Nor was the act of caution altogether unwarranted, for Nozdrev also raised his fist, and it may be that one of our hero’s plump, pleasant-looking cheeks would have sustained an indelible insult had not he (Chichikov) parried the blow and, seizing Nozdrev by his whirling arms, held them fast.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Besides the damage to game, the concentration of too many foxes in one district is opposed to the interest of the hunt—first, because the attendant destruction of neighbouring poultry causes an unpleasant feeling; next, because when the meet takes place the plethora of foxes spoils the sport.
— from The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Richard Jefferies

The candidate, however, had to keep chaste and unpolluted for nine days prior to the ceremony, which each one attended wearing crowns and garlands of flowers and observed by offering prayers and sacrifices.
— from The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Dudley Wright

the king and you may be quite certain that everything will rest in statu quo in England, 22 and that no one can abuse us from now to the end of the negotiation which I believe about finished.”
— from Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence, Vol. 2 by Elizabeth Sarah Kite

"Two hundred of Le Petit Vieillard de Calais , but to sell them I was obliged to cry down two books which pay in less commission, and uncommonly fine 'nightingales' they are now.
— from Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac

“Two hundred of Le Petit Vieillard de Calais , but to sell them I was obliged to cry down two books which pay in less commission, and uncommonly fine ‘nightingales’ they are now.”
— from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honoré de Balzac

For what seemed like an hour, although it was less than a minute, the world was oddly hushed, as if it too were listening, then, clear and unmistakable from north of them, somewhere on the lake, came a terrified cry and a shout for help.
— from The Air Mystery of Isle La Motte by E. J. (Edith Janice) Craine

In July, a detachment of men and gunboats under Colonel Church advanced upon Fort Negro.
— from A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 (of 3) by Edwin Emerson

This soon ceased, and at four some signal flags were seen to run up to the masthead of the Invincible , and instantly the fire from the British ships ceased, and a dead silence succeeded the din of battle that had continued almost unbroken for nine hours.
— from A Chapter of Adventures by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

To Louis, he was a constant and useful friend, never flagging in his efforts to make him more manly and independent in his conduct, as regarded the opinion of others; and also quietly strengthening, by his example and encouragement, every good feeling and impression he noticed.
— from Louis' School Days: A Story for Boys by E. J. (Edith J.) May