And so Sir Tristram departed and left him there.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

For the sculptors the compasses and squares suffice to discover and apply all the proportions and measurements whereof they have need; for the painters there is necessary, besides the knowledge how to make good use of the aforesaid instruments, an accurate understanding of perspective, for the reason that they have to provide a thousand other things beyond landscapes and buildings, not to mention that they must have greater judgment by reason of the quantity of the figures in one scene, wherein more errors can come than in a single statue.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

upon the jades with great pleasure, and we sang finely and staid till about eight at night, the night coming on apace and so set them down at Pierce’s, and so away home, where awhile with Sir W. Warren about business, and then to bed, 10th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“A squall,” said the deacon.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

For kings commonly link themselves, as it were, in a nuptial bond to their council, and deliberate and communicate with them after a prudent and laudable custom upon matters of the greatest importance, at the same time justly conceiving this no diminution of their majesty; but when the matter once ripens to a decree or order, which is a kind of birth, the king then suffers the council to go on no further, 420 lest the act should seem to depend upon their pleasure.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Who say thou cam'st a secret spy!'— 'They do, by heaven!—come
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

Night had fallen, a dull, windy night, with now and then a star showing through driving masses of clouds.
— from The River Motor Boat Boys on the Columbia; Or, The Confession of a Photograph by Harry Gordon

Agam Singha says, that during these wars, his ancestor Baju was killed, and was succeeded by his son Bidyachandra, who relinquished the title of Hang, and in its stead took that of Chautariya, and who, like all his successors, assumed a Hindu page 136 p. 136 name, and adopted some degree of purity in his manner of life.
— from An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha by Francis Hamilton

"'Tween you and me, honey,"— "O, go, this minute, daddy," and she shut the door in his face, and proceeded to the kitchen, where she found mammy quietly smoking her pipe in the corner.
— from Little Wolf: A Tale of the Western Frontier by Mary Ann Mann Cornelius

The pleasure with which he regards the prospect [pg 440] of being constantly with her he transfers to her, and she seems to demand it of him as a duty that he should confer upon her this new happiness.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various

In order to encourage re-enlistment amongst the men, furloughs were liberally granted by the authorities at Richmond, and for a short season the din of arms was unheard on the Shenandoah.
— from Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G. F. R. (George Francis Robert) Henderson

As she spoke, the doctor, restless, as men are in excitement, had moved over to the mantelpiece, and stood with one foot upon the edge of the fender.
— from Flames by Robert Hichens

Denmark general assessment: excellent telephone and telegraph services domestic: buried and submarine cables and microwave radio relay form trunk network, multiple cellular mobile communications systems international: country code - 45; a series of fiber-optic submarine cables link Denmark with Canada, Faroe Islands, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and UK; satellite earth stations - 18 (6 Intelsat, 10 Eutelsat, 1 Orion, 1 Inmarsat (Blaavand-Atlantic-East)); note - the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) share the Danish earth station and the Eik, Norway, station for worldwide Inmarsat access (2008) Djibouti general assessment: telephone facilities in the city of Djibouti are adequate, as are the microwave radio relay connections to outlying areas of the country domestic: microwave radio relay network; mobile cellular coverage is primarily limited to the area in and around Djibouti city international:
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

We'll look them over by and by, Betty, and see what can be done;" and she shut the drawer upon the pathetic relics.
— from Betty Leicester: A Story For Girls by Sarah Orne Jewett