Then the warrior put his hand on his face, and pressed his eyelids together, and the boy went to sleep.
— from Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people by George Bird Grinnell

He had invented a certain device of immense importance, and he was trying to get them to accept it and pay him enough to assure him a decent living.
— from The Crimson Patch by Augusta Huiell Seaman

In weird chants and dances, in feast days and fast days, by sacrifice and penance, he endeavored to appease the spirits of his gods and insure happiness for himself.
— from The Girl in Her Teens by Margaret Slattery

The queen hastened to receive him, and pressed him earnestly to alight; this the prince, who most probably had good reasons to suspect her feelings towards him, declined, observing that he had merely time to accept a draught of wine.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses by Anonymous

On this last day's march we had a pretty high eminence to ascend at some distance from the town, from which the view of the town, the shipping, and the sea, broke all at once upon us.
— from Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by William Surtees

Out of curiosity she crept up and placed her eye to a crack.
— from Klytia: A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Adolf Hausrath

Thus it came about that, although his scholarship was not calculated to make of him a Porson, he earned the admiration and applause of boys and masters by his triumphs as an athlete, a cricketer, and a foot-ball player, and was established as a universal favourite.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 14 1890 by Various

'Ought a philosopher,' he exclaims, 'to allow anything unclean about him, especially in the mouth—the mouth, which is the vestibule of the soul, the gate of discourse, the portico of thought!
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 425, March, 1851 by Various

His scheme of politics was altogether pacific; he endeavoured to accomplish his purposes by raising and fomenting intrigues at foreign courts; he did not seem to pay much regard to the military glory of France; and he too much neglected the naval power of that kingdom.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett