In the same year he died, at the early age of twenty-four; some say of the small-pox; others, with Sir Richard Ford, say of poison.—B.] his father to be besieged in Amsterdam, having drawn an army of foot into the towne, and horse near to the towne by night, within three miles of the towne, and they never knew of it; but by chance the Hamburgh post in the night fell among the horse, and heard their design, and knowing the way, it being very dark and rainy, better than they, went from them, and did give notice to the towne before the others could reach the towne, and so were saved.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He had promised to be back in an hour; and his prolonged absence began to excite considerable alarm in the minds of both, as was abundantly testified by the blank looks they cast upon each other at every new disappointment.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

There was also the fear of the allies revolting, owing to the moderation displayed by Brasidas in all his conduct, and to the declarations which he was everywhere making that he sent out to free Hellas.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

I knew some weeks ago that abominable thing was on the calendar, with some six or eight hundred bills before it, and hence felt sure it would not come up this winter, and that in the meantime we should sound the alarm.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

She was still asleep; but, being in a hurry, I sent the widow to say that I wanted to see her only for two minutes in order to communicate something of great importance.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

v [B; b6] be in a highly-sexed mood.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

At the proper moment the clergyman takes the baby, baptizes it and hands it back to the godmother, who holds it until the ceremony is over.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The poor little chap feels mortified, humiliated at being brought into a home out of charity as it were.
— from Three Plays by Luigi Pirandello

"Then you don't think I'd be better in a home of my own--married, I mean," said Lallie with startling bluntness.
— from Master and Maid by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker

"If you don't want to cut your feet you'd better bury it," and he hurried off to wash from his hands some of the unpleasant-smelling mixture that had clung to them.
— from The Boy Ranchers in Camp; Or, The Water Fight at Diamond X by Willard F. Baker

Therein lay a major point of friction between Mun, who demanded that it be brought in, and Harky, who wouldn't bring it.
— from The Duck-footed Hound by Jim Kjelgaard

Tell your mother I shall be back in an hour or so."
— from Lady Connie by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

The bristled Baptist Boar, impure as he, But whiten'd with the foam of sanctity, With fat pollutions fill'd the sacred place, And mountains levell'd in his furious race; So first rebellion founded was in grace.
— from The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden

They do not cast devout looks toward the bespangled firmament, at night; but to them, the brow of a beloved being is a heaven, and the eye is the star that unfolds to them the shadows of their coming destinies.
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 3, September 1837 by Various

"Nothing but beauty in a hand."
— from Browning's Heroines by Ethel Colburn Mayne

Now Herod, in the first place, mitigated the passion of Cassius, by bringing his share out of Galilee, which was a hundred talents, on which account he was in the highest favor with him; and when he reproached the rest for being tardy, he was angry at the cities themselves; so he made slaves of Gophna and Emmaus, and two others of less note; nay, he proceeded as if he would kill Malichus, because he had not made greater haste in exacting his tribute; but Antipater prevented the ruin of this man, and of the other cities, and got into Cassius's favor by bringing in a hundred talents immediately.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus