Eugène, about an hour afterwards followed, vainly striving to calm his apprehensions by the hope, that before the day for balancing Edouard's accounts arrived, he should find his father in a more Christian-like and generous mood, or, at any rate, hit upon some means of raising the money.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 447 Volume 18, New Series, July 24, 1852 by Various

she asked rather abruptly as he came up to her, looking very handsome {70} and distinguished in his cap and gown—and again Audrey remembered her unlucky speech about the Greek god.
— from Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey

Since in business matters he never had taken her into his confidence, and since she would not at any rate have understood such things, she had no proof of such a failing.
— from A Modern Chronicle — Volume 04 by Winston Churchill

And now, by what strange combination of chance were these three men, so differing in birth, habits, and education, met together some five or six hundred leagues from any civilized abode, on the banks of a river, if not unknown, at any rate hitherto unexplored, seated amicably on the grass, and sharing a breakfast which was more than frugal?
— from The Prairie Flower: A Tale of the Indian Border by Gustave Aimard

For twenty years, his eloquence was exerted at Strasburg to establish the Protestant cause; but the turbulence of the times, and his opposition to the views of the Catholics at Augsburg, rendered him unpopular, so that he received with pleasure the invitations of Cranmer to settle in England.
— from The Book of Religions Comprising the Views, Creeds, Sentiments, or Opinions, of All the Principal Religious Sects in the World, Particularly of All Christian Denominations in Europe and America, to Which are Added Church and Missionary Statistics, Together With Biographical Sketches by John Hayward

In this state she lay for an hour of more, and awoke refreshed, her usual shrewd and reticent self.
— from The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Hewlett

And even when he took her by the arm and raised her up she kept on beseeching him, weak as any child: "Oh, no, no, Edward, let me----" but she got no further, for she felt herself folded in his arms, and felt how he too was quivering with the emotion he could not control.
— from In God's Way: A Novel by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson