[ 586 ] The total failure of the above temperate, dignified, and vibrant protest of the Philippine Assembly to reach the ears of the American people is but another reminder that history repeats itself.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

And for that I am sorry, because without our assistance little Ozma will never be rescued and restored to her rightful position as Queen of the Emerald City" "Do not let us give up so easily," said the Pumpkinhead.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The last act was a desperate one; you can guess it: I pretended to have seen Quinton dead and rushed to his room.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Jacopo, seeing him fall, had believed him killed, and rushing towards him raised him up, and then attended to him with all the kindness of a devoted comrade.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at once.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

When we arrived at Kishan, we learnt, that on hearing of the advance of Lord Raymond and his detachment, the Turkish army had retreated from Rodosto; but meeting with a reinforcement, they had re-trod their steps.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I cooled myself by making a toilette which was extremely necessary, and returned to her room.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Malory’s narrative records how Lancelot, while suffering from the malady of madness caused by Gwenhwyvar’s jealous expulsion of Elayne his fairy-sweetheart,—quite a parallel case to that of Cuchulainn when his wife Emer expelled his fairy-mistress Fand,—fought against a wild boar and was terribly wounded, and how afterwards he was nursed by his own Elayne in Fairyland, and healed and restored to his right mind by the Sangreal.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

He sat down on the cushions and returned to his rosary.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

This accident was the arrival of a coach and four; upon which my landlord and landlady immediately desisted from fighting, and at their entreaty obtained the same favour of their antagonists: but Susan was not so kind to Partridge; for that Amazonian fair having overthrown and bestrid her enemy, was now cuffing him lustily with both her hands, without any regard to his request of a cessation of arms, or to those loud exclamations of murder which he roared forth.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Electricity: capacity: 2,920,000 kW production: 13.1 billion kWh consumption per capita: 3,079 kWh (1992) Industries: natural gas, oil, petroleum products, textiles, food processing Agriculture: cotton, grain, animal husbandry Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis and opium; mostly for CIS consumption; limited government eradication program; used as transshipment points for illicit drugs from Southwest Asia to Western Europe Economic aid: recipient: Turkmenistan has received about $200 million in bilateral aid credits Currency: Turkmenistan introduced its national currency, the manat, on 1 November 1993
— from The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

But, being disappointed in this, he went home, and, retiring to his room, undid the wrapper, which he carefully but vainly examined for some name, mark, or other clue to the mystery; and then, with much interest, fell to inspecting the picture.
— from Gaut Gurley; Or, the Trappers of Umbagog: A Tale of Border Life by Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce) Thompson

E. Bowen, Bowen and Ramsay, Turner H. Ramsay, Charles E. Tackett, Peter Goolrick and Daniel Bradford.
— from The History of the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia by S. J. (Silvanus Jackson) Quinn

In the year 700 A.D. a Mohammedan general by the name of Tarik crossed the old gates of Hercules and reached the high rock on the European side which he called the Gibel-al-tarik, the Hill of Tarik or Gibraltar.
— from The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

At any rate, they have reached the condition of semi-fossils.
— from The Thirteen by Honoré de Balzac

187 It is noticeable, as regards the habitual recurrence of his phrases, that in his early letters he always nicknames this first illness “the enemy,” the same as he used to his physicians in his last.
— from Disraeli: A Study in Personality and Ideas by Walter Sichel

It was right and proper to threaten armed resistance to Home Rule.
— from Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 by George A. Birmingham

Another ran to his rescue.
— from Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

A section of the floor on which they stood came up, supported by columns, and now formed the roof of a room that had risen out of the floor.
— from The Einstein See-Saw by Miles John Breuer