When his companions insisted on passing two or three afternoons in the week at music-halls, drinking beer, smoking German tobacco, and looking at fat German women knitting, while an orchestra played dull music, Adams went with them for the sake of the company, but with no pretence of enjoyment; and when Mr. Apthorp gently protested that he exaggerated his indifference, for of course he enjoyed Beethoven, Adams replied simply that he loathed Beethoven; and felt a slight surprise when Mr. Apthorp and the others laughed as though they thought it humor.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

v. p. 406.), we read— "To Maister John Shorne That blessed man borne; For the ague to him we apply, Whiche jugeleth with a bote I beschrewe his herte rote That will truste him, and it be I." The editor, Mr. Cattley, having explained bote "a recompense or fee," Dr. Maitland, in his Remarks on Rev. S. R. Cattley's Defence of his Edition of Fox's Martyrology , p. 46., after making a reference to Nares, and quoting his explanation, proceeds: "The going on pilgrimage to St. John Shorne is incidentally mentioned at pages 232.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 54, November 9, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

There was one other customer left in the restaurant, a solitary fair, fat man, and as Mr. Gilman’s party was leaving, Audrey last, this solitary fair, fat man caught her eye, bowed, and rose.
— from The Lion's Share by Arnold Bennett

Even then Morgan could have escaped by a running dash, for those high-heeled horseback men were not much on foot.
— from Trail's End by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

Her disappearance—long a mystery to the Allies—was due to an internal explosion, just as she was about to crown her exploits by a raid on the island of Barbados.
— from A History of Sea Power by William Oliver Stevens

But it is not so clear that such raids and abductions, even when not of a genuinely hostile character, have ever been a recognized and constant method of marriage.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Havelock Ellis

A day or two later, the great soldier was celebrating his eightieth birthday, and received a letter from the officer in question.
— from In Good Company Some personal recollections of Swinburne, Lord Roberts, Watts-Dunton, Oscar Wilde Edward Whymper, S. J. Stone, Stephen Phillips by Coulson Kernahan

A clammy mist lay thick upon the surface of the lake, completely hiding everything beyond a radius of a dozen yards.
— from Tom Burnaby: A Story of Uganda and the Great Congo Forest by Herbert Strang

Finally, producing the Queen's commission, he ended by a ringing appeal to their united patriotism.
— from Elizabethan Sea-Dogs: A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions by William Charles Henry Wood