Without mentioning any names or going into any details, I gave him to understand that if he was aware of anybody—Tom, Jack, or Richard—being about the chambers, or about the immediate neighborhood, he had better get Tom, Jack, or Richard out of the way while you were out of the way.”
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Not alone did it give him the same dark and murky aspect of the Silva house, inside and out, but it seemed to emphasize that animal-like strength of his which she detested.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

By weighing foods after they have been purchased, a housekeeper can determine if a dealer is giving her that for which she pays.
— from School and Home Cooking by Carlotta C. (Carlotta Cherryholmes) Greer

Again Jumbo labored mightily to advance Sawed-Off, and did indeed get him to second on a well-situated base-hit.
— from The Dozen from Lakerim by Rupert Hughes

I had quite a difficulty in getting him to heel.”
— from Not Like Other Girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey

The fever and pain both began to abate directly I got home to my old Scot.
— from Ladysmith: The Diary of a Siege by Henry Woodd Nevinson

Do you think there will be any difficulty in getting her to consent to come?"
— from Missy: A Novel by Miriam Coles Harris

We dined upstairs, and directly after dinner I got her to pose for me that I might catch the first idea for my picture "The Joy of the East."
— from Five Nights: A Novel by Victoria Cross

And presently, when he asked for another drink, I gave him that too.
— from In the Sargasso Sea A Novel by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

With flag flying, with trumpet and drum, it gaily held the field.
— from Flames by Robert Hichens

True, she longed to have a talk with her darling, who for the first time in her life had attended a great entertainment, and doubtless it grieved her to think that Eva did not feel the necessity of pouring out her heart to her own mother rather than to any one else, and sharing with her all the new emotions which undoubtedly had thrilled it; but she knew her child, and would have considered it selfish to place any obstacle in the pathway to eternal salvation of the elect whom God summoned with so loud a voice.
— from In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 02 by Georg Ebers