There lived the keeper Ignat, an old man of seventy, who was always coughing and talking to himself; at night he was usually asleep, and by day he wandered about the forest with a single-barrelled gun, whistling to the hares.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I began to have a notion he was too much for me.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

A prefix answering to Circum Amaethiad, n. husbandry Amaethiaeth, n. tillage Amaethol, a. husbandry Amaethu, v. to husband Amaethwriaeth, n. husbandry Amaethwr, Ainaethydd, n. cultivator, agriculturist Amaethyddol, a. agricultural Amaethyddiaeth, n. agriculture Ambeil, a. scarce, few Amcan, n. intent, a purpose Amcaniad, a. intention Amcanioeth, n. conjecture Amcanol, a. intentional Amcansuil, n. hypothesis Amcanu, v. to guess, to design, to purpose Amcanus, a. inventive Amcanwr, n. tnroator Amchwyl, n. circumvolution Amdan, n.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

And the good wenches (for that they undoubtedly were), the housekeeper and niece, helped him to bed, where they gave him something to eat and made him as comfortable as possible.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The marshal was therefore executed, but the King gave his daughter to the huntsman, and named him his viceroy over the whole kingdom.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

That donkey was worried about something, but I have spoken to him and now he seems quiet and reasonable.”
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Lothario said, too, that every married man should have some friend who would point out to him any negligence he might be guilty of in his conduct, for it will sometimes happen that owing to the deep affection the husband bears his wife either he does not caution her, or, not to vex her, refrains from telling her to do or not to do certain things, doing or avoiding which may be a matter of honour or reproach to him; and errors of this kind he could easily correct if warned by a friend.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Disposal of Cut Hair and Nails BUT even when the hair and nails have been safely cut, there remains the difficulty of disposing of them, for their owner believes himself liable to suffer from any harm that may befall them.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

I had placed the princess Crystallina just outside the door of the throne room where she stood concealed behind the thick hangings, and near her I had stationed Doctor Nebulosus with a large circular mirror of burnished silver in his hand.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

The good curate, though he ate nothing, having taken his meal long before, sat at the head of the table, and the repast was enlivened by his chat.
— from The Bible in Spain, Vol. 1 [of 2] Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

At the sight of Mother Bear, it gave a little whicker of relief and delight, and ran straight to her and nuzzled hungrily under her warm fur, quite as if it had a right to be there.
— from Wild Folk by Samuel Scoville

"Between them, he and nature have made a good likeness."
— from Don Orsino by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

A few courteous entreaties were all that the frank old nobleman required; and whether they were sincere or not, he evidently received them as such, saying that he could well trust his good riders to trap an old fox, though it might have grown grey in its cunning; but that, if they had not succeeded by two hours after noon, he would mount himself.
— from The Castle of Ehrenstein Its Lords Spiritual and Temporal; Its Inhabitants Earthly and Unearthly by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Ye have heard of the Prince of Wales, son of the Roy Outremer; doubtless even to these walls has come the news of that triumphal march of his, where cities have surrendered or ransomed themselves to him, and nothing has been able to stay the might of his conquering arm.
— from In the Days of Chivalry: A Tale of the Times of the Black Prince by Evelyn Everett-Green

It seems that I arrived, quite unexpectedly, two hours after news had reached the house of the ruin of my father's mines through inundation; misfortunes, as it was expounded to me, never coming singly in this world to any one.
— from Paul Kelver by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Yet had he framed to himself, by the instruction of his frailty, many deceiving promises of life; which I, by my good leisure, have discredited to him, and now he is resolv'd to die.
— from Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare

The thousand rills which trickle down from the hills and neighbouring highlands are forgotten, the constant unseen action of air and heat and light bearing away the myriad waterdrops to store them in the clouds of the firmament, ready to hear when the corn and the vine call to the earth, and the earth calleth to the heavens, and to answer in life-bringing showers, is left unremembered.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various

Looking at men, hearing them, considering them, it is not only possible not to be reminded of God; but their very tendency is to exclude him from our minds, because the moral workmanship which is so predominant in them has assuredly not had God for its author.
— from The Christian Life: Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps by Thomas Arnold

Fremont isn’t very far from the Range, and when I wanted to ride anywhere, or to have a new horse broken, Larry was handy.”
— from The Cattle-Baron's Daughter by Harold Bindloss