He simply defied and sent home every Diet which opposed him.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Her limbs dragged and shuffled, her eyes dimmed and bleared, and only the little children found joy against the withered cheek of the old squaw by the fire.
— from Children of the Frost by Jack London

Sir Robert Napier arrived here with his personal staff the day before yesterday, having been five days en route , spending one day carefully examining each station, inquiring, as is his custom, into every detail, and seeing how each department worked.
— from The March to Magdala by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

At prayer she knelt as meekly, and with as much apparent devotion as she had ever done in the days of her most rational and earnest piety.
— from Jane Sinclair; Or, The Fawn Of Springvale The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

For her shame, night and day, was that she still cared, cared, yes, as deeply as she had ever done—that caring must die.
— from The Duchess of Wrexe, Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary by Hugh Walpole

She loved her father as dearly as she had ever done, and longed ardently to see him again; but she knew as well as I did that our independence must end with his return.
— from Milly Darrell by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

He sympathized with him in his too apparent disappointment and shared his earnest desire to introduce an apparatus that would be the means of saving the lives of many sea-faring men.
— from The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World by Paul Boyton

To these coarse and mean people he addresses himself with a multitude of words and a lengthy discourse, a subject he elsewhere disposes of in a few words; for instance, where he says (Phil 2, 3-4), "In lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself; not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others."
— from Epistle Sermons, Vol. 2: Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by Martin Luther