`By god,' quod she, `of Ector that is sooth; Of Troilus the same thing trowe I; For, dredelees, men tellen that he dooth 185 In armes day by day so worthily, And bereth him here at hoom so gentilly To every wight, that al the prys hath he Of hem that me were levest preysed be.' `Ye sey right sooth, y-wis,' quod Pandarus; 190 `For yesterday, who-so hadde with him been, He might have wondred up-on Troilus; For never yet so thikke a swarm of been Ne fleigh, as Grekes fro him gonne fleen; And thorugh the feld, in everi wightes ere, 195 Ther nas no cry but "Troilus is there!"
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

It was true, she was accompanied by her brother, Norman, and it was true that they tried to ignore him and that Norman attempted to wave him aside.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

And so when he discerned Mark to have so much sense, and to conduct himself so well and beseemingly, he sent him on an ambassage of his, to a country which was a good six months' journey distant.[NOTE 2] The young gallant executed his commission well and with discretion.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

And so will all but he who heart-work knows."
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

Also Sir Segwarides' men rode after their master, whom they found lying in the field sore wounded, and brought him home on his shield, and there he lay long or that he were whole, but at the last he recovered.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

p. 142, 143,) His brother Salem was accompanied by his wife, the first Arabian woman (A.D. 680) who passed the Oxus: she borrowed, or rather stole, the crown and jewels of the princess of the Sogdians, (p. 231, 232.)]
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

He placed his paws on it and said, “What a beautiful head!
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

Now Ascalon was strongly walled about, but had almost no assistance to be relied on [near them], for the garrison consisted of one cohort of footmen, and one troop of horsemen, whose captain was Antonius.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Out of this general background, like mountains from a plain, stood out a few episodes of peculiar vividness, but of no apparent significance—in one she sat on a rough sea-wall playing with innumerable tiny white shells while a bird hovered over her crying, as if trying to induce her to follow it seaward, but before she could do so the female figure had appeared, frantically scolding and caressing, and had carried her, struggling and kicking, back to a cot.
— from Jinny the Carrier by Israel Zangwill

Eric ran forward to the prow, and with him Skallagrim, and called aloud to a great man who stood upon the ship to starboard, wearing a black helm with raven’s wings: “Who art thou that bars the sea against me?”
— from Eric Brighteyes by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Matveof, it seemed, was arrested by his creditors, who feared that, since he had taken leave at Court, they would never be paid.
— from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer by Jonathan Swift

When he first emerges into the night air, nothing around him is still or steady; nothing around him shows like what it is; he only knows that he stands with a bare head in the midst of a blood-red whirl, waiting to be struggled with, and to struggle to the death.
— from The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens

He was helped to a seat by one of the party; Norah Ryan procured some water and bathed his face, rubbing her fingers tenderly over the sore.
— from The Rat-Pit by Patrick MacGill

He grew suddenly white, and brought his clenched hand heavily down on the table.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various

But this has been wholly changed in recent years by the sympathy which John Bull showed during the Spanish war, and by his far-seeing magnanimity shown on a hundred occasions.
— from The Americans by Hugo Münsterberg

“She was angry because he would not go to confess, Sir.”
— from Leon Roch: A Romance, vol. 1 (of 2) by Benito Pérez Galdós

She wore a brilliant hued bodice and a narrow gold band passed across her forehead.
— from Wenonah's Stories for Children by Warren Proctor

She was adamant; but he, too, through all his embarrassment, showed no sign of yielding; and when at last he left her nothing had been decided—the whole formation of the Government was hanging in the wind.
— from Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey