Anon came the lady of the castle, and when she heard their talk, and saw their evil case, she wrung her hands and wept bitterly.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

In the morning, at sunrise, the entire clan started out promptly to their allotted tasks, and Mr. Hume inspected each gang.
— from In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa by Ernest Glanville

For a general sketch of Astrology, see the English Cyclopaedia, s.v.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

" "In the meantime, then, I might as well call the job off and stop the expense," Conway suggested.
— from The Pride of Palomar by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

We promenaded the decks, and scanned the ever changing scenery, at every bend, with unalloyed delight.
— from The American Indians Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

His work has the honest candor of the border ballads and the fairy tales: as well as unmitigated joys, they are full of the dangers and horrors and sorrows that every child soon knows to be part of the world, however vainly parents try to veil them.
— from Songs of Childhood by Walter De la Mare

" "Leetle rat zat you air!" shouted the enraged cook, shaking a ladle furiously at his h
— from Army Boys in France; or, From Training Camp to Trenches by Homer Randall

We also see the Episcopal Church school in its fine old building, Stuart Hall, and we walk past the Presbyterian manse where President Wilson was born.
— from Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway by Effie Price Gladding

Tacon caused the Governor's palace to be rebuilt, at great profit to himself and his favorites in the way of perquisites and bribes; he caused a military road to be constructed; and he had a spacious theatre erected, cynically saying, that "it would keep the people amused, and keep their minds off of matters which did not concern them."
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Willis Fletcher Johnson