A single selection is given here to show how the poet adapted the story to his hearers: Then they saw, Forth and forward faring, Pharaoh's war array Gliding on, a grove of spears;--glittering the hosts!
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Thereupon, a young man called Neerbale, who had spent all his substance in gallantry, hearing that she was alive, set out in search of her and finding her, before the court
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

He took the occasion, as they stood intent, Gave her the sign, and to his vessel went.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

He had been sent there to choose a spot in which to lay the mother, and was full of the shock it gave him to see that line of little stones, telling of a past with which the good people of Sutherlandtown found it hard to associate Philemon and Agatha Webb.
— from Agatha Webb by Anna Katharine Green

It had been a "field-day," so to speak, in Gloucester Harbor, the serpent having been visible, more or less, all the morning.
— from The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886 by Various

Elizabeth asked for £40,000, but only succeeded in getting half that sum.—Chamberlain's Letters, p. 15. 1739.
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 1 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London. by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe

My embarrassment may be imagined when my client arrived at the office in a state of delirious excitement and insisted not only on inviting me to dinner, but on paying me fifty dollars for services in giving him the satisfaction of beating the tailor.
— from The Confessions of Artemas Quibble Being the Ingenuous and Unvarnished History of Artemas Quibble, Esquire, One-Time Practitioner in the New York Criminal Courts, Together with an Account of the Divers Wiles, Tricks, Sophistries, Technicalities, and Sundry Artifices of Himself and Others of the Fraternity, Commonly Yclept "Shysters" or "Shyster Lawyers" by Arthur Cheney Train

He came on a visit to Muckross when Sir Ivor Guest had the shooting, and I dined there to meet him.
— from The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent by Samuel Murray Hussey

So I gave her the slipper.
— from Enchantment by Harold MacGrath

I decided that the shortest way out of it was to have Asbury knock it down to her then and there, so I gave him the sign.
— from The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself by Cole Younger

So I gave him two soldi and another for himself and saw him scamper happily away and join a knot of brother Cupids who were playing together round a lamp-post.
— from Castellinaria, and Other Sicilian Diversions by Henry Festing Jones

But, as few villages have enough nets to make a great spread, it generally happens that several unite in a grand hunt, and divide the proceeds, the game caught in any particular net falling to the share of its owners.
— from Stories of the Gorilla Country, Narrated for Young People by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu