in the kennels who had similar advantages, had in whelping and the rearing of their young to the fact that they always had unlimited natural exercise.
— from The Boston Terrier and All About It A Practical, Scientific, and Up to Date Guide to the Breeding of the American Dog by Edward Axtell

The charters which had been granted by Henry I., Stephen, and Henry II., had little effect on this state of things, and were, in fact, repeatedly violated both by themselves and their successors.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses by Anonymous

Judging by the orphans I was shown at Jacoba, Aidecoa and elsewhere, and from all I saw and heard, I believe that half of the 400,000 have died as the result of starvation.
— from Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by Trumbull White