Now those that came guarded both the temple and the city, excepting what belonged to the palace, which Herod guarded with a few of his soldiers; and Phasaelus had the charge of the wall, while Herod, with a body of his men, sallied out upon the enemy, who lay in the suburbs, and fought courageously, and put many ten thousands to flight, some flying into the city, and some into the temple, and some into the outer fortifications, for some such fortifications there were in that place.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

All the force of her nature had been concentrated on the one effort of concealment, and she had shrunk with irresistible dread from every course that could tend towards a betrayal of her miserable secret.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

The story goes that a boat of Her Majesty’s ship Wolverine found him kneeling on the kelp, naked as the day he was born, and chanting some psalm-tune or other; light snow was falling at the time.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

This occasion might well have brought back vividly cruelly to her memory, that fatal bridal morn when, going to invoke her father's presence and blessing on her marriage, she found him lying stiff and stark in the crimson pool of his own curdled blood.
— from The Lost Lady of Lone by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

This at any rate was lucky, and cheaply purchased with the loss and breakage of his marine stores.
— from Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by John Roby

He had prosecuted the offenders "with the breath and blasts of his mouth;" "so that," said this gross time-server, "I may conclude that his majesty [Pg 393] hath showed himself God's true lieutenant, and that he is no respecter of persons, but English, Scots, noblemen, fencers (which is but an ignoble trade), are all to him alike in respect of justice.
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury