Jordan died about ten years after and he was brought home and buried beside Hester.”
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

398. --Representation of a Ballet before Henri III. and his Court, in the Gallery of the Louvre.--Fac-simile of an Engraving on Copper of the "Ballet de la Royne," by Balthazar de Beaujoyeulx (folio, Paris, Mamert Patisson, 1582.)
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

His bones of his anckle are broke, but he hopes to do well soon; and a fine person by his discourse he seems to be and
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It was written and sold to a bookseller before his Traveller; but published after; so little expectation had the bookseller from it.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

A few years however will settle her opinions on the reasonable basis of common sense and observation; and then they may be more easy to define and to justify than they now are, by any body but herself.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

“Listen, I intend to open a bookbinding business here, on rational co-operative principles.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But when the Romans made no reply about peace, but as before bade him depart from Italy and only in that event make propositions to them, and since they kept overrunning and capturing the cities in alliance with him, Frag.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

At times she stops, and stands at bay; But he, in all more strong than she, Subdues her with his pale dismay, Or more admired audacity.
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

I with Cocke and Mr. Temple (whose wife was just now brought to bed of a boy, but he seems not to be at all taken with it, which is a strange consideration how others do rejoice to have a child born), to Sir G. Carteret’s, in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, and there did dine together, there being there, among other company, Mr. Attorney Montagu, and his fine lady, a fine woman.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He came forward a step, took the cold, unresisting hands, and, bending before her, pressed them to his lips, while her bewildered eyes looked down upon him.
— from Miss Bretherton by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Hence, Kant in the Aesthetic , and Berkeley before him, were essentially right in their procedure.
— from Kant's Theory of Knowledge by H. A. (Harold Arthur) Prichard

His secretary took down the statements made by the captain and mate, and when these had been sworn to, he quoted from a book before him as he turned to Dane.
— from The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss

On being introduced to her, Philip felt somewhat ashamed of not having made her acquaintance before, because he had allowed himself to be influenced by Mrs. Sidebottom's prejudice.
— from The Pennycomequicks, Volume 1 (of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Louis was careful—careful as if he were lifting a baby; but he did not delay, nor did he take him upstairs.
— from The Arm-Chair at the Inn by Francis Hopkinson Smith

But suddenly a young man, with a cap cocked over one ear, rushed up like a bomb, brought his fist down on the table, upset the punch bowl and glasses, and boxed the little brunette's ears, crying: "Ah! that's how you behave, Joséphine!
— from Frédérique, vol. 2 by Paul de Kock

But this I can say, that if he ever was a beau before he married, he is one still for there is not the smallest alteration in him.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

And Maheshwara looked at her out of the corner of his eye, and he said to himself: Now, then, I must do something to console her for the elephant, and bring back her good humour.
— from The Substance of a Dream by F. W. (Francis William) Bain

Now, however, this idea is boldly advanced in England by the American [Pg 282] branch of the society there, and in America by Burcham Harding, the acting head of the society in this country.
— from Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft Illustrated Investigations into the Phenomena of Spiritualism and Theosophy by Henry Ridgely Evans