He got their attention as he had so often got it in front of the post-office.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

And then he related how his animals had healed him by means of a wonderful root, and how he had travelled about with them for one year, and had at length again come there and had learnt the treachery of the marshal by the inn-keeper's story.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

He had rooms in the palace, in the garrets over the Princess’s quarters (the building was a huge one, and accommodated almost a city of noble retainers of the family); but the infatuated young fool would not budge, although he had not even the excuse of love for staying.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

He was waiting for a bus, and just then it drove up, and he hailed it.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

And Mr. Quinion, calling in Tipp the carman, who was a married man, and had a room to let, quartered me prospectively on him—by our mutual consent, as he had every reason to think; for I said nothing, though my resolution was now taken.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

He related the manner in which he had become acquainted with Valentine, and how he had loved her, and that Valentine, in her solitude and her misfortune, had accepted the offer of his devotion.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I told him the distance and the road, and I told him of the church's being so very well worth seeing; for as he has a taste for those sort of things, I thought that would be a good excuse, and he listened with all his understanding and soul; and I am sure from his manner that you will have him calling here soon.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

The Snake, being in great torment and not knowing how to rid himself of his enemy, saw a wagon heavily laden with wood, and went and purposely placed his head under the wheels, saying, “At least my enemy and I shall perish together.” H2 anchor The Dog and the Hare A HOUND having started a Hare on the hillside pursued her for some distance, at one time biting her with his teeth as if he would take her life, and at another fawning upon her, as if in play with another dog.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

Yet who can speak the simple joy with which some of those poor outcasts, to whom life was a joyless journey to a dark unknown, heard of a compassionate Redeemer and a heavenly home?
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

She turned to me, with that high, sweet look of hers, and then, as her eyes rested in mine and her hands too—then suddenly there blazed out between us a farther glory, instant, overwhelming—quite beyond any words of mine to tell.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

He is proud of being trusted with anything, especially with keys; and he has been kept waiting for them, while I had far more important matters to occupy me.
— from Jezebel's Daughter by Wilkie Collins

As soon as he had gone she drove the cow to the pasture, as he had told her to do; but she had a good long walk over the moor before she reached the hill, and by the time that she got back to the house she felt very tired.
— from The Scottish Fairy Book by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Wilson) Grierson

And how hast thou been received and cared for, my child?"
— from A Noble Queen: A Romance of Indian History (Volume 2 of 3) by Meadows Taylor

Ah! how happy was Corinne the day that she represented the part of a noble character in a beautiful tragedy before the lover of her choice; how many years, how many lives would appear dull, compared to such a day!
— from Corinne; Or, Italy. Volume 1 (of 2) by Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Staël

But, although he has tried everywhere, he cannot find a publisher who is willing to undertake his little book.
— from Old Valentines A Love Story by Munson Aldrich Havens

He told her of his country and his home; and how he loved the hills that his fathers had always owned, and the rugged, simple, faithful people; he told her of the plans of his father and himself for them; he told her of his father, who had the best heart in the world, but was credited with a fierce temper simply because his voice was loud; and his mother, who was so gentle that every one loved her; and his handsome sister, and his brother, who was a diplomat and far cleverer than he; and his little brother who died and would have no one carry him in his pain but Max ("Ah, he was the most clever and the most beautiful of us all!"), and Max, his little nephew, who looked like the dead boy.
— from Stories That End Well by Octave Thanet

Master Brook; but the peaking cornuto her husband, Master Brook, dwelling in a continual 'larum of jealousy, comes me in the instant of our, encounter, after we had embrac'd, kiss'd, protested, and, as it were, spoke the prologue of our comedy; and at his heels a rabble of his companions, thither provoked and instigated by his distemper, and, forsooth, to search his house for his wife's love.
— from The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

But the woman did not shrink; the man was her god, and she preferred death at his hands to life without him.
— from Idolatry: A Romance by Julian Hawthorne

The stranger’s booted feet were stretched far in front of him; his relaxed hands lay under the folds of his riding coat, and his head was nodding now this way, now that, in search of a resting place.
— from Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various

Here he stole two fresh horses, and loading one with all the buckskins, he put her on and headed her down the Eagle Trail to Black River.
— from Crooked Trails by Frederic Remington