VI A shrilling trompet sownded from on hye, And unto battaill bad them selves addresse: Their shining shieldes about their wrestes they tye, And burning blades about their heads do blesse, 50 The instruments of wrath and heavinesse: With greedy force each other doth assayle, And strike so fiercely, that they do impresse Deepe dinted furrowes in the battred mayle; The yron walles to ward their blowes are weak and fraile.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

No, no, a man, a woman, that is blessed with a broken heart, is so far off from getting by that esteem with the world, that they are but burdens and trouble houses wherever they are or go.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

“They are—” began Blake, and then he pulled Joe down beside him in the bushes.
— from The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast Or, Showing Up the Perils of the Deep by Victor Appleton

Though consisting mainly of biotite granite, these later intrusions pass by intermediate stages into diorite, as in the area between Balmoral and the head-waters of the Gairn.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Then his memory would conjure up a tuft of brown hair and a single white, thin hand over a coverlet, and he would feel, as we have all felt, that if we do not live and know each other after death, then indeed we are tricked and betrayed by all the highest hopes and subtlest intuitions of our nature.
— from Beyond the City by Arthur Conan Doyle

"Some years ago I trekked across the Kalahari, by way of Lake Ngami, to Damaraland, and traded and brought back a thousand head of cattle.
— from The Gold Kloof by H. A. (Henry Anderson) Bryden

He had hewn timber and built boats, and tanned hides and made shoes.
— from For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke

Then bigged hae they a bonny boat, And they hae set her to the sea; But a mile before they reached the shore, Around them she gar'd the red fire flee.
— from Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 3 (of 3) Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Walter Scott