{34} It is not the pleasure of the King that this place should remain so bad.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

A German knows how to skin a flint, as the proverb says,” remarked Shinshín, moving his pipe to the other side of his mouth and winking at the count.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The bishop warned him against venturing any further in his design, and represented to him the perils of his undertaking; but if the pilgrim still remained steadfast in his purpose, he gave him a recommendatory letter to the prior of the island.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

And one by one her articles of dress Were laid aside; but not before she offer'd Her aid to fair Juanna, whose excess Of modesty declined the assistance proffer'd: Which pass'd well off—as she could do no less; Though by this politesse she rather suffer'd, Pricking her fingers with those cursed pins, Which surely were invented for our sins,— Making a woman like a porcupine, Not to be rashly touch'd.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Robben , v. to plunder, spoil, rob, SkD, PP; robby , S2.—AF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Suddenly, however, she became aware that one of the passing shadows remained stationary between her line of vision and the gleaming asphalt; and raising her eyes she saw a young woman bending over her.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Here the three agreed that Pompey should rule Spain, Crassus Syria, and Cćsar Gaul, which he had made his own.
— from The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Arthur Gilman

As the pirate sloop raced southward under full sail, the form of the other ship became steadily plainer.
— from The Black Buccaneer by Stephen W. (Stephen Warren) Meader

the Pope. story right ] story’s light Capell.
— from The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William Shakespeare

It is to be expected that the historiography of this period should represent some of the defects of medieval historiography in another form, owing to its character of reaction already mentioned and to the new divinity that it had raised up upon the altars in place of the ancient divinity, humanity.
— from Theory & History of Historiography by Benedetto Croce

The transformation of the territory into States was promised as soon as the population should reach sixty thousand.
— from Government and Administration of the United States by Westel Woodbury Willoughby

Dignity now demands that disappointment shall be concealed, and an alliance is formed with the presumably successful rival, Sir Alexander Gilmour.
— from Boswell the Biographer by George Mallory