Not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror; because, at every new incident, your fortitude was to be called forth, and your courage exhibited; because danger and death surrounded, and these dangers you were to brave and overcome.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy in orderly array and on the point of marching to the attack, I should say: "Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will."
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

s. S; beþ , buð , byð , bið , S; beis , S3; bes , S2; beoþ , pl. S;
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

keep off, stave off, ward off; obviate; avert, antevert|; turn aside, draw off, prevent, forefend, nip in the bud; retard, slacken, check, let; counteract, countercheck[obs3]; preclude, debar, foreclose, estop[Law]; inhibit &c. 761; shackle &c. (restrain) 751; restrict. obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock; block, block up; choke off; belay, barricade; block the way, bar the way, stop the way; forelay[obs3]; dam up &c. (close) 261; put on the brake &c. n.; scotch the wheel, lock the wheel, put a spoke in the wheel; put a stop to &c. 142; traverse, contravene; interrupt, intercept; oppose &c. 708; hedge in, hedge round; cut off; inerclude|. interpose, interfere, intermeddle &c. 682.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

My flesh be no more heard, it will obtrude This lethargie: so should my gratitude, My vowes of gratitude should so be broke; 80 Which can no more be, then Donnes vertues spoke
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Accordingly, he, perceiving that the multitude would not be quiet unless they had a comfortable answer from him, gave order that the soldier should be brought, and drawn through those that required to have him punished, to execution, which being done, the Jews went their ways.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

'We shall soon be beyond the walls,' said Du Pont softly to Emily, 'support yourself a little longer, Madam, and all will be well.'
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Nor is it surprising to find that two years later the mayor and aldermen declined a similar invitation from Sir Francis North to attend his "feast" at the [pg 443] Temple, more especially as another disturbance was threatened if the sword should be borne up before his lordship.
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 2 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London. by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe

The women and children were deemed sufficiently secure by being fastened to each other with ropes and iron rings round their necks.
— from Black Ivory by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The hillsides present merely a series of steep slopes broken by protruding masses of rock.
— from Somerset by J. H. (Joseph Henry) Wade

The Arabian horse being the pride of the Bedouin, we were not surprised to find much attention paid to the manufacture of saddles, saddle bags, bridles and trappings, only they were for the most part made of wool and cotton rather than of leather.
— from The Old World and Its Ways Describing a Tour Around the World and Journeys Through Europe by William Jennings Bryan

Then taking a plunge in the deep, swift stream, Buster began his long swim.
— from Buster the Big Brown Bear by George Ethelbert Walsh

My mother had succeeded in arranging that my two sisters should be baptized with me—Jeanne, who was then six years old, and Régina, who was not three, but who had been taken as a boarder at the convent with the idea that her presence might cheer me up a little.
— from My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt