Kohn did not put up a fight: he let Christophe knock him down and rub his face in the dust, while he howled; but he would begin again at once with a malice that never tired—until the day when he became really afraid, Christophe having seriously threatened to kill him.
— from Jean-Christophe in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Romain Rolland

Therefore I thought it wise to keep him at a distance and tire him, which I did by retreating and catching his sword-cuts on my shield, only smiting back now and again.
— from The Ancient Allan by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

While the lovers are bidding each-other farewell Balducci returns; and Cellini has scarcely time to hide behind the window-curtain before he enters.
— from The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas by Annesley, Charles, pseud.

She, absorbed in the requickened wrath which had been rising and choking her since the morning, panted out in low broken sentences, ‘Just before you came, he sent Lavaux—he did!
— from The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 by Alphonse Daudet

Most of the grass-grown rampart walls (near which was Andersen's Warton Almshouse) that surrounded the town and connected with the citadel have been removed, as Copenhagen had spread far beyond them, and they had become entirely out of date.
— from Capitals of the Northlands: Tales of Ten Cities by Ian C. Hannah

"Brother Robert and cousin Harold," said he, "what are you doing?
— from The Young Marooners on the Florida Coast by F. R. (Francis Robert) Goulding

The whole town being wrapped in slumbers, he was now at a stand, not knowing the road which led through Aberayon to Cardigan; but, rousing a cottager, he soon gained the necessary information, and proceeded on.
— from The Comical Adventures of Twm Shon Catty (Thomas Jones, Esq.), Commonly known as the Welsh Robin Hood by T. J. Llewelyn (Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn) Prichard

The jealousy between Rome and Carthage had slumbered so long as they were threatened by the invasion of Pyrrhus , which was dangerous to both.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

Their horses became restive and 'Copenhagen' himself so fidgetty, that the Duke, getting impatient, and having reasons for remaining on the spot, said to those about him, 'Gentlemen we are rather too close together—better to divide a little.'
— from The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo by Creasy, Edward Shepherd, Sir