Karle said to Asmund, "Thou hast often said thou wast curious to see Asbjorn who killed Thorer Sel; and if I know one ship from another, that is his which is coming sailing along.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

In the year 1713 he gradually drew away from them and came under the influence of Swift, then at the height of his power in political and social life.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

Then, stabbed through and through, he flung himself above his lifeless friend, and there at last found the quiet sleep of death.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

So they called after them, and they stopped, and stood still till they came up to them; but they concluded, as they went, that not Mr. By-ends, but old Mr. Hold-the-world, should propound the question to them, because, as they supposed, their answer to him would be without the remainder of that heat that was kindled betwixt Mr. By-ends and them, at their parting a little before.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

These suspicions were not effaced by the conduct of Ferdinand, who, when examined on the subject, managed his answers in such a manner, as confirmed their conjectures, while he pretended to refute them, and at the same time acquired to himself credit for his extraordinary discretion and self-denial.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

This old man repeatedly told the governor that Cortes would now revenge himself for his having, some time ago, thrown him into prison: "Sly and artful as he is, he will be the means of ruining you, if you are not upon your guard."
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

The ships are filled from overhead, the half-burnt timbers are soaking; till all the heat is quenched, and all the hulls, but four that are lost, are rescued from destruction.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

He stood in a conspicuous place not far from the auctioneer, with a fore-finger in each side-pocket and his head thrown backward, not caring to speak to anybody, though he had been cordially welcomed as a connoiss ure by Mr. Trumbull, who was enjoying the utmost activity of his great faculties.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

I wouldn't have taken them [she throws away the handkerchief].
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

During his residence there he attracted the notice of General Scharnhorst, then at the head of the establishment; and the patronage of this distinguished officer had immense influence on his future career, and we may gather from his writings that he ever afterwards continued to entertain a high esteem for Scharnhorst.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

The only sensation I experienced was a slight tightness across the head and chest, like that felt on leaving a warm room and running quickly in frosty weather.
— from Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. by Charles Darwin

Now Miss Hill, unfortunately, was not sufficiently acquainted with the Irish idiom, to know, that to expect, in Ireland, is the same thing as to hope in England; and, when her Irish admirer said I expect, he meant only in plain English, I hope.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth

"Some time you and I'll go to see them and take Honey-Sweet, won't we?—Sarah, Sarah!
— from Honey-Sweet by Edna Henry Lee Turpin

A short time after that his friend, M. de Fontenay, who had clung to him through good and evil fortune, had to borrow a hundred louis to have him buried at Aix-la-Chapelle, where he died.
— from Anecdotal Recollections of the Congress of Vienna by La Garde-Chambonas, Auguste Louis Charles, Comte de

I answered the letter you bore me from General Fremont on yesterday, and not hearing from you during the day, I sent the answer to him by mail.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

Mr. Swordsley, no doubt, was saying to himself: “If my good parishioner here can afford to buy a motor-boat, in addition to all the other expenditures which an establishment like this must entail, I certainly need not scruple to appeal to him again for a contribution for our Galahad Club.”
— from The Choice 1916 by Edith Wharton