Then Sir Kay came unto Sir Morganore, seneschal with the King of the Hundred Knights, and smote him down, horse and man, and led the horse unto his father, Sir Ector; then Sir Ector ran unto a knight, hight Lardans, and smote horse and man down, and led the horse unto Sir Brastias, that great need had of an horse, and was greatly defoiled.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Uriah Shudal, Esq ; Richard Shuttleworth, Esq ; Theodore Smith, Esq ; Robert Smith, Esq ; James Sotheby, Esq ; Paulet St. John, Esq ; Mr. Charles Scriven.
— from The Spanish Armada, 1588 The Tapestry Hangings of the House of Lords Representing the Several Engagements Between the English and Spanish Fleets. by John Pine

The result of the investigation is to make clear the scientific importance of the steam engine: the steam engine regarded, not as the familiar drudge and commonplace servant of to-day, but in all its dignity of a thermodynamic machine, that scientific device which embodied so much of the natural philosophy of the age which first unveiled it—the seventeenth century.
— from The Evolution of Naval Armament by Frederick Leslie Robertson

Still, even the simplest engine requires a certain amount of brains to manage it properly, especially if you are to get the maximum of work out of it at the lowest cost.
— from Farm Engines and How to Run Them: The Young Engineer's Guide by James H. Stephenson

She was as good as her word, and, though the memory of it was painful to her, there is not the smallest evidence that she ever repented of having allowed the law to take its course.
— from Queen Elizabeth by Edward Spencer Beesly

The environment of man in general outline is much the same everywhere; the sun ever rises in the east and sets in the west; day and night always follow each other; the winds play gently or rend with force; the rains descend in showers or fall in floods; flowers and trees spring up, come to maturity and then die.
— from Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs by Alice C. (Alice Cunningham) Fletcher

But I have said enough to satisfy every reader, that when he began the second, (p. 314) and far the larger division of his building at Abbotsford, he must have contemplated the utmost sum it could cost him as a mere trifle in relation to the resources at his command.
— from Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

With a body at ease and a mind at rest, Burke leaned back in his chair with a long-drawn sigh, each tingling sense ecstatically responsive to every charm of light and shade and luxury.
— from The Road to Understanding by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

Tacitus describes in detail the persecution by Nero, but treats the suffering religion merely as “an execrable superstition;” while Suetonius, employing the same expression, reckons the persecution among the acts of the tyrant that were either laudable or indifferent.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

He wittily reversed the proverb " El rafyk söm el taryk " (companionship makes secure roads) by saying, " el taryk söm el rafyk " (good roads increase passenger traffic).
— from Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. by A. A. (Andrew Archibald) Paton