Not even the well-built ship can carry him.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

“Perhaps she could coax him not to rent his fences.”
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

We may therefore picture her in short, striped, pleated skirt, tight at the waist but flowing out wide at the bottom over white stockings, a little silken cape covering her queenly young bosom, without concealing its fine lines, her head surmounted by a rose-trimmed bonnet with black ribbons, clasping the arm of her “friend” with sparkling eyes and cheeks as rosy as her headdress.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Let them come, though they were as many, as the Signor's castle could hold; I would shew the knaves what fighting is.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

And therefore a woman who has been violated by the sin of another, and without any consent of her own, has no cause to put herself to death; much less has she cause to commit suicide in order to avoid such violation, for in that case she commits certain homicide to prevent a crime which is uncertain as yet, and not her own.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The haughtiness of his temper gave way to this humiliating proof of the hopelessness of his condition; and while the Dhabhai (foster-brother) counselled escape by water to the mountains, whence he might gain Mandalgarh, the Salumbar chief confessed his inability to offer any advice
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

I feel sure that if Sir Charles could have spoken with me before his death he would have warned me against bringing this, the last of the old race, and the heir to great wealth, to that deadly place.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

General Despinois treated him with scant ceremony, charging him at once as an impostor.
— from Mysteries of Police and Crime, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Arthur Griffiths

The speck came nearer, and we recognized a woman with a bludgeon coming towards us as fast as her skees could carry her.
— from The Land of the Long Night by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

When they were snoring in satisfactory chorus, Captain Holstrom slid their hatch over and barred it so as to guard against a surprise by peepers.
— from Where Your Treasure Is: Being the Personal Narrative of Ross Sidney, Diver by Holman Day

Black Bob (I am told), in proposing a vote of thanks to him, somewhat cruelly called him "a cool, honest and straightforward lecturer."
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 107, December 22, 1894 by Various

Save when he lost his temper, which happened not infrequently, she could not put him in the wrong, and she often felt that it would be easier for her if she could charge him with neglect, or had something to forgive him.
— from By Right of Purchase by Harold Bindloss

I was not a little surprised to find Sir Alan with only the Magnificent and Russell, Sir Charles Cotton having been detached to the Mediterranean; thus I fear we shall be deprived sharing in the victory we hoped to obtain over the enemy's fleet.
— from Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I by Ross, John, Sir

none till she could conduct her own establishment; that time would never arrive, for she never could order any thing but mutton-chops and mashed potatoes.
— from The Manoeuvring Mother (vol. 1 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady