"and, directly, a table comes up laid out with meat and wine, and everything of the best, much better than we have; and as soon as she has had enough she says: "'Little kid, milk Table, depart!' "and all goes away directly, as I clearly saw.
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

Her proposition [260] was pleasing unto all and she, after summoning the seneschal and taking counsel with him of things needful, arising from session, blithely dismissed all the company until supper-time.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Taking this for my text, I descanted on the insufficiency of the treaties concluded with the Tycoon, which confined us to commercial intercourse with the inhabitants of his dominions, and thus cut us off from relations with a good half of the country.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Dr. Cathcart then likewise turned in, weariness and sleep still fighting in his mind with an obscure curiosity to know what it was that had scared Défago about the country up Fifty Island Water way,—wondering, too, why Punk's presence had prevented the completion of what Hank had to say.
— from The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

She has heard that somewhere, in some manner, something is to be done for the poor: "God send it soon; for the dues and taxes crush us down ( nous ecrasent )!"
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Maybe you've already got a clear idea of what you're doing and Titorelli could upset your plans.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

Professor Dewey applied to Columbia University for a year’s leave of absence, which was granted, and with Mrs. Dewey, is still in China.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

I pushed my precautions so far as to order her to keep the child in the house during the daytime, and to cover up her little face and hands so that even those who might see her at the window should not gossip about there being a black child in the neighborhood.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The end was that she was driven out of her kingdom by the commons, fled to the isles for safety, and turned her back, without a blow, upon the Danes as they came up.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

And the populace of Syracuse came day by day, holding lemons to their noses, to look down at them curiously, until there was not one movement, not one sound from any one of the seven thousand.
— from Seekers in Sicily: Being a Quest for Persephone by Jane and Peripatetica by Anne Hoyt

The plays of a later date, and the conditions under which they were produced, owed little or nothing beyond a trifling debt to their forerunners.
— from Shakespeare and the Stage With a Complete List of Theatrical Terms Used by Shakespeare in His Plays and Poems, Arranged in Alphabetical Order, & Explanatory Notes by Maurice Jonas

With the progress of the disease and the constant use of the sound foot it also begins to show signs of trouble, and the lameness which had hitherto been confined to the one now appears in the other.
— from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906 by Various

The judge having heard Mrs. Careful’s story, desired her to sit down; and then calling up Master Luckless, asked him what he had to say for himself.
— from Evenings at Home; Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened by John Aikin

Thus it was that when Terence wakened from his nap, he found himself deserted, and thrown completely upon his own resources.
— from Strangers at Lisconnel by Jane Barlow

These are the data and the calculations upon which the conclusion is based.
— from Olga Romanoff by George Chetwynd Griffith

Then she manoeuvred so well that she persuaded him to go and lie down, and to count upon her, her people, and upon the valet Douglas had left.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

The French were hurled over the crest and went down the hill, carrying confusion and dismay among those climbing up.
— from With Moore at Corunna by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

When he again unclosed his eyes, the man had ceased to look in his direction; and then, calling up his strength, he slowly backed, inch by inch, upon his hands and knees, till the descending nature of the ground took him below the edge which overhung the depression where the convicts were seated.
— from Midnight Webs by George Manville Fenn