He also advised me to be silent henceforth on the subject of my freedom; for, knowing the character of Burch, he assured me
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

There is some private talk carried on betwixt him and Mrs. Jervis, that she don't tell me of; but yet she is very kind to me, and I don't mistrust her at all.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Poor Anne could only blush horribly and murmur, “not very lately,” which was taken by all, Mrs. Blythe included, to be merely a maidenly evasion.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

One afternoon, a little before the close of business hours, a man in the uniform of a policeman entered the bank and asked for the cashier.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox

The conversation of Bernardo, Horatio, and Marcellus, on the subject of Hamlet’s ghost, affords a good illustration of this:— “ Bern.
— from The Ornithology of Shakespeare Critically examined, explained and illustrated by James Edmund Harting

He stood with two youths but little older than himself, and Page 300 the comradeship of battle had already made them friends.
— from The Texan Scouts: A Story of the Alamo and Goliad by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

He took the chance of being heard, and made a swift dash for the boat.
— from Under Fire For Servia by James Fiske

She chattered about her adventures till Marian could have repeated every word of her conversation with the Captain off by heart, and might have given a pretty accurate inventory of his possessions, or at least the portion of them that Jane had seen.
— from Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Lily Munsell Ritchie

Copyright Detroit Publishing Company OLD BLOCK HOUSE AND MISSION POINT, FORT MICHILLIMACKINAC RESERVATION, MACKINAC ISLAND, MICHIGAN Thus captured by the British, the post was a most important stronghold for them during the continuance of the conflict between the two countries.
— from Quaint and Historic Forts of North America by John Martin Hammond