All this battle saw Sir Bors de Ganis and his three fellows, and then they saw well it was the same knight that jousted with them at the bridge; then they took their horses and rode unto Sir Tristram, and praised him and thanked him of his good deeds, and they all desired Sir Tristram to go with them to their lodging; and he said: Nay, he would not go to no lodging.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Or let him that is melancholy calculate spherical triangles, square a circle, cast a nativity, which howsoever some tax, I say with [3369] Garcaeus, dabimus hoc petulantibus ingeniis , we will in some cases allow: or let him make an ephemerides , read Suisset the calculator's works, Scaliger de emendatione temporum , and Petavius his adversary, till he understand them, peruse subtle Scotus and Suarez's metaphysics, or school divinity, Occam, Thomas, Entisberus, Durand, &c.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

" Bruce rose to his feet and stretched himself, an after-supper operation that always preceded his announcement that he was going to turn in.
— from The Grizzly King: A Romance of the Wild by James Oliver Curwood

Windham said a few words to them, and, placing himself at their head, away they went cheering, and soon cleared the streets of the enemy.
— from Recollections of a Military Life by Adye, John, Sir

I have been thinking, Allegra," putting his arm through hers, and pacing up and down the terrace, with the bright expanse of sea in front of them, and at their back the great curtain of hills encircling and defending them from the wintry world—"I have been thinking that Venice would be a charming place for you and me to spend next summer in—if—if—you meant six months instead of twelve for my probation—as I really think you must have done.
— from All along the River: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

In October 1834 Peel, with his wife and his daughter Julia, went to Italy; they had been about ten days in Rome, when a messenger, who found Sir Robert at a ball of the Duchess of Torlonia, arrived post-haste from the King, asking Sir Robert to return without loss of time and put himself at the head of the Government.
— from Wives of the Prime Ministers, 1844-1906 by Lucy Masterman

They that awated prevented him, as thei had bein ignorant, till that he came in; and than begane thei to demand whare he had bein?
— from The Works of John Knox, Volume 1 (of 6) by John Knox

The Duke, who was longing for these tidings, readily believed them, and embracing the ambassador, promised him anything that he might ask.
— from The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

He applauded, and loved him, too, and protected him, and taught him mischief.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

and ordering the reserve to advance, placed himself at their head; but at the moment Rupert and the cavalry reappeared; and, though they had withdrawn from Keynton to avoid, the approach of Hampden with the rear of the parliamentary army, their presence restored the hopes of the royalists and damped the ardour of their opponents.
— from The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 by Hilaire Belloc

As the fresh toll of the bell announced that another prayer had ascended to heaven in their behalf and for their success and protection, these women were encouraged and became strong to do all that they felt had been committed to them.
— from Why and How : a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in Canada by Addie Chisholm