His King David, the Restorer, bestowed on him large additional domains from the new conquests; and the like brilliant service and career of conquest was continued under David's sons and successors, Demetrius and George; his later achievements, however, and some of the most brilliant, occurring after the date of the Bishop of Gabala's visit to Rome.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

It was now the opinion, or rather the wish, of the physicians, that M. Valdemar should be suffered to remain undisturbed in his present apparently tranquil condition, until death should supervene—and this, it was generally agreed, must now take place within a few minutes.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

serious, sedate, staid, stayed; grave as a judge, grave as an undertaker, grave as a mustard pot; sober, sober as a judge, solemn, demure; grim; grim-faced, grim-visaged; rueful, wan, long-faced. disconsolate; unconsolable, inconsolable; forlorn, comfortless, desolate, desole[Fr], sick at heart; soul sick, heart sick; au desespoir[Fr]; in despair &c. 859; lost. overcome; broken down, borne down, bowed down; heartstricken &c (mental suffering) 828[obs3]; cut up, dashed, sunk; unnerved, unmanned; down fallen, downtrodden; broken-hearted; careworn.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Perhaps he even fooled himself; charlatans usually do so soon or late.
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Any robin could understand Dickon, so his presence was not even disturbing.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

When he had passed these, he came upon defiles surrounded on all sides with swamps, the interior of which was barred from easy approach by the pinnacle of a bank in front.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

"The letters of Napoleon can add nothing to his glory, but they better enable us to comprehend his prodigious destiny, the prestige that he exercised over his contemporaries—'le culte universel dont sa mémoire est l'objet, enfin, l'entraînement irrésistible par lequel la France a replacé sa dynastie au sommet de l'édifice qu'il avait construit.'
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

One of the younger leaders, “Joe” Murray, believed in him, became especially attached to him, and so continued until death separated them.
— from Theodore Roosevelt An Address Delivered by Henry Cabot Lodge Before the Congress of the United States by Henry Cabot Lodge

"Yes, massa," he exclaimed, "I'se jis turnin' over as you cum up de stair and striking a light with flint and tinder, he went down to the stable with his lantern.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

Thus the days passed in a deadening, cowing, unutterably depressing search for work.
— from Infatuation by Lloyd Osbourne

After wandering through the alleys and woods adjacent to the gardens, the author came upon Diotima seated beside Mathilda.
— from Mathilda by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I pushed through the undergrowth to take a keek at it, and came upon distinct signs of a beaten track, leading straight to the chimney.
— from The Blue Raider: A Tale of Adventure in the Southern Seas by Herbert Strang

93 Neuberg, Carl (1909), Chemische Umwandlungen durch Strahlenarten .
— from Alcoholic Fermentation Second Edition, 1914 by Arthur Harden