Buckingham had returned to London;
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

But he recalled the promise he had made to Valentine, and kept his secret.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Go, Bushy, to the Earl of Wiltshire straight; Bid him repair to us to Ely House To see this business.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I would reconcile him to life, but he repulses the idea.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

And all that Cyrus intended to do before him relating to the restoration of Jerusalem, Darius also ordained should be done accordingly.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

When an absolute monarch has the right of trying offences by his representatives, the fate of the prisoner is, as it were, decided beforehand.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

It was gone, but Beth had remembered the little household ceremony, and there she was, nodding away at them like a rosyfaced mandarin.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Abd-er-Rahmān received them with all the gorgeous ceremony and all the native courtesy which belonged to him; and not only did Sancho speedily get rid of his fatness under the care of Hasdai, but he returned to the north, supported by the armies of the Khalif, who restored him to the throne of Leon in 960.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

Nature, as if conscious of delayed blessings, has rushed to man's relief with her wondrous forces, and undertakes to do the world's drudgery and emancipate him from Eden's curse.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Before he returned to the rectory, he had made up his mind what he would do, and on the following morning Julia Brabazon received by the hands of her maid the following note:— "I think I understood all that you said to me yesterday.
— from The Claverings by Anthony Trollope

A few days after, the merchant having despatched all his business in Rhodes and purposing to return to Cyprus on board a Catalan carrack that was there, asked the fair lady what she had a mind to do, for that it behoved him return to Cyprus.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Then he began his return trip of forty-five miles.
— from The Adventures of Buffalo Bill by Buffalo Bill

El-Soo was angered thereat; but he refused to speak with her, and went to the trading post to lay in extra ammunition.
— from Lost Face by Jack London

[72] CHAPTER VI A WILD RACE IN THE NIGHT Johnny had not gone far in the pursuit of the strange intruder who had leaped out from behind the sheet-steel press, before he realized that this was no ordinary runner.
— from White Fire by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

"I ham," replied the suitor—"and there," continued he, cutting a hot roll, and introducing the pat, "I melts as easily afore the glance of your beautiful heyes!" Resolved to carry on the campaign with spirit, he called for two glasses of brandy and water, stiff, and three cigars!
— from Sketches by Seymour — Volume 02 by Robert Seymour

Father Burlando had returned to Baltimore, but a good priest, who came occasionally to the encampment, heard her confession, and she received communion a day or two previous to her death.
— from Angels of the Battlefield A History of the Labors of the Catholic Sisterhoods in the Late Civil War by George Barton

Alas, how short the tender dream had been, how rude the awakening!
— from Rose in Bloom A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" by Louisa May Alcott

Major Davis wheeled like a flash, bringing his revolver to bear.
— from Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks; or, Two Recruits in the United States Army by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock