He thanked us for the address, and said he was very much pleased to see us, especially as such friendly relations existed between Russia and the United States.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

But when some told the king what Joab's supposal was, he sent Benaiah, and commanded him to raise him up from the altar, and bring him to the judgment-seat, in order to make his defense.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

He also wrote to the Parthians, to persuade them to receive Artabanus again; and gave them his right hand and his faith, that he should forget what was past and done, and that he would undertake for this as a mediator between them.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

He drew up for their adoption a scheme of government modeled after the European plan, with the capital at Great Tellico, in Tennessee, the principal medicine man as emperor, and himself as the emperor’s secretary.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The night of the 24th of March was fixed upon for this assault, and General Gordon was assigned to the execution of the plan.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

manifestly convicts, out of his own knowledge; for when he was ambassador in Egypt, he saw swallows, Spanish kites, [3024] and many such other European birds, in December and January very familiarly flying, and in great abundance, about Alexandria, ubi floridae tunc arbores ac viridaria .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

They fought like devils, and—well, the rest of us fought, too, and all the time, throughout the bloody business, I had before me that vision of Randolph alone in the moonlight.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

And Medosades submissively made answer: "I say," said he, "and Seuthes says the same: we think we have a right to ask that those who have become our friends should not be ill-treated by you; whatever ill you do to them you really do to us, for they are a part of us."
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

"If we go out now, they will not only chase us; they will catch us, for they are able to see very well in the dark."
— from Pastoral Affair by Charles A. Stearns

His image is impressed upon the hearts of all who knew him; and his heavenly portrait, painted by the hand of his adopted son, the worthy and eloquent Mr. Jay, will be held up for the admiration and regard of succeeding generations.”
— from Brief Records of the Independent Church at Beccles, Suffolk Including biographical notices of its ministers,and some account of the rise of nonconformity in the East Anglian counties by S. Wilton (Samuel Wilton) Rix

Old Meakum, always in court and watchful, was plainly unprepared for this, and among the prisoners, too, I could discern uneasiness.
— from Red Men and White by Owen Wister

I have wealth, and how freely it shall be used for their advantage and happiness you surely cannot doubt.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 1, July 1849 by Various

The cards are then dealt round equally to every player, one turned up for trump, and about six or eight left in the stock to form stops.
— from Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Robert Kemp Philp

God himself hath said, "'Rouse, O Prophet, the faithful to battle; for twenty of you standing fast shall overpower two hundred, and a hundred of you shall put to flight thousands of the unbelieving, for they are a people that have no knowledge.'
— from Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia by J. Milton (John Milton) Mackie

"Having in love predestinated us for the adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to himself.
— from God's Plan with Men by T. T. (Thomas Theodore) Martin

And the Angel of Death only may part us; for thou art all in all to me." ...
— from Concerning Lafcadio Hearn; With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by George M. (George Milbrey) Gould

Well, daybreak was the time fixed upon for the attack, and as no alarm might be given to the garrison, the soldiers were ordered not to load: the place was, in short, to be taken at the point of the bayonet.
— from Soldiers and Sailors or, Anecdotes, Details, and Recollections of Naval and Military Life, as Related to His Nephews, by an Old Officer. by Old Humphrey