An incessant fire was kept up from the VICTORY from both sides; her larboard guns playing upon the BUCENTAURE and the huge SANTISSIMA TRINIDAD.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

Having gained the notice of the Emperor himself and become attached to his service, he passed nearly 27 years in the Tartar countries.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

While yet many score yards off, other rhythmic sounds than those she had quitted became audible to her; sounds that she knew well—so well.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

He lay thinking a few minutes, as he had done before, and then he spoke again.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

He says that he was in the battle, and that he saw a gray horse with a man on his back, but that the man was, to his thinking, Francesco de Morla, and not the ever-blessed apostle St. James.
— from Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

While They drink out of skulls newly torn from the grave, Dancing round them the Spectres are seen: Their liquor is blood, and this horrible Stave They howl.—'To the health of Alonzo the Brave, And
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Venus bestowed her best affections upon the god of war and upon the martial Anchises, while Freya often assumes the garb of a Valkyr, and rides rapidly to earth to take part in mortal strife and bear away the heroic slain to feast in her halls.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

If they marry, they must as independent workers be able to help support their children, for their men are paid on a scale which makes sole support of the family often impossible.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

He paced quickly up and down and came back again to his stand between Mr. and Mrs. Scott and Mr. Gaven.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

He and I had a great deal of talk about it; and the best of all is, that he is gone back again to Harley Street, that he may be within call when Mrs. Ferrars is told of it, for she was sent for as soon as ever my cousins left the house, for your sister was sure SHE would be in hysterics too;
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

"Darkness as black as——": then he shouted with a yet more forcible volley of oaths: "Jean! you oaf!
— from The Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred Days by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

The sisters had seen so much that it seemed as if an age had passed, but actually they had spent only two hours here.
— from The Created Legend by Fyodor Sologub

It was a sine qua non that he was to go; and knowing the character of the man, I felt convinced that it had been arranged that he should head the mutiny conspired to be enacted upon our arrival at Chenooda's camp in the Latooka country.
— from In the Heart of Africa by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

Not being prepared to bargain at such a time, I put the dollar in his hand, and bade him go with God, telling Mohammed-el-Hosein to explain in Berber all that he should do.
— from Mogreb-el-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham

While this was going on both Buck and Terry had scrambled to their feet, and then began a fierce fight between that pair and Bob and Joe.
— from The Radio Boys at Mountain Pass; Or, The Midnight Call for Assistance by Allen Chapman

But it must be admitted that hitherto success has seldom been attained: and M. Descartes himself, with all that very great skill which one cannot deny in him, never perhaps had less success than when he essayed to do this in one of his answers to objections.
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von

Roger began, and then he stopped.
— from Changing Winds A Novel by St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine

Wesley led Billy to the cistern, pumped cold water into the tub, poured in a kettle of hot, and beginning at the head scoured him.
— from A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter