But Mr. Peters could not conveniently provide a preacher for his own church tomorrow morning, at so short a notice; Mr. Williams being gone, as I said, to his new living; but believed he could for the afternoon; and so he promised to give us his company to dinner, and to read afternoon service: and this made my master invite all the rest, as well as him, to dinner, and not to church; and he made them promise to come; and told Mr. Peters, he would send his coach for him and his family.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

" "Well, Phoebe told me all about what she see, and she told me she'd met her lady almost directly afterward, and somethin' had passed between 'em, not much, but enough to let her missus know that the servant what she looked down upon had found out that as would put her in that servant's power to the last day of her life.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The Moor goes to his mosque about noon on his Sabbath, as on any other day, removes his shoes at the door, performs his ablutions, makes his salaams, pressing his forehead to the pavement time and again, says his prayers, and goes back to his work.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

With every wish to afford a shelter, he pleaded the danger which threatened himself and the child in such a feeble sanctuary.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

General Wright commenced the pursuit on the 13th; on the 18th the enemy was overtaken at Snicker's Ferry, on the Shenandoah, when a sharp skirmish occurred; and on the 20th, General Averell encountered and defeated a portion of the rebel army at Winchester, capturing four pieces of artillery and several hundred prisoners.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

While she was absent, Emily's thoughts returned to the picture; an unwillingness to tamper with the integrity of a servant, had checked her enquiries on this subject, as well as concerning some alarming hints, which Annette had dropped respecting Montoni; though her curiosity was entirely awakened, and she had perceived, that her questions might easily be answered.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

After dinner among my joyners, and with them till dark night, and this night they made an end of all; and so having paid them 40s.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Suddenly the passage ended, and she halted and bade the mutes hold up the lamps, and, as she had prophesied, I saw a scene such as I was not likely to see again.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Whether it was that Tim’s accounts were more than usually intricate that morning, or whether it was that his habitual serenity had been a little disturbed by these recollections, it so happened that when Nicholas returned from executing some commission, and inquired whether Mr. Charles Cheeryble was alone in his room, Tim promptly, and without the smallest hesitation, replied in the affirmative, although somebody had passed into the room not ten minutes before, and Tim took especial and particular pride in preventing any intrusion on either of the brothers when they were engaged with any visitor whatever.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

But, beside his uncommon merit as a scholar, he possessed a greatness of soul which nothing could subdue.
— from Solitude With the Life of the Author. In Two Parts by Johann Georg Zimmermann

Even Walsingham, as already stated, had participated in this strange delusion.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

He, perhaps, had dined on bacon and greens, and drunk his ale, and smoked his pipe, in the very room where I now sat, which was a low, ancient room, certainly much older than Queen Anne's time, with a red-brick floor, and a white-washed ceiling, traversed by bare, rough beams, the whole in the rudest fashion, but extremely neat.
— from Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Never was there a more amiable, pious, excellent boy than Frank, who read his Bible so attentively, and said his prayers so regularly every morning and evening, that he soon learned both to know his duty and to do it.
— from Holiday House: A Series of Tales by Catherine Sinclair

Mr. Pomphlett nodded with an aggrieved air, and sucked his pipe.
— from The Blue Pavilions by Arthur Quiller-Couch

A moment later, if the riot approaches and spreads, he precipitately closes his shop and puts on his uniform; that is to say, places his wares in safety, and risks his person.
— from Les Misérables, v. 4/5: The Idyll and the Epic by Victor Hugo

he asks, after a slight, hardly perceptible pause.
— from Nancy: A Novel by Rhoda Broughton

But I will resume at a somewhat higher point and describe the manner in which the king sets out on an expedition.
— from The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians by Xenophon

For a brief instant he poised motionless above the diver and his antagonist and then, quickly and gracefully as a seal, he plunged straight down at the octopus.
— from The Radio Detectives Under the Sea by A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill

Old Mr Seaforth’s house stood at that time on the little point, just beyond the curve of the river, at the foot of which our own house stands, and as the river continued to rise, Mr Seaforth went about actively securing his property.
— from The Young Fur Traders by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne