And when he had ridden nigh half a mile he turned again and thought to slay them both; and when he saw them both so lie sleeping fast, unnethe he might hold him on horseback for sorrow, and said thus to himself, Though this knight be never so false, I will never slay him sleeping, for I will never destroy the high order of knighthood; and therewith he departed again.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

How often, at hare and hounds, have I seen him mounted on a little knoll, cheering the whole field on to action, and waving his hat above his grey head, oblivious of King Charles the Martyr’s head, and all belonging to it!
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

There can be no doubt that, from the days when the stout Earl of Chester and others were constantly employed in checking and cutting off the expeditions of their neighbours till comparatively recently, the term “Welshman” has been hardly one of kindness.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

With a vigorous and sudden kick, that brought him on one knee, with a groan, I released my hold upon his throat, snatched the hatchet, and cast it beyond reach.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

No, no, friend, I shall never be bubbled out of my religion in hopes only of keeping my place under another government; for I should certainly be no better, and very probably might be worse.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The reason of this is that trade-jealousy— odium figulinum —which, in the case of men does not go beyond the confines of their own particular pursuit; but, with women, embraces the whole sex; since they have only one kind of business.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

Breaking bones, and brandished about the mangled limbs of warriors, the stock I have wrenched off shall crush the backs of the wicked, crush the hearths of our kindred, shed the blood of our countrymen, and be a destructive pest upon our land.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

This is due perhaps to the fact that odium figulinum in the case of men, is limited to their everyday affairs, but with women embraces the whole sex; since they have only one kind of business.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

On the dexter shield are the arms of the husband with the circle of his order of knighthood, and on the sinister shield are the arms of the husband impaling the arms of the wife.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

This task I shall endeavour to accomplish in the next two chapters: and if I do so with anything approaching to success, the present work will at least have the merit of contributing something towards filling up that wide and dreary chasm, which, to the hindrance of our knowledge, separates subjects that are intimately related, and should never be disunited.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

In those days Edith had not been fully aware of the dismal condition rapidly overtaking that once honorable word, and Sam had been surprisingly insensitive to words and the rich changeable life of words, as if he could hear only one kind of music, or believed other kinds irrelevant.
— from The Trial of Callista Blake by Edgar Pangborn

And in this instance she was not able to hold out or keep her resolution of refusing aid to her injurers when they were being enslaved, but she was softened, and did in fact send out aid, and delivered the Hellenes from slavery, and they were free until they afterwards enslaved themselves.
— from Menexenus by Plato

We cannot be too liberal in our general wishes for the happiness of our kind.
— from Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke

These men, my Lord, upon their oaths affirm, That they did hear Lord Cromwell in his garden, Wished a dagger sticking at the heart Of our King Henry.
— from The Life and Death of the Lord Cromwell by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

Our people had a greater defeat than yours, and we lost ten or twelve white men, whilst hundreds of our Kaffirs were killed.”
— from Adventures of Hans Sterk: The South African Hunter and Pioneer by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson

Let the patriotism of our army, the heroism of our King, of our beloved Queen in her magnanimity, serve to stimulate us and support us.
— from The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 by Various

Hearing of Osborne, Kay actually was grateful in a sense.
— from The Silicon Jungle by David H. Rothman

True, in the sad case of poor Orlando, he had not managed to steer clear of murder; but then that deed was done without his orders or knowledge.
— from The Madman and the Pirate by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne