With zeal worthy a good cause, Collardeau not only repeatedly wrote to this high dignitary, preferring his charges, but eventually crowned his energetic efforts by a journey to the capital, and by these means he succeeded in obtaining a commission from the bishop and the parliament of Bordeaux, with ample funds for carrying out his designs.
— from Palissy the Huguenot Potter: A True Tale by C. L. (Cecilia Lucy) Brightwell

In the record of his will we find the following, which will show you how our ancestors made their wills: Two mahogony tables, 1 square table, 16 leather bottom chairs, 1 mahogony desk, 7 looking glasses, 1 set of china (42 pieces), 1 coffee set (30 pieces), 34 linen sheets, 25 pair pillow cases, 1 pew in First Congregational Meeting House, 1 pew in Second Congregational House, etc., etc., besides a long list of notes and other properties.
— from Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends by Sophie Lee Foster

If anyone who threatened her liberty came along, she could hide easily enough behind a tree or a clump of bushes.
— from A Campfire Girl's First Council Fire The Camp Fire Girls In the Woods by Jane L. Stewart

From this place Porcia, intending to turn back to Rome, endeavoured to conceal her excessive emotion, but a painting made her betray herself though she was a noble-spirited woman.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4) by Plutarch

Wherever her eye turned a murmured sigh acknowledged how thoroughly the captivation held enthralled every bosom around, when suddenly, with a gesture that seemed like a cry—so full of piercing agony it seemed—she dashed her hands across her forehead and stared with aching eye-balls into vacancy,—it was jealousy: the terrible pang had shot through her heart, and she was wild.
— from Gerald Fitzgerald, the Chevalier: A Novel by Charles James Lever

The assignee’s act in the drama is intended to prove that every assignee is incorruptible, and that no collusion has ever existed between any of them and the bankrupt.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Ten commissioners were sent to assist Rupilius in the work, which henceforth bore the proconsul's name.[298] The work, as we know it, was of a conservative character; but it is possible that no complete charter had ever existed before, and the war may have revealed defects in the arrangements of Sicily that had heretofore been unsuspected.
— from A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge

A pressing summons to attend his Lordship in the Hills placed Macaulay in some embarrassment on account of his sister, who could not with safety commence her Eastern experiences by a journey of four hundred miles up the country in the middle of June.
— from Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1 by George Otto Trevelyan