As she drew near, the CA IRA fired her stern guns so truly, that not a shot missed some part of the ship; and latterly, the masts were struck by every shot.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

A silly, meaningless smile played on his white, death-like lips.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

send me swich penaunce As lyketh thee, but from desesperaunce, 530 That may my goost departe awey fro thee, Thou be my sheld, for thy benignitee.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

In the first, or Rāwal, branch were Khem or Kshem Singh, the eldest son of Karan Singh, Sāmant Singh, Kumār Singh, Mathan Singh, Padam Singh, Jeth Singh, Tej Singh, Samar Singh, and Ratan Singh, all of whom reigned at Chitor; while in the Rāna branch were Rāhup, a younger son of Karan Singh, Narpat, Dinkaran, Jaskaran, Nāgpāl, Puranpāl, Prithi Pāl, Bhuvān Singh, Bhīm Singh, Jai Singh, and Lakshman Singh, who ruled at Sesoda, and called themselves Sesodias.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Dì na siya maukal sa pagkamaistru, He can’t be removed from his teaching post.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Having arrived at home safely with these, I devoted every spare moment to their perusal, and soon made such proficiency in studies of this nature as I thought sufficient for the execution of my plan.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

sǣm v. sǣ . sǣma = sēma + sǣman = +sȳman, sīeman sǣmann m. ‘ seaman ,’ pirate, viking , B . sǣmearh † m. sea-horse, ship .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

== stycce sticcian = stician ± stice m. sting, prick, puncture, stab , CP: stitch, pain in the side .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

SYN: Quiet, calm, noiseless, hushed, silent, pacific, serene, motionless, stagnant, peaceful, quiescent, tranquil, stationary.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Celestial, whether among the Thrones, or named Of them the highest; for such of shape may seem Prince above princes!
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

I have been Treharne's legal man ever since my senior partner died, as you know, and, although it isn't of course expected of me, I can't help but feel a certain responsibility for his daughter when she is thrust into such a miserable situation as this.
— from The Eddy: A Novel of To-day by Clarence Louis Cullen

Another beach city, Heyst, next appeared—the ship seeming to stand still while the shoreline marched slowly past.
— from The Spell of Flanders An Outline of the History, Legends and Art of Belgium's Famous Northern Provinces by Edward Neville Vose

Even so, even so, in undreamed strife With pulseless Law, the wife,— The sweetest wife on sweetest marriage-day,— Their soul at grapple in mid-way, Sweet to her sweet may say: [Pg 50] "I take you to my inmost heart, my true!"
— from Selected Poems of Francis Thompson by Francis Thompson

She it was who put it into the heads of so many sensible people to contend for the crown, and it was with joy that she saw them carried out to the asylum.
— from Ting-a-ling by Frank Richard Stockton

He was most happy, as it settled the principal business he had in England; the co-executors had given him full power to agree to any plan Sir Moses should propose.
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 2 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady

The Great Spirit designed that some man should possess the gift and skill in medicine, but He is pained to see a medicine man making exorbitant charges for attending the sick.
— from Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians by Elias Johnson