It was damp, and they had almost reached Koltovitch’s copse.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I shall see whether you will submit to an appeal, to which Tullus Hostilius, a Roman king, submitted."
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

XXIX Which when he knew, and felt our feeble harts Embost with bale, and bitter byting griefe, 255 Which love had launched with his deadly darts, With wounding words and termes of foule repriefe, He pluckt from us all hope of due reliefe, That earst us held in love of lingring life; Then hopelesse hartlesse, gan the cunning thiefe 260 Perswade us die, to stint all further strife: To me he lent this rope, to him a rustie knife.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

And men of counsel, good and tried, On whose firm truth he aye relied, King Aśvapati gave with speed Prince Bharat on his way to lead.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

In all probability he had saved her life; for I am told the late Lord Gower had been often in the condition with the gout in the head, and Radcliffe kept him alive many years after. "
— from A Book About Doctors by John Cordy Jeaffreson

It is noted by Skeat and Blagden 8 that “the Semang women wore in their hair a remarkable kind of comb, which appears to be worn entirely as a charm against diseases.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 1 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

I jumped off my horse and gave the reins to the man and put my arms around the poor woman, whom I loved for her sorrows and for my debt to her, and rained kisses upon her withered cheek.
— from The Light in the Clearing: A Tale of the North Country in the Time of Silas Wright by Irving Bacheller

[Pg 175] I had further the good fortune to secure, through the kindness of Reverend Baldwin, two handsome and remarkable knives from fossil mammoth ivory.
— from Anthropological Survey in Alaska by Aleš Hrdlička

Morris made no reply; but giving a gratuity to each of the men, leaped on shore, rapidly ascended the hill, and rejoining Knowles, cried, ‘I have been talking with Walters:’ taking out several guineas, he added, ‘carry these to him, and tell him that he shall never want while it is in my power to assist him.’ Knowles suggested, that as the man was much addicted to liquor, he would render p.
— from The Wye and Its Associations: A Picturesque Ramble by Leitch Ritchie

Now, this may appear incredible to those who have only seen the awakened Irishmen who do a vast quantity of the hardest and roughest kind of work in Great Britain and in the United States.
— from Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Bernard Henry Becker

And one cannot help being struck by the wonderful industry of the people, women taking almost more than their fair share of out-door work, in the fields, etc. Up to the very summit of the hills and rocky knolls, terrace upon terrace, every inch of ground, seems to be well cultivated.
— from Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by W. Cope Devereux

In truth Wordsworth hardly knows how to be stern, as Dante or Milton was stern; nor has he the note of plangent sadness which strikes the ear in men as morally inferior to him as Rousseau, Keats, Shelley, or Coleridge; nor has he the Olympian air with which Goethe delivered sage oracles.
— from Studies in Literature by John Morley

Miss Herbert was the housekeeper, and Rosalind knew she was at church; but when she tried to explain, the old man shook his head, and taking from his pocket a tablet with a pencil attached, he held it out to her, touching his ear as he uttered the one word "Deaf."
— from Mr. Pat's Little Girl: A Story of the Arden Foresters by Mary Finley Leonard

She approaches into the hall; and Rake, knowing the dignity of his own mien and aspect, goes deputy from his company.
— from The Tatler, Volume 1 by Steele, Richard, Sir