He was in his audience room, and, as I entered, looked up without speaking, but exhibited a mixture of shame and affected anger in his countenance.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Her exceeding beauty excited a murmur of surprise, and the younger knights told each other with their eyes, in silent correspondence, that Brian's best apology was in the power of her real charms, rather than of her imaginary witchcraft.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

724. —John de Beaufort, Earl and Marquis of Somerset, son of John of Gaunt.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Let him be esteemed a man of sincerity and bravery.
— from The Works of Horace by Horace

Luckman would sail with the Southern Cross , be put on board either as mate or supercargo; and on the voyage he would do what he was paid to do.
— from The Pearl Fishers by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

The royal claim to exclusive hunting in the vast forests of Epping, Sherwood, Needwood, Barnesdale, Englewood, and many others seemed preposterous to the yeomen who lived on the borders of the forests, and they took their risks and shot the deer and made venison pasty, convinced that they were wronging no one and risking only their own lives.
— from Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by M. I. (Maud Isabel) Ebbutt

In the Admiral's barge that took him to the "Northumberland" the ex-Emperor "appeared to be in perfect good humour," says Keith, "talking of Egypt, St. Helena, of my former name being Elphinstone, and many other subjects, and joking with the ladies about being seasick.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

The laws against Roman Catholics which { 155} had been enacted as measures of self-defence from the Stuarts, now that there was no longer a necessity for them had become an oppression, which bore with special weight upon Catholic Ireland.
— from A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland by Mary Platt Parmele

As Filippo was no casuist, but merely a believer, and Ithuel applied the end of the flask to his mouth, at that moment, from an old habit of drinking out of jugs and bottles, the Genoese made no answer; keeping his eyes on the flask, which, by the length of time it remained at the other's mouth, appeared to be in great danger of being exhausted; a matter of some moment to one of his own relish for the liquor.
— from The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet by James Fenimore Cooper

The union I believe to be eternal as my own soul, and I leave all in the hands of a good God.
— from Out of the Deep: Words for the Sorrowful by Charles Kingsley