Come now; band, not of officers, but of thieves; footpads with the licence of the Holy Brotherhood; tell me who was the ignoramus who signed a warrant of arrest against such a knight as I am?
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

His race ran up it far, like a long chain; Below it sung a king, above it died a God.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

The dwarfs said, "If you will take care of our house, cook, make the beds, wash, sew, and knit, and if you will keep everything neat and clean, you can stay with us and you shall want for nothing."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair[obs3]; divorce, part, dispart[obs3], detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate; set apart, keep apart; insulate,, isolate; throw out of gear; cut adrift; loose; unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock &c. (fix) 43, unpack, unravel; disentangle; set free &c. (liberate)
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

There are (1) duties arising out of comparatively permanent relationships not voluntarily chosen, such as Kindred and in most cases Citizenship and Neighbourhood: (2) those of similar relationships voluntarily contracted, such as Friendship: (3) those that spring from special services received, or Duties of Gratitude: and (4) those that seem due to special need, or Duties of Pity.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

They fall together by virtue of their qualitative identity even before their spatial superposition; for in order to be known as repeatedly simultaneous, and associable by contiguity, they must be associated by similarity and known as individually repeated.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

In the latter the names Ambalakāran, Sērvaikāran, Vēdan, Siviyān, and Kuruvikkāran are indiscriminately applied to the caste.”
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

I've been East to school, and knocked around in a lot of different places, and I like it here as a kind of a change.
— from Checkers: A Hard-luck Story by Henry Blossom

For me, so notably trusted by King Henry, to break my bonds, would shame both Scots and kings; and it were yet more paltry to feign to yield to my Lord of Douglas.
— from The Caged Lion by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Not every one realizes that her reserve hides a sympathy as keen as it is deep, though no one doubts this who has ever appealed to her for help.
— from The Story of Wellesley by Florence Converse

Before (I think) the number of the 'Edinburgh Review' for April, 1839, could have been in the hands of the public, I had addressed to Lord (then Mr.) Macaulay the following letter, which I shall make no apology for inserting, inasmuch as it will introduce one more morsel of his writing, for which the public justly shows a keen and insatiable appetite.
— from Chapter of Autobiography by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

Fire-arms, sabres, and knives are imported by the merchants of Tripoli and Ghâdames.
— from Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Jules Verne

The sergeant asked for pepper and salt; minced the food fine and made it savoury, and kept administering it by teaspoonfuls; urging Philip to drink from time to time from his own cup of dog's-nose.
— from Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 3 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Now, it is not the ordinary practice, of course, for the Commission to advise witnesses what kind of an investigation it has made in connection with this thing, at least, not until the report comes out, but I think you ought to know that as a result of the existence of this gun ticket and the story that you told the FBI and the Commission, the FBI has attempted to find every Oswald in the whole Dallas and Fort Worth area and the surrounding area and it has found many of them and it has questioned all of them, some of whom have moved out of Dallas and Fort Worth, as to whether or not they ever had any work done in that gunshop, and you should know that none of them ever did, and you should also know, and I think you probably do by now, that Lee Oswald could not have had any scope mounted on the rifle that he used to assassinate the President in your shop, and in fact, I don't think you claim you did mount that particular scope?
— from Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Not that there was much housekeeping skill about Kirsty, as indeed any one might see even without entering Macdonald Dubh's house.
— from The Man from Glengarry: A Tale of the Ottawa by Ralph Connor

Indeed, methinks that wild beast, her grandfather, had so crushed her spirit by his tyranny and his violence that nothing that happened to her might seem sharp and keen, as it does to others of an ordinary sort.
— from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main by Howard Pyle