When some, indignant at this, left the ranks, he stationed guards from his own contingent so that no one could leave the city.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Alexey Alexandrovitch had the highest esteem for this circle, and Anna with her special gift for getting on with everyone, had in the early days of her life in Petersburg made friends in this circle also.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I am told he governs like a gerfalcon, of which I am very glad, and my lord the duke, of course, also; and I am very thankful to heaven that I have not made a mistake in choosing him for that same government; for I would have Senora Teresa know that a good governor is hard to find in this world and may God make me as good as Sancho's way of governing.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Say, good fellow, wilt thou join my service?" "Nay, that will I not," quoth the stranger roughly.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

How Sir Gareth fought with a knight that held within his castle thirty ladies, and how he slew him.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

If this principle be a just one our attention would be directed to a provision in favor of the State governments for an annual sum of about two hundred thousand pounds; while the exigencies of the Union could be susceptible of no limits, even in imagination.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

But one was so good father sold it to get money to buy me some shoes with; and the other was so bad it fell to pieces just as soon as we hung it up.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

And then follows rush upon rush, and scrummage upon scrummage, the ball now driven through into the School-house quarters, and now into the School goal; for the School-house have not lost the advantage which the kick-off and a slight wind gave them at the outset, and are slightly “penning” their adversaries.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. STREET SCENE AT EISENBACH, SOUTHERN GERMANY From the villages and small towns is recruited sixty per cent.
— from The Iron Ration: Three Years in Warring Central Europe by George Abel Schreiner

Fruit medium, globular, light green changing to yellowish-green, dotted with small brown specks; flesh coarse-grained near centre, breaking, juicy, very sweet; good for culinary use; Jan. to Mar. Grüne langstielige Winterhirtenbirne.
— from The Pears of New York by U. P. Hedrick

It must be a great way off, but the man who never stops goes far.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

Unless some other courageous man had arisen to tear the veil away from before human life, such as it is in so-called civilised communities, and show society its own self in all its rottenness, foulness, and hypocrisy—so that on more than one occasion, shrinking guiltily from its own image, it has denounced the plain unvarnished truth as libel—there would have been no 'Nana' and no 'Pot Bouille,' no 'Assommoir,' and no 'Germinal.'
— from With Zola in England: A Story of Exile by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

“No such gude fortune,” sighed Phoebe.
— from Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

“Well, you see, sister, mea culpa , I loved the world when I was in it like my own life, and even now if I did not gnash upon myself I should grow frivolous at times.
— from Uther and Igraine by Warwick Deeping

I hesitated as to whether I should go farther in that direction, which was to the opposite side from where I had left the boat; but there was a sort of peninsula jutting out from the main part of the reef; and near the end of this I saw what I fancied to be a collection of rare shells, and I was now desirous of possessing some.
— from The Boy Tar by Mayne Reid