His next move was to open his jacket and apparently press his disk against his bare body right over his heart.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

When we went to call on our American Consul General today I noticed that all possible games for parlor amusement seemed to be represented on his center tables.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

H. H. Presently we came to an enormous pile, which we rightly took to be a temple covering at least eight acres of ground, and apparently arranged in a series of courts, each one enclosing another of smaller size, on the principle of a Chinese nest of boxes, the courts being separated one from the other by rows of huge columns.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

And through the black rings of his pupils, as through dark glasses, the unfathomable There gazed upon humanity.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

When she espies the Ilian ranks and Turnus' columns, suddenly shrinking to the shape of a small bird that often sits late by night on tombs or ruinous roofs, and vexes the darkness with her cry, in such change of likeness the monster shrilly passes and repasses before Turnus' face, and her wings beat restlessly on his shield.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

At a conversation with the General after our interview, wherein I offered to go with him on Monday morning to Mr. Stanton, and to say that it was our joint opinion be should resign, it was found impossible by reason of his (General Grant) going to Richmond and my going to Annapolis.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

But when he had gone the brief round of her he returned discouraged by the thought that all this frankness and innocence were only an artificial product.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Tom was a handsome young fellow; and for that species of men Mrs Honour had some regard; but this was perfectly indiscriminate; for having being crossed in the love which she bore a certain nobleman's footman, who had basely deserted her after a promise of marriage, she had so securely kept together the broken remains of her heart, that no man had ever since been able to possess himself of any single fragment.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Madame, very much troubled by reflection on her position with regard to the King, had sent the Duchesse de Ventadour to Madame de Maintenon.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

His life has been undramatic; the even, ordered course of the typical German professor, made even more uneventful by reason of his mastery of the gentle art of not making enemies.
— from Six Major Prophets by Edwin E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson

He had been so used, this child of outdoor life, to going about the world barefooted, that it was no wonder that he walked briskly, being relieved of his encumbering shoes and stockings.
— from Kate Bonnet: The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter by Frank Richard Stockton

Al y t nighte Cortez slept not, but rather occupyed himselfe in carrying the wounded men, & other stuffe aboord y e Shyps, & also to disenbarke thirtéene Horses, & the residue of his mē y t he had left aboord, y t which he brought to passe before the sunne rising, although the Tauascans had notice thereof.
— from The pleasant historie of the conquest of the VVeast India, now called new Spayne atchieued by the vvorthy Prince Hernando Cortes, marques of the Valley of Huaxacac, most delectable to reade by Francisco López de Gómara

But I lose time; I should lay a little parson in ambush, that lives hard by, in case Christina should be impatient to be revenged of her friends, as it often happens with a discontented heiress.
— from William Wycherley [Four Plays] by William Wycherley

We think of him as having lost his throne in that revolution of 1688, by reason of his popish tendencies; but it is doubtful if Protestantism would have saved him, or made a better man of him.
— from English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 2: From Elizabeth to Anne by Donald Grant Mitchell

She had been raised on horseback, almost; and for two terrible months she had not been in the saddle.
— from The Ranch at the Wolverine by B. M. Bower

There are irons fixed in the walls of the chimney to climb up and down by; and, what is more, they bear traces of a recent passage—the rust has been rubbed off here and there!...
— from Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas by Pierre Souvestre

[69] The authority with which he was vested by reason of his executive ability and earnest zeal soon diminished with the arrival of the newly appointed governor, Heer Van Scherpenhuizen, the successor of Aerssens, [70] a fact which tended much to embitter his days and aroused sharp controversy between him and his rival.
— from The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen by Simon Wolf

"To-morrow morning early, by the first train." Now to be rid of him!
— from Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson