“That can I do,” said the strange knight, “and will, if thou wilt aid and succour me to become christened, and to believe on God, which now I do require of thee upon thy manhood.”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Other instances will be found, as St. Kentigern (who is sometimes said to be the same as St. Mungo), and who occurs as the crest of Glasgow: "The half-length figure of St. Kentigern affronté, vested and mitred, his right hand raised in the act of benediction, and having in his left hand a crosier, all proper;" St. Michael, in the arms of Linlithgow: "Azure, the figure of the Archangel Michael, with wings expanded, treading on the belly of a serpent lying with its tail nowed fesswise in base, all argent, the head of which he is piercing through with a spear in his dexter hand, and grasping with his sinister an escutcheon charged with the Royal Arms of Scotland."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

On his right lay the young soldier killed a minute before him by the side of Schoelcher, and on the left an old woman who had been struck down by a spent ball in the Rue de Cotte, and whom the executioners of the coup d'état had gathered up later on; in the first moment one cannot find out all one's riches.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

: ‘You were wishing to see ‘Marmion,’ Mrs. Graham; and here it is, if you will be so kind as to take it.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Kinabúhing uhaw sa kalípay, A life devoid of happiness.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The heart until it bleeds, Ray-fringed eyelids of the morn Roof not a glance so keen as thine:
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

"Alas," said the youth, "I have been doing tiring work all day, and the ride here has completely worn me out; you know the man, be so kind as to get on my horse, and go and persuade him to come here."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

The building on King Street known as "Government House" was originally the private residence of Chief Justice Elmsley.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

She had a knife without a handle hidden under her belt, and that night when all lay down to sleep by the fire she kept awake.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

My mother told me what she knew about it and my father knows that she told me, but he has never spoken to me about it.
— from The Heart of Cherry McBain: A Novel by Douglas Durkin

“I only desire,” answered the cavalier, “that you will be so kind as to allow a lady, whom I am conducting to Gelvas, and who has been suddenly taken ill at a short distance from {27} hence, to rest herself for a short time in your house, and that you will be kind enough to assist us in the application of something which may relieve her.”—“If
— from The Life and Adventures of Guzman D'Alfarache, or the Spanish Rogue, vol. 1/3 by Mateo Alemán

A seated king and an archer shooting at S. Christopher, who is bound to a stake; the arrows fall deflected and broken by the hand of God, which appears by the saint's head.
— from The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson

Then he looked warningly at Worth, saying: “Keep a sharp eye out, Billy.
— from The Auto Boys' Vacation by James A. (James Andrew) Braden

Whatever had taken place--and here, in tribute to his own professional credit, he must be permitted to say that it was sorely against his wish and advice that he was now driven to admit that anything had taken place, and he would have defied the learned counsel opposite to prove that there had, and more, to bring it home to these much-injured Indians--it was but right that the instigator should be brought to stand his trial by the side of his instruments, and he claimed of the court to permit the prisoner Paul to swear an information against Ralph Herkimer, financier, broker, banker,"--"and bankrupt," some one muttered--"for conspiring with and suborning, and inciting by promise of gain, the prisoner Paul to steal, kidnap, abduct, and make away with the infant daughter of George Selby, professor of music, in the city of Montreal."
— from A Rich Man's Relatives (Vol. 3 of 3) by Robert Cleland

The results were exactly of the same kind, although presented occasionally in a more imposing form.
— from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

Agr. ’Tis Nero, Fulvia, he who seemed but late So kind and dutiful: ’twas all hollowness, Part of the plot, to bring me here alone, Away from friends: ay, and perceive this too, To lay my death to charge of an accident, And hide, maybe, even my dead body, drowned And lost in the depths of the sea.
— from Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 3 by Robert Bridges

" "Why don't you sue him for divorce if he neglects you?" suggested Kennedy, again seeking to start an argument.
— from Jimmy Kirkland and the Plot for a Pennant by Hugh S. (Hugh Stuart) Fullerton

Do not expect me to delay the story and tell you that such and such kings and counts were there, and that this, that, and the other were of the number.
— from Four Arthurian Romances by Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century

The true golfer is he who plays golf for its own sake and without any ulterior end, without thought of consequences, although consequences of some kind are inevitable.
— from Personality in Literature by R. A. (Rolfe Arnold) Scott-James