In sooth, he lent a gracious ear, Meanwhile expressing modest fear, Lest such a load of royal care Should be too great for him to bear.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

She says, 'There's such a lot o' room in that big place, why don't they give her a bit for herself, even if she doesn't plant nothin' but parsley an' radishes?
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

confer honor on, reflect honor on &c. v.; shed a luster on; redound to one's honor, ennoble.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The duke came to himself slowly and like one recovering consciousness after a heavy sleep, and the duchess and all who had fallen prostrate about the garden did the same, with such demonstrations of wonder and amazement that they would have almost persuaded one that what they pretended so adroitly in jest had happened to them in reality.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“It is strange,” pursued he, “that while I love Rosamond Oliver so wildly—with all the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the object of which is exquisitely beautiful, graceful, fascinating—I experience at the same time a calm, unwarped consciousness that she would not make me a good wife; that she is not the partner suited to me; that I should discover this within a year after marriage; and that to twelve months’ rapture would succeed a lifetime of regret.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

And thus they will have all those select gods to be the world and its parts,—some of [Pg 280] them the whole world, others of them its parts; the whole of it Jupiter,—its parts, Genius, Mater Magna, Sol and Luna, or rather Apollo and Diana, and so on.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Meanwhile the “heads” of the mother-sheaf [ 247 ] are pounded, and the grain thus obtained is mixed with the grain obtained from the Rice-soul, and deposited in the rice-bin ( kĕpok ) together with a stone, a lump of rosin ( damar ), and a wreath composed of the empty rice-ears.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

As when the mountain-oak, or poplar tall, Or pine, fit mast for some great admiral, Groans to the oft-heaved axe, with many a wound, Then spreads a length of ruin o'er the ground: So sunk proud Asius in that dreadful day, And stretch'd before his much-loved coursers lay.
— from The Iliad by Homer

In passing out of Glass into Air, where the Refraction is measured by the Ratio of the Sines 20 to 31, the total Reflexion begins when the Angle of Incidence is 40 Degrees 10 Minutes; and so in passing out of Crystal, or more strongly refracting Mediums into Air, there is still a less obliquity requisite to cause a total reflexion.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

As we drew near the shore a line of runners extended down the beach to us, keeping within shouting distance of each other.
— from Alaska Days with John Muir by Samuel Hall Young

In their condition of desperate poverty, they have little to lose; but that little is daily put at stake, and lost, or rather thrown away, with as much coolness and indifference, as if the inexhaustible mines of their golden mountains were all their own.
— from Rambles by Land and Water; or, Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico by Benjamin Moore Norman

With the same deliberate slowness and look of rapturous intentness on his face, he drew forth the square black book and the long box beside it, and with a strange, fleeting glance at Squib and a catch in his voice, he asked— “What is it, little Herr?”
— from Squib and His Friends by Evelyn Everett-Green

Hence perjury on the part of a superior, and loss of respect on the side of the subordinate.
— from Saint John Chrysostom, His Life and Times A sketch of the church and the empire in the fourth century by W. R. W. (William Richard Wood) Stephens

Passing through a patch of withered weeds we saw a lot of rabbit tracks and that made us pause, for rabbits are not to be despised, especially when you haven't managed to get one in a long time.
— from In Pastures Green by Peter McArthur

"I might point out that our hypothetical superman might be able to stand a lot of rough treatment," I blurted.
— from Highways in Hiding by George O. (George Oliver) Smith

It seemed to him so renovated and advanced, in comparison, that he could not understand his sister's slight shudder and look of repugnance as they entered the bare hall.
— from Missy: A Novel by Miriam Coles Harris

No statues nor pictures were to be seen; at the further end was a raised desk, at which stood a lector or reader, while a higher desk at the same part of the building, formed like a rostrum, served for the preacher who was to address the congregation.
— from Jovinian: A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome by William Henry Giles Kingston

152 With us, to whom an excursion to “the Londe of Promyssioun or of Behest” has sometimes arisen out of a morning engagement—we who impelled by steam go “whither we list,” with those billets which might serve as letters of recommendation in the steppes of Tartary,—we may wonder how our knight, who would not win his way by the arts of commerce, like his predecessor Marco Polo, bore up his chivalry; for in his traversing he had nothing to offer but his honourable sword, and probably his medical science, which might be sometimes as perilous.
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

There was a good-natured simplicity, a lack of reserve, a childishness about them, yet there were a bigness, a pathos, and a grandeur in their bearing....
— from The Little Moment of Happiness by Clarence Budington Kelland