In words borrowed from the Greek an unfamiliar sequence of consonants was so lightened; as, mina , mina , for *mna ( μνᾶ ); and in Old Latin drachuma (Plaut.) for later drachma , drachma ( δραχμή ); techina , trick , from Greek τέχνη ; Tecumēssa for Tecmēssa ( Τέκμησσα ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

And among them he saw his brother's shield, Sir Lionel, and many more that he knew that were his fellows of the Round Table, the which grieved his heart, and promised to revenge his brother.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

"They shall not deprive me of mine, exalted and worthy princess," said Don Quixote, "however great and unexampled those which I shall endure in your service may be; and here I confirm anew the boon I have promised you, and I swear to go with you to the end of the world until I find myself in the presence of your fierce enemy, whose haughty head I trust by the aid of my arm to cut off with the edge of this—I will not say good sword, thanks to Gines de Pasamonte who carried away mine"—(this he said between his teeth, and then continued), "and when it has been cut off and you have been put in peaceful possession of your realm it shall be left to your own decision to dispose of your person as may be most pleasing to you; for so long as my memory is occupied, my will enslaved, and my understanding enthralled by her-I say no more—it is impossible for me for a moment to contemplate marriage, even with a Phoenix."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

With which he dropped into a chair and sat looking at Madame Merle; bent forward a little, his elbows on the edge of the arms and his hands interlocked.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

“You speak like a man, Mathias,” said the King of Thunes.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

The bubble scarcely left a microscopic moisture behind it.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Ah, bear me with thee, smoothly 1 borne, Dip forward under starry light, And move me to my marriage-morn, And round again to happy night.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

“This, sirs,” continued Dorothea, “is my story; it only remains to tell you that of all the attendants I took with me from my kingdom I have none left except this well-bearded squire, for all were drowned in a great tempest we encountered when in sight of port; and he and I came to land on a couple of planks as if by a miracle; and indeed the whole course of my life is a miracle and a mystery as you may have observed; and if I have been over minute in any respect or not as precise as I ought, let it be accounted for by what the licentiate said at the beginning of my tale, that constant and excessive troubles deprive the sufferers of their memory.” “They shall not deprive me of mine, exalted and worthy princess,” said Don Quixote, “however great and unexampled those which I shall endure in your service may be; and here I confirm anew the boon I have promised you, and I swear to go with you to the end of the world until I find myself in the presence of your fierce enemy, whose haughty head I trust by the aid of my arm to cut off with the edge of this—I will not say good sword, thanks to Gines de Pasamonte who carried away mine"—(this he said between his teeth, and then continued), “and when it has been cut off and you have been put in peaceful possession of your realm it shall be left to your own decision to dispose of your person as may be most pleasing to you; for so long as my memory is occupied, my will enslaved, and my understanding enthralled by her—I say no more—it is impossible for me for a moment to contemplate marriage, even with a Phoenix.” The last words of his master about not wanting to marry were so disagreeable to Sancho that raising his voice he exclaimed with great irritation: “By my oath, Senor Don Quixote, you are not in your right senses; for how can your worship possibly object to marrying such an exalted princess as this?
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I slept little, as men may guess, thinking on the poor lassies; and sometimes also on the torture in the prison, and the death on the scaffold.
— from The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

"You would feed butterflies on brawn, teach the bluebird to scream like a macaw, make the trembling, silver-leaved white birches all over into oaks."
— from The Cassowary; What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Stanley Waterloo

Poor Hetty, my fellow slave, was very kind to me, and I used to call her my Aunt; but she led a most miserable life, and her death was hastened (at least the slaves all believed and said so,) by the dreadful chastisement she received from my master during her pregnancy.
— from The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave by Mary Prince

She was pale, but beyond a swift look at me made no sign connecting me, either with the wreck or the rescue.
— from The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive by Emerson Hough

Another silence, longer and more miserable, was broken by Cyril's suddenly saying, "I don't want to frighten you girls, but I believe it's beginning with me already.
— from Five Children and It by E. (Edith) Nesbit

On the night of the dinner-party at Hampton, the carriage—to wit, Mr Buddy’s fly—had no sooner departed than Markes announced her intention of going next door to see Lady Anna Maria Morton’s maid; at which cook grunted, and, being left alone, proceeded to take out a basket from the dresser drawer, and seated herself to have what she called a couple of hours’ good darn.
— from A Double Knot by George Manville Fenn

A root which is bifurcated and otherwise shaped like a man, may be sold as high as $10.00 an ounce; a recent secretary of the Chinese Legation explains this on the ground of being valued as a curio; but the curio is finally made into a decoction and swallowed, and the swallower evidently hopes that the fantastic shape of the root will make the medicine more potent.
— from Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants A Book of Valuable Information for Growers as Well as Collectors of Medicinal Roots, Barks, Leaves, Etc. by A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding

The politeness of this strange lady affects me more than the churlishness of the host.
— from Minna Von Barnhelm by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing