Moreover, he was busy executing feats of strength during the day for his living, and at night he was engaged in composing a memorial against the Bishop of Paris, for he remembered having been drenched by the wheels of his mills, and he cherished a grudge against him for it.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

On some of these occasions, she expressed her extreme readiness to prolong her visit during the whole of the night, but Clapperton informed her, that at night he was employed in prayer, and looking at the stars, an occupation which she could not comprehend; and further he told her, that he never drank any thing stronger than wa-in-zafir, a name which they give to tea, literally, however, being hot water.
— from Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa by Robert Huish

His errand was to ultimately save the world, and now he was engaged in saving at least one soul.
— from Joy in Service; Forgetting, and Pressing Onward; Until the Day Dawn by George Tybout Purves

And now he will explain it to you.”
— from A Son Of The Sun by Jack London

Daily he might be seen laboriously drafting letters of incredible length and wearisome prolixity to acting-Bishop Wenceslas; and nightly he was engaged in long colloquies and whispered conferences with Don Luis and others of his followers and hangers-on.
— from Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

How the wind is caught or how the boats are moved about is a mystery to any but those who work them; if you ask a native he will explain it all to you: “He good fellow belong salt water, go easy.”
— from The Savage South Seas by E. Way (Ernest Way) Elkington

There was every appearance of the journey being a difficult one, for on the first day a stoppage had to be made every quarter of a mile or thereabouts for a road to be cut through the ridges with ice-axes, while next day a new hindrance was experienced in the young ice in the channels being too thin at times to support the sledges, one of which began to sink and was only extricated with difficulty, so that only one sledge could be allowed on such ice at a time.
— from Round About the North Pole by W. J. (William John) Gordon

Goulden met and congratulated him, saying that he had bought a little himself, and would take more if Mr. Allen would sell, as now he was easier in funds than when spoken to before on the subject.
— from What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe

The Story of a Boy AFTER LONDON McCabe, Joseph ST. AUGUSTINE AND HIS AGE Nevinson, H. W. ESSAYS IN FREEDOM Stephen, Sir Leslie ENGLISH LITERATURE AND SOCIETY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY STUDIES OF A BIOGRAPHER.
— from Amaryllis at the Fair by Richard Jefferies

Like my father and Nastasey, he was engaged in the humbler class of legal work and acted as legal adviser and agent.
— from Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

He has split up an broken up every church an neighborhood he was ever in, an ef he should go to Satan's dominions, I think he might split an break up that place, an you know what a blessing that would be.'" I hadn't more than got the last word out of my mouth, wen the Kernel jumped up from his cheer, and ketchin hold of his boot-jack, he flourished it rite over his head in a savage style.
— from Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Seba Smith