“O son of Brahmá,” thus cried she, “Why hast thou thus forsaken me, That the king's men, before thy face, Bear off thy servant from her place?”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Eldest son of Bell Lloyd, of Crogen yr Edeirnion, co. Merioneth, by Anne, dau. of George Anson, of Orgrave, co. Stafford.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

Sure of being killed by Athos, it may easily be understood that the young man was not very uneasy about Porthos.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Do not think me too ridiculous if, in spite of being five or six years older than you, I have not thrown off all feelings of self-respect, or trodden under my feet all reserve and propriety; in one word, if I have kept some prejudices, there are a few which in my opinion ought never to be forgotten.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The Bōya priest gets himself shaved at about midnight, sacrifices a sheep or buffalo, mixes its blood with rice, and distributes the rice thus prepared in small balls throughout the village.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

But as to the plan of Shinar, in the country of Babylonia, Hestiaeus mentions it, when he says thus: "Such of the priests as were saved, took the sacred vessels of Jupiter Enyalius, and came to Shinar of Babylonia.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Also upon the hill that I spake of before, where our Lord fasted forty days, a two mile long from Galilee, is a fair hill and an high, where the enemy the fiend bare our Lord the third time to tempt him, and shewed him all the regions of the world and said, Hec omnia tibi dabo , si cadens adoraveris me ; that is to say, ‘All this shall I give thee, if thou fall and worship me.’
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Not one of these instances therefore can be said to break in upon my rest.—But there is an instance, which I own puts me off my guard, and that is, when I see one born for great actions, and what is still more for his honour, whose nature ever inclines him to good
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

He looked with an owner’s eye at the peace of the evening, at the river, at the houses, at the everlasting life of the forests, at the life of the old mankind, at the secrets of the land, at the pride of his own heart; but it was they that possessed him and made him their own to the innermost thought, to the slightest stir of blood, to his last breath.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

His Dr. Wentworth is a bore, and his daughter Rose, the heroine of the story, is a species of bluestocking, and neither lovely nor lovable.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

Troubled by Stewart’s constant requests to be allowed to make offensive movements against the French, which did not enter into his own plans [8] , and dreading the consequences of his enterprise, the Commander-in-Chief superseded him, by sending over Beresford to take the charge of all the forces on the Alemtejo bank of the Tagus (December 30).
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 4, Dec. 1810-Dec. 1811 Massena's Retreat, Fuentes de Oñoro, Albuera, Tarragona by Charles Oman

Put a little gruel and milk in it, and to-morrow morning set it out under the steps of Bollnäs cottage."
— from The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf

Gravely, Mrs. Cartwright extracted a dollar from her silver purse, and made the gypsy sign on Bab’s outstretched hand.
— from The Automobile Girls at Newport; Or, Watching the Summer Parade by Laura Dent Crane

There was a quick flash, a sheet of flame, a deafening report, then the sound of bursting shells and cries of alarm as for an instant the city walls, the harbor, and the vessels were lighted up by the blaze, and then—darkness and silence.
— from The Boys of 1812 and Other Naval Heroes by James Russell Soley

The demoralizing effect of commercialism upon artists themselves is too well known to require more than a reminder; hasty work for the sake of money supplants careful work for the sake of beauty; whole arts, like that of oriental rug weaving, are thereby threatened with extinction; and, instead of producing spontaneous art that would express themselves, people allow themselves to be merely entertained by things supplied to them, nasty and cheap—folk art disappears.
— from The Principles of Aesthetics by De Witt H. (De Witt Henry) Parker

The inside of the cavity is lined with a few leaves and scraps of bark on which five to seven eggs, boldly marked with reddish brown, are laid.
— from Birds of Britain by J. Lewis (John Lewis) Bonhote

As a mere Cookery-book, mine must submit to be placed in a lower rank than some others, because I do not profess to bring to light discoveries in the culinary art, neither do I design to favour epicurism.
— from The English Housekeeper: Or, Manual of Domestic Management Containing advice on the conduct of household affairs and practical instructions concerning the store-room, the pantry, the larder, the kitchen, the cellar, the dairy; the whole being intended for the use of young ladies who undertake the superintendence of their own housekeeping by Anne Cobbett

v. 325. —— Angelo, a Venetian, scholar of Balestra.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 6 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century (6 volumes) by Luigi Lanzi

“It’s the soul of business—and traveling, too, you’ll find.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 6, June 1850 by Various