His Queen was dead, and the little daughter who might have been a comfort to him he had sent away to be the prey of wolves and kites.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

To Mr. Crew’s, and there took money and paid Mrs. Anne, Mrs. Jemima’s maid, off quite, and so she went away and another came to her.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The children creep out of the temporary hut, which is like a gipsy tent upon the ground, and clap their hands and shout.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Ἀθηναίων μᾶλλον καὶ δεομένην μείζονος καὶ γενναιοτέρου σωφρονιστοῦ. (To return to Diogenes: he was poor and lacked means, yet he travelled to Olympia, though he bade Alexander come to him, if we are to believe Dio.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Yet while a glamour of mystery and awe has always clung to Hallowe’en in the minds of the Celtic peasantry, the popular celebration of the festival has been, at least in modern times, by no means of a prevailing gloomy cast; on the contrary it has been attended by picturesque features and merry pastimes, which rendered it the gayest night of all the year.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Hereupon he left one whose name was Lysias, who was in great repute with him governor of the kingdom, as far as the bounds of Egypt, and of the Lower Asia, and reaching from the river Euphrates, and committed to him a certain part of his forces, and of his elephants, and charged him to bring up his son Antiochus with all possible care, until he came back; and that he should conquer Judea, and take its inhabitants for slaves, and utterly destroy Jerusalem, and abolish the whole nation.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

He will contrive that his beloved shall be wholly ignorant, and in everything shall look to him; he is to be the delight of the lover's heart, and a curse to himself.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

So poor a clerk, though having a limited salary and an unlimited family, that he had never yet attained the modest object of his ambition: which was, to wear a complete new suit of clothes, hat and boots included, at one time.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

It was empty except of a few sacks, and at the further end was the door often mentioned, opening under the cathead and chain that hoisted the sacks.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

On the 23d of March 1526, he wrote to several of the princes and cities that had remained faithful to Rome.
— from History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume 3 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

His common acquaintance complained that he was too grave for them, and that he was deficient in wit and point.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832 by Various

During the last few minutes a certain tension had crept in between the two men.
— from The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Mary and I entered into a long and amicable conversation till her father came home, when we retired to bed.
— from Jacob Faithful by Frederick Marryat

Besides, he was quite sincerely convinced that they were to the benefit of the author as much as to the benefit of the publisher, who knows better than the author how to circulate his work, and is not, like the author, hindered by scruples of a sentimental, respectable order, which are contrary to his real interests.
— from Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Romain Rolland

In the morning, as he went round the battlements with Turnpenny to see that the guns had all been crammed with bursting charges, he was seized with a whim to preserve two of them and carry them home to England.
— from With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang

He could boast neither of vast intelligence, nor of phenomenal courage, but he had a conscience that had made gold of his whole rough, stunted body.
— from Love Among the Ruins by Warwick Deeping

Till yesterday, I believe, she never doubted his regard; and even now, perhaps—but I am almost convinced that he never was really attached to her.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Legh afterwards complained that he did not act as he himself did in regard to enforcing injunctions
— from Woman under Monasticism Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 by Lina Eckenstein