with my glass I discovered from his dress that he was of a different nation from any that we had yet seen, and was satisfyed of his being a Sosone; his arms were a bow and quiver of arrows, and was mounted on an eligant horse without a saddle, and a small string which was attatched to the underjaw of the horse which answered as a bridle.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Could she give up this new love—induce him to renounce her by saying she did not like him—could no more speak to him, and beg him, for her good, to end his furlough in Bath, and see her and Weatherbury no more?
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Now last of all, I will show you by what means beauty doth fascinate, bewitch, as some hold, and work upon the soul of a man by the eye.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

With a stride, the doctor reached the bed, and seizing her arms worked them energetically, applying what I knew to be artificial respiration.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

All Europe seemed to have assembled at Warsaw to see the happy being whom fortune had so unexpectedly raised to a throne, but after seeing him all were agreed that, in his case at all events, the deity had been neither blind nor foolish.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

After dinner to several places about business, and so home and wrote letters at my office, and one to Mr. Coventry about business, and at the close did excuse my not waiting on him myself so often as others do for want of leisure.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Dined at home and Creed with me, and though a very cold day and high wind, yet I took him by land to Deptford, my common walk, where I did some little businesses, and so home again walking both forwards and backwards, as much along the street as we could to save going by water.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Thence to a Committee of Tangier, and so with W. Hewer to Westminster to Sir R. Longs office, and so to the Temple, but did nothing, the Auditor not being within, and so home to dinner, and after dinner out again with my wife to the Temple, and up and down to do a little business, and back again, and so to my office, and did a little business, and so home, and W. Hewer with me, to read and talk, and so to supper, and then to bed in mighty good humour.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

They neither spoke nor sang; but a soft humming and whispering was heard all over the church.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Old Queen was an unsocial animal and it was necessary to tie her in the far stall when a strange horse was brought into the barn, as she had a way of treating intruders badly.
— from The Wind Before the Dawn by Dell H. Munger

Orlando had crept under the bed, and lay there paralyzed with terror; and the mother shrieked so loudly that the brute slunk back and seated himself again with attempted indifference.
— from Prisoners of Poverty Abroad by Helen Campbell

"First of all I heard the story from your captain of the gallant manner in which you, at the risk of your own, saved a young lady's life at Cape François, when attacked by a savage hound, and were seriously injured thereby.
— from A Roving Commission; Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Fathers and children, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, were beginning to wrangle, and were prepared to persecute.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 29: 1578, part III by John Lothrop Motley

as for example, by Admiral Shishkef, himself a writer on various subjects.
— from Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations With a Sketch of Their Popular Poetry by Talvj

There was plenty of deadwood about, and they piled it up at the stems of the trees, set fire to it, and soon, the wind helping them, they had the satisfaction of seeing the whole thicket in a blaze “Ah!” said Hobson, “as we saw their fire, they will see ours!”
— from The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude by Jules Verne

As to the practical part of the work, that was a matter that with my quickness I would pick up in no time; and my bigness and strength, he added, would come in mighty handily when there was trouble among the crew, as sometimes happened, and in keeping the blacks in order, and in the little fights that now and then were necessary with folks on shore.
— from In the Sargasso Sea A Novel by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

In the winters of 1842 and '43, Friend Hopper complied with urgent invitations to visit the Anti-Slavery Fair, in Boston; and seldom has a warmer welcome been given to any man.
— from Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life by Lydia Maria Child

Between brother and sister, husband and wife, parent and child, master and servant, the spirit of tolerance, of "making allowances," transforms a house of gloom and harshness into a home of sweetness and love.
— from The Power of Truth: Individual Problems and Possibilities by William George Jordan