shew Thy saving health to us afford And lift in us renew. 8 And now what God the Lord will speak I will go strait and hear, 30 For to his people he speaks peace And to his Saints full dear, To his dear Saints he will speak peace, But let them never more Return to folly, but surcease To trespass as before. 9 Surely to such as do him fear Salvation is at hand
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

But before this, Herod and Hyrcanus went out upon the sea-shore, and earnestly desired of these ambassadors that they would neither bring ruin upon themselves, nor war upon their native country, by their rash contentions; and when they grew still more outrageous, Antony sent out armed men, and slew a great many, and wounded more of them; of whom those that were slain were buried by Hyrcanus, as were the wounded put under the care of physicians by him; yet would not those that had escaped be quiet still, but put the affairs of the city into such disorder, and so provoked Antony, that he slew those whom he had in bonds also.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Restless he roll'd around his weary bed, And all his soul on his Patroclus fed: The form so pleasing, and the heart so kind, That youthful vigour, and that manly mind, What toils they shared, what martial works they wrought, What seas they measured, and what fields they fought; All pass'd before him in remembrance dear, Thought follows thought, and tear succeeds to tear.
— from The Iliad by Homer

And anon Sir Palomides saw Sir Persides, and then he sent a squire unto him and said: Go thou to the yonder knight with the green shield and therein a lion of gold, and say him
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

I marvel, said sir Dinadan, of thee, sir Palomides, an thou haddest sir Tristram here thou wouldst do him no harm; for an a wolf and a sheep were together in a prison the wolf would suffer the sheep to be in peace.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Sargent peered askance through his slanted glasses.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

He was so ungainly, so pimply about the head, so scaly about the legs, yet so serene, so unspeakably satisfied!
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Ah! let our conscience accuse us, let our hearts be rent in twain at the thought of our sins, and then we shall not so presumptuously approach the holy sacrament."
— from History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume 3 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

The teeth serve, in fact, the same purpose as the horny spines on the tongue of the lion, or, on a small scale, of the cat.
— from Chatterbox, 1905. by Various

First he has six papers, and then he saw none but two; for "my son Lucian's" benefit, let a pin be stuck here.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

So William come in, Miss, on Monday night, to go to bed, please, Miss, and he took the short cut, not that he were allowed, Miss, or would think of taking a liberty on no account whatever, but he were that sleepy he didn't know the way to bed, so he went across the corridor for the short cut from the kitchen gallery to the servants' passage; and there he saw--he hadn't any light, Miss, and the lamps all out--Goodness me!
— from Clara Vaughan, Volume 2 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore