To Milsom Street she was directed, and having made herself perfect in the number, hastened away with eager steps and a beating heart to pay her visit, explain her conduct, and be forgiven; tripping lightly through the church-yard, and resolutely turning away her eyes, that she might not be obliged to see her beloved Isabella and her dear family, who, she had reason to believe, were in a shop hard by.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

At her command her children, the Winds, flew down to the plain, and seizing the body of the slain hero conveyed it through the air safe from the desecration of the enemy.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can, No, not the hangman's axe, bear half the keenness Of thy sharp envy.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

What, in this case, would become of these Seven Hundred and Forty-nine men?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Under the faint beams of the stars How beautiful appeared the flowers, Light scarlet, flecked with golden bars Of the palâsas, [1] in the bowers That Nature there herself had made Without the aid of man.
— from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt

She had another and far more dangerous foe—a foe who was not to be bribed or bought off, though she had been as rich as an empress.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

This disposition of Perino's, which was well known to the officials of the Palace, was the reason that he always had something to do for one or another of them, and he did it willingly, in order to bind them to himself, so that they might be obliged to serve him in the payment of his allowances and in his other requirements.
— from Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi by Giorgio Vasari

Scarcely had the intrepid nobleman and the herculean porter closed together, when the Doctor, attired in his dressing-gown and slippers, and with his cotton night-cap on his head, appeared at the bottom of the stairs, holding a chamber-candle in his hand.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

Here I received the kindest attention, also severe ridicule from 'Dick,' a person of no mean size, and the man of the house, for being obliged to seek help.
— from The Blizzard in the West Being as Record and Story of the Disastrous Storm which Raged Throughout Devon and Cornwall, and West Somerset, On the Night of March 9th, 1891 by Unknown

After he and Janet had explored the house and garden, there seemed nothing left to do for Oliver but to stroll up and down the drive, stare through the tall gates at the motors going by, or to spend hours in the garage, sitting on a box and watching Jennings, the chauffeur, tinker with the big car that was so seldom used.
— from The Windy Hill by Cornelia Meigs

Mita, after pushing forward at one point as far as the Mediterranean, had been driven back into the mountains by the prefect of Kuî, and the Bedâwin of the south had sustained a serious reverse.
— from History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 7 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

Since that period Christianity has prevailed in Europe, and formed the great bond of the social happiness and the great source of the intellectual eminence enjoyed in that quarter of the globe.
— from Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. By Wm. C. Taylor. by Oliver Goldsmith

Begone, or thou shalt hear more, and that which thou wilt like even less than this—begone!”
— from The Knights of England, France, and Scotland by Henry William Herbert

Henry did not relish his task, but he felt it to be his duty—and Henry had never been one to shirk his duty.
— from Tutors' Lane by W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon) Lewis

Thus we find, in the first book of Livy, an ambassador styling himself a public messenger of the Roman People; and, in the sixth book of the same historian, we have a declaration of the senate, confining the rights of embassies to the intercourse between foreign powers, and excluding citizens from the same privileges in their transactions with each other.
— from The Rights of War and Peace by Hugo Grotius

At last, and not till the third or fourth time of asking, Jane blurted out that she had got the sack; such was her homely expression, dignified, however, by honest tears.
— from Griffith Gaunt; or, Jealousy Volumes 1 to 3 (of 3) by Charles Reade