Immediately his holiness, the patriarch, sent letters to the emeer Abdallah informing him of Asaad's escape, and requesting him to guard the roads of the Kesroan, and search the neighbourhood, if possibly Asaad might still be found lurking in that district.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Among other disgraceful acts, that make the offender infamous, but do not necessarily involve public action:— "Manslaughter in Breach of Hospitality".—Probably any gross breach of hospitality was disreputable and highly abhorred, but "guest-slaughter" is especially mentioned.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

CHAPTER IV King Arthur Conquers Ireland and Norway, Slays the Giant of St. Michael’s Mount, and Conquers Gaul — The Adventures of Sir Balin he land of Britain being now in peace, and many great and valiant knights therein ready to take part in whatsoever battles or adventures might arise, King Arthur resolved to follow all his enemies to their own coasts.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

But tell mefirst, what soughtest thou thus here alone, and of what land art thou?” “Sir,” said the knight, “my name is Prianius, and my father is a great prince, who hath rebelled against Rome.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Newspapers therefore become more necessary in proportion as men become more equal, and individualism more to be feared.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

HENNESSY: (In medieval hauberk, two wild geese volant on his helm, with noble indignation points a mailed hand against the privates.)
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

To this purpose, getting a kind of letter of naturalisation, I purchased as much land that was uncured as my money would reach, and formed a plan for my plantation and settlement; such a one as might be suitable to the stock which I proposed to myself to receive from England.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Faith, gentlemen, now I play a merchant’s part, And venture madly on a desperate mart.
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

I don't believe in suicide, nor in pure accident, myself.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

I left my wife at the New Exchange and myself to the Exchequer, to looke after my Tangier tallys, and there met Sir G. Downing, who shewed me his present practise now begun this day to paste up upon the Exchequer door a note of what orders upon the new Act are paid and now in paying, and my Lord of Oxford coming by, also took him, and shewed him his whole method of keeping his books, and everything of it, which indeed is very pretty, and at this day there is assigned upon the Act L804,000.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“Nature” is physical and mental character and disposition, taken most broadly; “nurture” is bringing up, environment, studies, scholarship, and experience, also in the broadest sense of those words.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

The Prince Dara-Shikoh, who had saved Mullah Shah's life by his intervention, had always been marked by keen religious feeling, and often spent whole nights in prayer and meditation.
— from Mystics and Saints of Islam by Claud Field

"Her name is Pauline," answered Mrs. Marsh—"a French girl."
— from The de Bercy Affair by Louis Tracy

In the making of bone and teeth, in the coagulation of the blood, in the keeping of fluid within the blood vessels, and in maintaining the tone of the nerves, it plays a major rôle.
— from The Glands Regulating Personality A Study of the Glands of Internal Secretion in Relation to the Types of Human Nature by Louis Berman

A machine, however numerous its parts and movements, does not create the least amount of force; on the contrary, the most perfect machine wastes and absorbs some of the force which is imparted to it.
— from Theism; being the Baird Lecture of 1876 by Robert Flint

Dear Mrs. Burton ,--Your husband has been taken prisoner by our burghers, and is now in Pretoria, and more or less in my charge.
— from A Traitor in London by Fergus Hume

It is perfectly well known that a man may eat a bushel of grapes without getting drunk; because the pure vegetable possesses no intoxicating power any more than the water which I am now drinking—and delicious water it is!”
— from The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

And the same notion is prevalent and many who have withdrawn from the communion of that church.
— from Sermons on Various Important Subjects Written Partly on Sundry of the More Difficult Passages in the Sacred Volume by Andrew Lee

The timely assistance thus rendered by the Government is an earnest of their desire to see this great work accomplished, in which the welfare of the upper provinces is so deeply concerned, as there are no navigable rivers 244 running westward to Cordova, the Parana and the Paraguay tending northward into Paraguay and Matto Grosso.
— from Brazil and the River Plate in 1868 by William Hadfield