A man is to fit himself to what is round him: but surely a Crown-Prince may be indulged in a little brocade in his leisure moments!— Fritz and Quantz sat doing music, an unlawful thing, in this pleasant, but also unlawful costume; when Lieutenant Katte, who was on watch in the outer room, rushes in, distraction in his aspect: Majesty just here!
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 06 by Thomas Carlyle

He would talk to me about it in a tone of remonstrance, raise imaginary difficulties to propositions I was supposed to make and superstitions I entertained, speak of it as “this book Bliss is going to write”; and at the utmost admit no more than collaboration.
— from Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The swimmer was soon picked up, and, to our regret, received in due season the same number of stripes as fell to the lot of his friends captured in battle.
— from The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Edward Wilson Landor

THE TRAGEDY OF RONCESVALLES "Roland is daring and Oliver wise, Both of marvelous high emprise; On their chargers mounted and girt in mail, To the death in battle they will not quail."
— from With Spurs of Gold: Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds by Dolly Williams Kirk