Rank, fortune, wit, talent, acquired knowledge, and liberal accomplishments, with beauty of person, vigorous health, and constitutional hardihood,—all these advantages, elevated by the habits and sympathies of noble birth and national character, are supposed to have combined in Don Juan, so as to give him the means of carrying into all its practical consequences the doctrine of a godless nature, as the sole ground and efficient cause not only of all things, events, and appearances, but likewise of all our thoughts, sensations, impulses and actions.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And so the woful knight told her how his master and lord was betrayed through a knight and lady, and how he will never arise out of his bed till he be dead.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

In answer to which I assured his honour, “that in all points out of their own trade, they were usually the most ignorant and stupid generation among us, the most despicable in common conversation, avowed enemies to all knowledge and learning, and equally disposed to pervert the general reason of mankind in every other subject of discourse as in that of their own profession.”
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

I had always been pretty good at mechanical things and knew a little about it.
— from The Visioning: A Novel by Susan Glaspell

No, nor even the minor canons; their anticipations, keen as long abstinence from such enjoyments could make them, had yet fallen far short of the scene presented to their gaze upon entering the Deanery garden.
— from For the Cause by Stanley John Weyman

To that distinguished zoologist, whose extensive and intimate acquaintance with the animal kingdom at large, and particularly with its feathered tribes, is universally acknowledged, and to other leading Members of the Society to which he devotes his talents and his time, a work like the present appeared not ill adapted to advance the good cause in which they are engaged, the diffusion of knowledge.
— from The Tower Menagerie Comprising the natural history of the animals contained in that establishment; with anecdotes of their characters and history. by Edward Turner Bennett

From every tree, and knoll, and ledge, and hillock, there were volleys of musketry, and flashes of artillery.
— from Following the Flag, from August 1861 to November 1862, with the Army of the Potomac by Charles Carleton Coffin

On the third day we caught a big trout and killed a loon and a wolverine, the latter after a most exciting chase on a long point.
— from The Barren Ground of Northern Canada by Warburton Pike

She was as sweet and pure a woman as I ever knew, and had her wishes been horses, she would have sold them and kept (and looked after) a minister herself.
— from Auld Licht Idyls by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

But for long; the pirate wore and fired his bow chasers at the now flying Agra , split one of the carronades in two, and killed a Lascar, and made a hole in the foresail.
— from Hard Cash by Charles Reade

Ofeig took the outer part lying between the rivers Thvera and Kalfa, and lived at Ofeigsstad near Steinsholt, while Thormod took the eastern part, living at Skaptaholt.
— from The Saga of Grettir the Strong: Grettir's Saga by Unknown

Looks first at Jem , then at Kitty , and lastly at Sir William . )
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 05, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

"Oh mamma, mamma!" sighed Fanny again and again, and, clasped in each other's arms, the mother and daughter wept happy tears, and kissed and laughed, and then broke into tears again.
— from Miser Farebrother: A Novel (vol. 3 of 3) by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon