A gentlewoman's daughter, of a weakly constitution, by drinking the waters, had so far recovered her health and complexion, as to allure the affection of a young squire in the neighbourhood, who amused her for some time with his addresses, until his heart was seduced by the charms of another young lady lately arrived at the wells.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

As they reasoned with me, there was one passage of Scripture which I could not get over, that 'the sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto Him shall the gathering of the people be.'
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Of whom, when he repaired unto him, he made this answer, That for himself, he knew what he had to do, howbeit he was but one man, and the determination appertained to the other commissioners as well as unto him; and thus by posting and passing it from one to another, the party could obtain no end of his suit.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Then, before the doctor had time to do more, or Simpson time to even think a question, much less ask it, Défago was standing upright in front of them, balancing with pain and difficulty, and upon his shapeless and twisted visage an expression so dark and so malicious that it was, in the true sense, monstrous.
— from The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

And when he and I were left alone together, he sat with an air upon him of general lying by in consequence of information he possessed, that really was too much for me.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

At the same time he bade Camilla not to leave Lothario alone until he came back.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

for why is all around us here As if some lesser god had made the world, But had not force to shape it as he would, Till the High God behold it from beyond, And enter it, and make it beautiful?
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

His case, that had been so important down there in the village, was absolutely of no account up here in the city.
— from The Devil's Garden by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell

Or, to touch upon a more practical social aspect of his teaching,—if in the order of nature all men are unequal, how can we ever bring about the right selection of leaders, how indeed can we expect to secure the due ascendancy of character and intellect over the gregarious grossness of the demos?
— from Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller

A man should stick to his duty and let them alone until he gets old enough to understand them as I do.”
— from The Voyage of the Arrow to the China Seas. Its Adventures and Perils, Including Its Capture by Sea Vultures from the Countess of Warwick, as Set Down by William Gore, Chief Mate by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

"A month of pandemonium," he wrote; "an unfurnished house coming to order; a library without books; books without time to open them."
— from William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck

Her boy had been spared to come home to her; and John—John, who always understood, had declared that, for the present, at least, Peter must come first.
— from Peter's Mother by De La Pasture, Henry, Mrs.

This gives them a great facility of movement; for the distance to which horses can be driven over these plains is quite surprising: I have been assured that an unloaded horse can travel a hundred miles a day for many days successively.
— from Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. by Charles Darwin

She was often under fire from both armies; she led our forces through the jungle and the swamp, guided by an unseen hand.
— from Harriet, the Moses of Her People by Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins) Bradford

By these means she gets hold of this Russian, this kind-hearted Sadko, [Sadko, the hero of a legend] the rich guest, and uses his trust in order first to rob and then pitilessly to murder him.”
— from Resurrection by Tolstoy, Leo, graf