The news that Robin Hood had come back again to dwell in Sherwood as of old spread like wildfire all over the countryside, so that ere a se'ennight had passed nearly all of his old yeomen had gathered about him again.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

In various West European authorities, however, it is distinctly stated that Sievers conducted the ships to England, and in a review of Bering's life published by the Admiralty in 1882, it is stated that Bering was in 1711 appointed to conduct the ship Munker from the Sea of Azov to the Baltic, and as the Admiralty would hardly in a condensed report have taken notice of plans which had never been carried out, it seems most probable that Berch has been incorrectly informed.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

By land or sea, in field or wave, What can withstand this earl brave? All fly before his fiery hand— God save the earl, and keep the land.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

“How I wished I had known her, seen her, the woman who had selected this exquisite and rare object!
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

meat now forms our food prinsipally as we reserve our flour parched meal and corn as much as possible for the rocky mountains which we are shortly to enter, and where from the indhan account game is not very abundant.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Thus our mind can only be said to endure, and its existence can only be defined by a fixed time, in so far as it involves the actual existence of the body.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

A prosperous gale brought the ship to England, and this traitorous, persecuting rebel was committed to prison, where he remained a considerable [298] time, obstinately objecting to recant his anti-christian spirit, or admit of queen Elizabeth's supremacy.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

In the Calkin patent (the Phylax device illustrated at the top of this page) the "art" consists in controlling the flow of the boiling water by means of the number and spacing of the holes in the water-spreader, so as to restrict the volume and the speed, to effect a quick initial extraction; and then, by means of a new spacing of holes in the infuser, retarding the drip "to attain a prolonged extraction of the tannin and other elements of slow extraction and combining the liquids obtained during the initial and subsequent stages of the brew for attaining a balanced liquid extract."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

White men have been known to encourage slaves to escape, and then—to get the reward—they have kidnapped them, and returned them to their masters.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

One of my early recollections is of a party of Indian women, on piebald ponies, bringing fascinating heart-shaped cakes of maple sugar to exchange at the farm for fresh meat.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work by Mary Rogers Miller

Some four or five individuals, who were not at first known, were subjected to examination, and only allowed to remain on stating that they were, and being recognized as, members of the dishonest fraternity; and before the proceedings of the evening commenced the question was very carefully put, and repeated several times, whether any one was in the room of whom others entertained doubts as to who he was.
— from Reform and Politics Part 2 from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII by John Greenleaf Whittier

Cæsar had watched with intelligent attention the movements of his masters; at this moment he placed his forepaws upon the grave, smelt the earth, and then gave two lugubrious howls.
— from The Pearl of the Andes: A Tale of Love and Adventure by Gustave Aimard

[908] Thomas Shakerly, the Cardinal of Ferrara's organist, sent him budgets of news not less regularly than the secretary of the Duke of Savoy's ambassador at Venice supplied the English agent copies of all the most important letters his master received.
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

I remember—worn and weary of the long, long years of care, When the frost of time was making early harvest of my hair— I remember, wrecked and hopeless of a rest beneath the sky, My resolve to quit the country, and to seek the East, and die.
— from The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 1 by James Whitcomb Riley

But this was of brief duration, and signs that it was destined speedily to end appeared when men of wealth and social prominence began to show themselves at the hotel with Braine, and to seek presentation to herself in her private parlor.
— from Juggernaut: A Veiled Record by Dolores Marbourg

A faint reek of cigars and lavender-water not smelt since that early autumn night six months ago, when she had called him 'the limit.'
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

The notes seem to express an almost frenzied access of human sorrow!
— from With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train by Ernest Nathaniel Bennett

Moreover, it should be remembered that France at that day was a more formidable state than England, a more dangerous enemy, and, as it was believed, a more efficient protector.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley