But Jehu drew his bow, and smote him, the arrow going through his heart: so Joram fell down immediately on his knee, and gave up the ghost.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

To her a horse was a thing that kicked or bit or showed the whites of his eyes and set his ears back and switched his tail and gave other evidences of depraved moral nature, and she would no more touch or approach one than she would a wild-cat, except when in so doing, with an admiring audience, she could become the central figure in an effective tableau.
— from Marion's Faith. by Charles King

To array all these as enemies, inspired by a satanic hostility to a great servant of God, is to ask too much for our belief;" and yet this is precisely what Irving by constant modifications, and De Lorgues in a monstrous degree, feel themselves justified in doing.
— from Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery by Justin Winsor

I should like to go on board and see how they are getting on.”
— from In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston

It filled his belly and swelled him to a great size, but it brought him little nourishment or strength.
— from Canadian Fairy Tales by Cyrus MacMillan

For as they had no skill either in working the engines, or in constructing works, but were continually making foolish sallies, and fighting bravely, they always returned with diminished numbers; doing just as much good, as the saying is, as a bucket of water brought by a single hand to a general conflagration.
— from The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Ammianus Marcellinus

It was at least three months after his young lodger's arrival that Walter burst into his sitting-room one afternoon, without his usual knock at the door, with the great news that he had just had word, by a safe hand, that a gang of poachers would be in the Home Park that very night, and that all the staff of keepers would be out in waiting for them.
— from Bred in the Bone; Or, Like Father, Like Son: A Novel by James Payn

This man had been a soldier, had traveled a great deal, and had visited France, Italy, and E´gypt.
— from The Story of the Thirteen Colonies by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber