Yesterday, Hall and Donovan had paid them a visit and shaken their heads at the map that Ralph and Stack were drawing.
— from Black Treasure Sandy Steele Adventures #1 by Robert Leckie

That is to say, I see no reason whatever to doubt, firstly, that Saul made such a visit; and, secondly, that he and all who were present, including the wise woman of Endor herself, would have given, with entire sincerity, very much the same account of the business as that which we now read in the twenty-eighth chapter of the first book of Samuel; and I am further of opinion that this story is one of the most important of those fossils, to which I have referred, in the material which it offers for the reconstruction of the theology of the time.
— from Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas Henry Huxley

{225} But the English were better prepared than before, and met the onslaught with such a volley as shattered the Highland attack and literally matted the ground with Highland bodies.
— from A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by Justin McCarthy

case independent; that is, independent of any verb; as, Selma , thy halls are silent; Love and meekness, my lord , become a churchman, better than ambition; O Jerusalem, Jerusalem , how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, but ye would not!—For a farther illustration of this case, see Note 2, under the 5th Rule of Syntax.
— from English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a new systematic order of parsing, a new system of punctuation, exercises in false syntax, and a system of philosophical grammar, in notes, to which are added an appendix and a key to the exercises : designed for the use of schools and private learners by Samuel Kirkham

Pepe Vera had come and placed himself behind her; he laid hold of her arm violently, and said to her a second time— “I do not wish you to sing.”
— from La Gaviota: A Spanish novel by Fernán Caballero

This gentleman recorded this testimony of his pupil, when, shortly afterwards, he was removed from his tutelage, and before any idea was entertained about his distinguished future position:—“His attainments are various, and solid too; his abilities are superior; his disposition amiable; his conduct unexceptionable; and, above all, his belief in, and his attachment to, the Protestant religion is sincere.”
— from The Public Life of Queen Victoria by John McGilchrist

This family will live in a flat, not in a villini as separate town houses are called.
— from Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

In the evening Sub-chief George came round to pay us a visit, and said that he and nine other Indians had once seen the back of Mount St. Elias, when after goats, and that it was a gentle snow-slope.
— from With Sack and Stock in Alaska by Horatio George Broke