They pass on with success; kill Rhesus, with several of his officers, and seize the famous horses of that prince, with which they return in triumph to the camp.
— from The Iliad by Homer

As you heard, she avouched that she had not a single gossip who had come to her husband a maid and added that she knew right well how many and what manner tricks married women yet played their husbands.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

“Sir knight,” replied Sir Lancelot, “I never yet smote a fallen man.”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

"If only you knew how pleasant it is to hear you!" said Kovrin, rubbing his hands with satisfaction.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

royal mark; kynemerk , S. Kine-riche , sb. kingdom, rule, MD; cynerice , S.—AS. cyne-ríce .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

I did not quite like the tone of his voice, but at that moment a smart knock reached our ears, and looking out of the window we perceived the two detectives waiting for us below.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

Si Pulut nama-nya usar, Berdĕrei daun sulasi: Aku tutop hati yang besar, Aku gantong lidah yang fasik, Jantong-’kau sudah ’ku gantong, Hati-’kau sudah ’ku rantei, Rantei Allah, rantei Muhammad, Rantei Baginda Rasul Allah!
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

She kept repeating: “My husband—you say—” “I say that he has disappeared with your—your capital—that's all!”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

So Kennedy, rising at the call of time from the bed on which he sat, came up to the scratch warily.
— from The Head of Kay's by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

'You are in your right, Luitpold,' said King Richard.
— from The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Hewlett

The island, he says, is so large that "those in the maritime districts never hunted in the interior, and those in the interior had never seen the sea." Such was the scanty knowledge regarding India communicated to Europe by those who had followed the footsteps of conquest into that remote region; and although eighteen centuries elapsed from the death of Alexander the Great before another European power sought to establish its dominion in the East, a new passion had been early implanted, the cultivation of which was in the highest degree favourable to the acquisition and diffusion of geographical knowledge.
— from Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

A doubt of some kind remained, and though, in consideration of the manifold duties that pressed upon me, I relentlessly put it aside, I could not help its lingering in my mind, darkening my pleasures, and throwing a cloud over my work and the operations of my mind.
— from The Mill Mystery by Anna Katharine Green

You just send Keith right along, and trust me for the rest.
— from Dawn by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

The South Kensington rules are as follows:— I. The courses of instruction pursued in the school have for their object the systematic training of teachers, male and female, in the practice of Art, and in the knowledge of its scientific principles, with a view to qualifying them as teachers of Schools of Art competent to develop the application of art to the common uses of life, and to the requirements of trade and manufactures.
— from How Women May Earn a Living by Mercy Grogan

Count Reynaurd and Pierrot dismounted at the palace gate, and were led into the great hall where sat King René, wearing a blue robe
— from Troubadour Tales by Evaleen Stein

"The matter of the words was that," said Humphrey; "yet I do think the slaves subjoined that if your lordship knew not who sent the gift, your lordship would soon know right well.
— from A Legend of Reading Abbey by Charles MacFarlane