He then laid on the table his episcopal decorations, and received a fraternal embrace from the president of the convention.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

I staid not there, but to my office, where Stanes the glazier was with me till to at night making up his contract, and, poor man, I made him almost mad through a mistake of mine, but did afterwards reconcile all, for I would not have the man that labours to serve the King so cheap above others suffer too much.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I rambled round the hamlet, going sometimes to a little distance and returning again, for an hour or more.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Monsignor called out the best that he had thought by question and suggestion, and Amory talked with an ingenious brilliance of a thousand impulses and desires and repulsions and faiths and fears.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Similarly, the evolution of a "thing," of a custom, is anything but its progressus to an end, still less a logical and direct progressus attained with the minimum expenditure of energy and cost: it is rather the succession of processes of subjugation, more or less profound, more or less mutually independent, which operate on the thing itself; it is, further, the resistance which in each case invariably displayed this subjugation, the Protean wriggles by way of defence and reaction, and, further, the results of successful counter-efforts.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Through tatter’d clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furr’d gowns hide all.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

After first consulting the god at Delphi and receiving a favourable answer, they sent off the colonists, Spartans, and Perioeci, inviting also any of the rest of the Hellenes who might wish to accompany them, except Ionians, Achaeans, and certain other nationalities; three Lacedaemonians leading as founders of the colony, Leon, Alcidas, and Damagon.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

The first part of his history had not yet reached him, for, had he read it, the amazement with which his words and deeds filled him would have vanished, as he would then have understood the nature of his madness; but knowing nothing of it, he took him to be rational one moment, and crazy the next, for what he said was sensible, elegant, and well expressed, and what he did, absurd, rash, and foolish; and said he to himself, "What could be madder than putting on a helmet full of curds, and then persuading oneself that enchanters are softening one's skull; or what could be greater rashness and folly than wanting to fight lions tooth and nail?"
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

But Ragnar's sons, Dunwat and Radbard, after fighting nobly, were slain by the enemy.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

So in the evening they departed, and rode as fast as they could till they came near the mount, and there alighted; and the king commanded the two knights to await him at the hill foot, while he went up alone.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Here they chant the Psalms of David, and read aloud from their prayer books and Hebrew Bibles.
— from A Baptist Abroad: Travels and Adventures of Europe and all Bible Lands by Walter Andrew Whittle

But we are unskilled to derive any real advantage from history.
— from Four Early Pamphlets by William Godwin

She picked up the sari and the dagger, and ran a finger along the razor edge, looking sideways at the man who moved not an inch when she drove the point of the blade beneath the skin above his heart until the blood ran; neither did she move when he dipped his finger in his own blood and marked her between the brows with the sign of Kali.
— from Leonie of the Jungle by Joan Conquest

He then laid on the table his episcopal decorations, and received a fraternal embrace from the president of the Convention.
— from The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen Gould Harmon White

[1176] Within twenty-four hours after the receipt of this edict, all persons who had taken possession of churches were commanded, on penalty of death as rebels and felons, to vacate them, restoring whatever valuables they had removed, and replacing the images and crosses they had destroyed.
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

The change was of no avail, and he died at Rome a few weeks after, in his twenty-sixth year.
— from From Chaucer to Tennyson With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

A cold thrill of horror ran around from heart to heart, and it was well for the Fabenses that they did not arrive, or hear the cry, until a glance before the grieving company showed them the remains of a deer, and reserved a faint hope for the morrow.
— from Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by Day Kellogg Lee