The last Day of July , our Rovers with the Vessels last taken, left Delaware Bay, and sailed to Cape Fear River, where they staid too long for their Safety, for the Pyrate Sloop which they now new named the Royal James , proved very leaky, so that they were obliged to remain here almost two Months, to refit and repair their Vessel: They took in this River a small Shallop, which they ripped up to mend the Sloop, and retarded the further Prosecution of their Voyage, as before mentioned, till the News came to Carolina , of a Pyrate Sloop’s being there to carreen with her Prizes.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

I knew him not, nor no more did Sir Gawaine, nor his brethren; but sithen it is so, said the king, that he is thus gone from us all, we must shape a remedy to find him.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Sancho took comfort at this, dried his tears, suppressed his sobs, and returned thanks for the kindness shown him by Don Quixote.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

It had an enormous sale, and ran through fifty editions soon after publication.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

From the captain of these chasseurs, M. Ribot soon after received the following letter.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Her beauty, consisting more in the expressive animation of the countenance, than a set of features, was in its meridian; her manner soothing and tender; an angelic smile played about her mouth, which was small and delicate; she wore her hair (which was of an ash color, and uncommonly beautiful) with an air of negligence that made her appear still more interesting; she was short, and rather thick for her height, though by no means disagreeably so; but there could not be a more lovely face, a finer neck, or hands and arms more exquisitely formed.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"I have already mentioned that as well as the official crown of England, which alone I have just been describing, there has often been a second or State crown, and this, although it has in general design followed the pattern of the official crown, has been much more elaborately ornamented, and in it has been set and reset the few historic gems possessed by our nation.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

"Do not be guided entirely by me on a subject so important," she said, after recalling those families to his mind, whose daughters had been placed there; "make inquiries of all who know Mrs. Douglas, and see her yourself before you quite decide.
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 1 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar

9 For You, O God, caused him to fall asleep, and took a bone from his side, and restored the flesh in the place of it, by Your divine power.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

In surprise the diplomat broke the seal and read the following formal words: “ His Majesty the King commands to private audience the Honourable Hubert Waldron, M.V.O., this evening and immediately ,” followed by the date.
— from Her Royal Highness: A Romance of the Chancelleries of Europe by William Le Queux

The extremely long tail-feathers of the male widow-birds ( Vidua ) of Southern Africa render “their flight heavy;” but as soon as these are cast off they fly as well as the females.
— from The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. II (1st Edition) by Charles Darwin

We must further put to the credit of the fifteenth century the remarkable English version of the Gesta Romanorum , and many more versions by Caxton, such as The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye , The Life of Jason , Eneydos (which is Virgil’s Æneid in the form of a prose romance), The Golden Legend or Lives of Saints, and Reynard the Fox .
— from English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat

I’ll take it like a shot, and raise the freight rates on soap if Philip will let me.”
— from The Speculations of John Steele by Robert Barr

“At hand, sir, and ready to follow you through thick and thin.” “’Tis well!” said the trooper, riding up to his men; then, speaking a few words of encouragement, he led them down the valley at a rate but little less rapid than his approach.
— from The Spy: Condensed for use in schools by James Fenimore Cooper

They understood their might over life, and good-naturedly exulted, looking at the blinded houses, the motionless dead machines, the dumbfounded police, the closed, ever-hungry jaws of the shops and restaurants, the frightened faces, the humble figures of those persons who had never learned to work, but only to eat much, and who therefore considered themselves the best blood in the city.
— from The Spy: The Story of a Superfluous Man by Maksim Gorky

It was really the man himself now, normally scared and repentant; the frightened, overfed pensioner on his wife's bounty; not the human beast maddened by fear and dissipation, half stunned, half panic-stricken, driven by sheer terror into a rôle which even he shrank from—had shrunk from all these years.
— from The Fighting Chance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

I got a skunk, a rabbit, two frogs and three snakes out and a couple of things so far gone I couldn’t tell ’em.
— from The Triumph of Virginia Dale by John Francis