Right glad were they to welcome such a merry blade as Little John.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

And then laughed like an idiot, for all he is a lord's son, and may be a lord himself.—For
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

The notices that were distributed were of huge size and promised a number of delights: skating, a military band, a lottery with no blank tickets, an electric sun, and so on.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

or to what shepherd he was leaving, by his flight, Christ's sheep that were in the midst of wolves? “Hast thou,” he said, “forgotten my example, who, for the sake of those little ones, whom Christ commended to me in token of His affection, underwent at the hands of infidels and enemies of Christ, bonds, stripes, imprisonment, afflictions, and lastly, death itself, even the death of the cross, that I might at last be crowned with Him?” Laurentius, the servant of Christ, roused by the scourging of the blessed Peter and his words of exhortation, went to the king as soon as morning broke, and laying aside his garment, showed the scars of the stripes which he had received.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

We, for this consideration, have granted for us and our heirs to the said Thomas and his heirs that for a difference in this crest they shall and may bear a leopard, and in place of a label a crown argent, without hindrance from us or our heirs aforesaid.—In witness, &c. Witness the King at Westminster, the 12th day of January [17 Ric. II.].
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

And she bade us finish our meat, get clear of the clachan as soon as might be, and lie close in the bit wood on the sea-beach.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

This gentleman is his very particular friend, Mr.—’ ‘Mr. Bob Sawyer,’ interposed Mr. Benjamin Allen; whereupon Mr. Bob Sawyer and Mr. Benjamin Allen laughed in concert.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

She clutched me and laughingly declared I was a little savage, and my being a little savage pleased her.
— from Woman by Magdeleine Marx

He had many heartbreaking struggles and misfortunes; but at last, accompanied by Tonti, thirty Frenchmen, and a band of faithful Indians, on February 6, 1682, he set out on the Mississippi.
— from The Mentor: The Contest for North America, Vol. 1, No. 35, Serial No. 35 The Story of America in Pictures by Albert Bushnell Hart

The dull debate, The dreary unimportant question, The pressure of affairs of State, A muddled brain, a lost digestion.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 20, 1892 by Various

"Nay, weep not, little one," said d'Estrailles gently, as he drew her into his embrace, "but let us rather dream of the days when all this suffering and wrong be past, and when thou, sweet Gwennola, art my wife, and ridest with me to our château on the gay Loire, where I will give thee sunshine and mirth, beauty and laughter instead of these dreary forests and grey gloom, which seem fitting surroundings for traitor hearts and sad forebodings."
— from A Maid of Brittany: A Romance by Mabel Winifred Knowles

She answered me by a look that was a reward in itself, and seemed to imply the most heavenly offers for the future.
— from St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England by Robert Louis Stevenson

From Warrington the system has been extended to Liverpool on the one side, and Manchester, Bradford, and Leeds on the other.
— from The Post Office and Its Story An interesting account of the activities of a great government department by Edward Bennett

Back to contents [208] CHAPTER XIX A Potato Walk Dona's suggestion was adopted, and she and Marjorie began a little system of correspondence with Eric.
— from A Patriotic Schoolgirl by Angela Brazil

The baron commanded the fierce youth to be silent, and, moved by a look that he remembered to be Ferdinand’s, he said gently, “By your respect for me, I adjure you to be patient; fear not but that I will deal impartially.”
— from Tales and Stories Now First Collected by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley