Doctor, a gouty, of Carthage, miraculously healed, ii.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

On the left there was the Place de la Bastille, dark and gloomy; one could see nothing there, but one could feel a crowd; regiments were there in battle array; they did not bivouac, they were ready to march; the muffled sound of breathing could be heard; the square was full of that glistening shower of pale sparks which bayonets give forth at night time.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

The table was laid for supper with two golden plates, and golden spoons and forks, and the sideboard was covered with dishes and glasses of crystal set with precious stones.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

However, the Monkey gave Pai Ma a blow with his rod, causing him to start forward at a great pace, and in a few minutes from the brow of a hill Hsüan Chuang espied in the distance a grove of cypress-trees, beneath the shade of which was a large enclosure.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Keeping his eyes fixed on Anna, he drank a glass of champagne and paid a hundred roubles for it, then drank some tea and gave another hundred—all this without saying a word, as he was short of breath through asthma. .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

This marriage, which she regretted later, was resolved upon during a game of cards with the Bishop of Persepolis, as a result of the anger which she felt on learning that M. Longueville, on whom she had centred her affections, was only a merchant.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

NAMED HANSON—MY DEAR AND GOOD OLD COLORED FRIEND, LAWSON—HIS CHARACTER AND OCCUPATION—HIS INFLUENCE OVER ME—OUR MUTUAL ATTACHMENT—THE COMFORT I DERIVED FROM HIS TEACHING—NEW HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS—
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Then he went back to the inn and drank a glass of cider to cool himself.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

It is a day which shall burn like an oven, and the strong man shall cry therein mightily; it is a day of darkness and gloominess, of clouds and thick darkness.
— from The Four Roads by Sheila Kaye-Smith

‘I can’t make this out,’ said he, when he came home from the play one night, and was drinking a glass of cold grog, with his back to the wall, in order that he mightn’t be able to fancy there was any one behind him—‘I can’t make it out,’ said he; and just then his eyes rested on the little closet that had been always locked up, and a shudder ran through his whole frame from top to toe.
— from The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 1 (of 2) by Charles Dickens

Riquier could not drink a glass of claret and milk without immediately suffering from indigestion.
— from Mont Oriol; or, A Romance of Auvergne: A Novel by Guy de Maupassant

[Pg 139] Indignant Ratepayers A week later Punch published another letter from another "Indignant Ratepayer," deprecating the congratulations as premature and indiscreet:— I, too, Mr. Punch , am a ratepayer; I have seen my rates trebled since the creation of the School Board; and I am now told that I ought to thank my stars that, after sixteen years' work, they have at length displayed a glimmering of common sense.
— from Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 3 (of 4).—1874-1892 by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

Drills and gravers of copper have also been found, with chisel-shaped edges or sharp points.
— from Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly

Dupont brought his fist down on the table, drank a glass of champagne, and cried: "Upon my word, you're laughing at me!
— from Frédérique, vol. 2 by Paul de Kock

My object in taking this house was twofold: I wanted to prove to my friends that it was possible to take one of the darkest and grimiest of city houses and make it an abode of sunshine and light, and I wanted to furnish the whole house exactly as I pleased—for once!
— from The House in Good Taste by Elsie De Wolfe

Nowhere did a gleam of cheerful light break in.
— from The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney by Samuel Warren

In about ten minutes add by degrees a gallon of cold water.
— from What a Young Woman Ought to Know by Mary Wood-Allen