He wore a cap and shirt of mail; And leaned his large and wrinkled hand Upon the huge and sweeping brand Which wont of yore, in battle fray, His foeman’s limbs to shred away, As wood-knife lops the sapling spray.
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

Now will Thy spiritual ones mildly and lovingly smile upon me, if they shall read these my confessions.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

'You have only this to do. Admit me into the burying-ground at midnight; Watch while I descend into the vaults of St. Clare, lest some prying eye should observe my actions; Leave me there alone for an hour, and that life is safe which I dedicate to your pleasures.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

This is sweetly comfortable to me, because it shews me he does not repent of his condescensions to me; and it encourages me to look up to him with more satisfaction of mind, and less doubtfulness.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

This: that until he talked with thee, the seer Ne'er spoke of me as Laïus' murderer.
— from Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Sophocles

She also sent out many appealing letters, like this to her friend Mrs. Wright: Mrs. Stanton and I start for Kansas Wednesday evening, stopping at Rochester just to look at my mother and my dear sister, sick so long, and I devoting scarce an hour to her the whole year.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

They were now a score of miles at least from home, but, by resting the horse for a couple of hours at a village they had just traversed, it would be possible to get back to Casterbridge that same day, while to go much further afield would reduce them to the necessity of camping out for the night, “and that will make a hole in a sovereign,” said Farfrae.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Kvashin, who smelt of madeira and liqueurs and who could scarcely breathe from repletion, complained of being hungry, forced himself to munch and kept on talking of the meeting of Shipunov's and Ivantchikov's creditors, while his wife and mother-in-law could not take their eyes off his face, and both thought: "How clever and kind he is!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

With such vast quantities of easy burning pine all around them, and Amos just wild to always take care of the fire, which he dearly loved, of course, they could not resist the temptation; and soon a crackling blaze was sending up its cheery song, such as has bolstered up the spirits of many a lonely camper all over the known world; for the fire is certainly one of man’s finest servants; but like some other things, a very bad master, once it is allowed to have its own head.
— from Camp Mates in Michigan; or, with Pack and Paddle in the Pine Woods by St. George Rathborne

Yesterday, J. and I set off to Blacklock’s (American Consul) who lives not far from that little village I have so often mentioned as lying between us and Apia.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 by Robert Louis Stevenson

He should know something of mechanics, a little about politics, commerce, and metaphysics; and in addition to all this, he should know how to make something.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll

The sounds of merriment and laughter were heard.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 6, December 1852 by Various

While you were walking in the darkness, did a great electric light suddenly shine out, making all light about you?
— from The Boyhood of Jesus by Anonymous

Although a poor farmer's son, he soon won the position of a teacher at the Beaumont Military School of Mathematics, and later at the Ecole Militaire of Paris.
— from A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 (of 3) by Edwin Emerson

According to the statements of the manufacturers, Bengué’s Analgesic Balm contains “menthol, salicylate of methyl and lanolin.”
— from The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2 by Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)

long, slender, equal, or slightly tapering upward; finely striate, minutely scurvy or mealy, at least when young; hollow, white.
— from The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

Instead of cream, two glasses of sherry or Madeira, a large spoonful of ketchup, and some cayenne may be used for the seasoning.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

"Horrid how?" "Oh, some other man, and letters in the papers, and Mr. Pope kept both the children!
— from The Story of Julia Page by Kathleen Thompson Norris