A fall of snow however compelled the king to remain where he was for some days; in the course of which he summoned a meeting of such Achaeans as were in the army, and after pointing out to them the strength and excellent position of the town for the purposes of the present war, he spoke also of his own friendly disposition towards their nation: and ended by saying, “We hereby yield up and present this town to the Achaeans; for it is our purpose to show them all the favour in our power, and to omit nothing that may testify to our zeal.”
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

[349] know their shame, whereas none as yet knew it; wherefore, seeing that prayers availed her not, she had recourse to threats and said, 'An thou open not to me, I will make thee the woefullest man alive.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

I asked no loan of anybody, nor did I try to fill my pocket; and though I meant to make some useful laws, I made hardly any, as I was afraid they would not be kept; for in that case it comes to the same thing to make them or not to make them.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

With neither the opportunity nor the means to defend myself, I had to submit to being maligned and rendered an object of suspicion on all sides by my rival, who remained master of the field.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

But an experienced eye would have fixed on him at once as the village blacksmith, after seeing the humble deference with which the big saucy fellow took off his hat and stroked his hair to the farmers; for Chad was accustomed to say that a working-man must hold a candle to a personage understood to be as black as he was himself on weekdays; by which evil-sounding rule of conduct he meant what was, after all, rather virtuous than otherwise, namely, that men who had horses to be shod must be treated with respect.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Spain is the only nation the Moors fear.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

But if religious forces have a place of their own nowhere, their mobility is easily explained.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

They broke off fragments from Noah’s tomb; from the exquisite sculptures of the temples of Baalbec; from the houses of Judas and Ananias, in Damascus; from the tomb of Nimrod the Mighty Hunter in Jonesborough; from the worn Greek and Roman inscriptions set in the hoary walls of the Castle of Banias; and now they have been hacking and chipping these old arches here that Jesus looked upon in the flesh.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

They ought not to marry, to have children; no workingman ought to marry—if he, Jurgis, had known what a woman was like, he would have had his eyes torn out first.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

This was part of the Evidence against her, which she denied; which, whether true or no, thus much is certain, that she did not want Bravery, nor indeed was she less remarkable for her Modesty, according to her Notions of Virtue: Her Sex was not so much as suspected by any Person on Board, till Anne Bonny , who was not altogether so reserved in point of Chastity, took a particular liking to her; in short, Anne Bonny took her for a handsome young Fellow, and for some Reasons best known to herself, first discovered her Sex to Mary Read; Mary Read knowing what she would be at, and being very sensible of her own Incapacity that Way, was forced to come to a right Understanding with her, and so to the great Disappointment of Anne Bonny , she let her know she was a Woman also; but this Intimacy so disturb’d Captain Rackam , who was the Lover and Gallant of Anne Bonny , that he grew furiously jealous, so that he told Anne Bonny , he would cut her new Lover’s Throat, therefore, to quiet him, she let him into the Secret also.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

When the Flemings approched neere to our nauie, they made saile, as if they would set vpon the same; and our men of purpose made countenance as if they would haue retired, as mistrusting themselues to be able to match their aduersaries, who coueting rather a safe passage than battell, passed by: but the Englishmen hauing once got the wind fit for their purpose, suddenlie set vpon the Flemish ships, and fought with them right fiercelie: at length, after a sore conflict which indured foure houres, the victorie fell to the Englishmen.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (12 of 12) Richard the Second, the Second Sonne to Edward Prince of Wales by Raphael Holinshed

“But what do you propose doing—running in, seizing the kegs, and trying to carry them out?” “Nay, that makes the job too risky, sir.
— from The Peril Finders by George Manville Fenn

"You did not know when you were with us the other night that my race was so nearly run, that I was to break down in the middle of the course.
— from Wyllard's Weird: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

From this one can only reasonably conclude that Ellida is of the opinion no true marriage is possible, unless the [381] woman possesses a thorough knowledge of her suitor and has had full freedom in her choice.
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

She did not realize now what weight of pressing power there was behind it, the overbearing numbers that must tell in the end.
— from The Green Bough by E. Temple (Ernest Temple) Thurston

For this one night try me without it.
— from The Free Lances: A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Mayne Reid

They consent; soon afterwards, passing through a country rich in herds, the lion feels inclined to stay, and demands his portion of the money, but as his money resembles that of the others, not to mistake, he takes by force both his own and theirs.
— from Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 2 (of 2) by Angelo De Gubernatis

“After all, it’s my path he’s trespassing on, Norah,” the Marchesa remonstrated.
— from Tales of two people by Anthony Hope

Advise that they ought not to make Peace upon any other terms than to make the Ohio the boundary line.
— from Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin by Archer Butler Hulbert

It is noticeable, too, that neither the officers nor the men of any colored regiment have figured in the charges and counter-charges arising out of the use of the water-torture, except one man who at the time of his offense was not with his regiment.
— from The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various