La Combe St. Michel, the commissioner from the national convention, who was in the city, replied in these terms to the summons of the British admiral—"I have hot shot for your ships, and bayonets for your troops.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

The same acclamations were bestowed upon Prince John, although he was indebted for them rather to the splendour of his appearance and train, than to the popularity of his character.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Therefore they took them and beat them, and besmeared them with dirt, and then put them into the cage, that they might be made a spectacle to all the men of the fair.
— 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

I am opposed to the theory that the individual studies the interests of the species, or of posterity, at the cost of his own advantage: all this is only apparent.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Testamur , the slip of paper on which the examiners testify (testari) to the fact that the candidate has satisfied their requirements.—
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Stand your ground therefore when they advance, and again wait your opportunity to retire in good order, and you will reach a place of safety all the sooner, and will know for ever afterwards that rabble such as these, to those who sustain their first attack, do but show off their courage by threats of the terrible things that they are going to do, at a distance, but with those who give way to them are quick enough to display their heroism in pursuit when they can do so without danger.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

value of the talent, taking the Euboic and Attic talent as the same, see note on Book 34 , 8 .
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Iabir kunu ni sa ahinsiya ug dawátun ba, Try taking this to the pawnshop and see if they will accept it.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I’m glad some more of them will die, for they are getting so thick that they tread on me.”
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

I see some real usefulness and good in his work, and I'll help him in it with a will—when—when Thelma comes back." Thus talking, the two friends reached the Garrick Club, where they found Beau Lovelace in the reading-room, turning over some new books with the curious smiling air of one who believes there can be nothing original under the sun, and that all literature is mere repetition.
— from Thelma by Marie Corelli

The sentimental may cry fie on so clear-sighted a Cupid, but the sensible cannot but rejoice over anything that tends to the undoing of the phrase "lottery of marriage."
— from The Land of Contrasts: A Briton's View of His American Kin by James F. (James Fullarton) Muirhead

The Phenicians therefore set forth from the Erythraian Sea and sailed through the Southern Sea; and when autumn came, they would put to shore and sow the land, wherever in Libya they might happen to be as they sailed, and then they waited for the harvest: and having reaped the corn they would sail on, so that after two years had elapsed, in the third year they turned through the Pillars of Heracles and arrived again in Egypt.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

It would be a pleasing and instructive task to trace the progress of this old town, from those rude beginnings to its present strength and wealth.
— from The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town of New Milford, Conn. June 17th, 1907 Address Delivered by Daniel Davenport, of Bridgeport, Conn. by Daniel Davenport

Father, we thank Thee that Thy light and Thy love reach earth, open the prison to them that are bound, con- sole the innocent, and throw wide the gates of heaven.
— from Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy

They proposed to take them to Pittsburg, where they would be out of the way of any assault made by the English or the savages.
— from A Century of Dishonor A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes by Helen Hunt Jackson

All you want is time,—time to quiet the nerves, time to think, time to breathe.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

After its reversion to the Crown it was again taken by Llewelyn's brother, and it was about this time that the present keep was built.
— from What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association by Gordon Home

The objects of this work are—To record every new fact belonging to the subject; to render every part of the subject interesting to the amateur and general reader; to lead on the reader by degrees from the more elementary details to higher views and discussions; and to translate the technical terms, and Latin or Greek words used in Natural History, as they occur, and to give the derivation and accentuation of all systematic names.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 2 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

DUCHESS Thou toad, thou toad, where is thy brother Clarence?
— from The Tragedy of King Richard III by William Shakespeare