The passengers in the street below would discern her anxious visage and send up a shout: "When the golden Indian on the province-house shall shoot his arrow, and when the cock on the Old South spire shall crow, then look for a royal governor again!"
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Disappointed, however, and vexed as she was, and sometimes displeased with his uncertain behaviour to herself, she was very well disposed on the whole to regard his actions with all the candid allowances and generous qualifications, which had been rather more painfully extorted from her, for Willoughby's service, by her mother.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

] in the city, and stood in the aisle all the sermon, with great delight hearing a very admirable sermon, from a very young man, upon the article in our creed, in order of catechism, upon the Resurrection.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

7 And then the twelve disciples heard a voice, a still, small voice, and just one word was said, a word they dared not speak; it was the sacred name of God.
— from The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ The Philosophic and Practical Basis of the Religion of the Aquarian Age of the World and of The Church Universal by Levi

As soon as the prince saw her arrive, he ordered his high council to be called in, and presented his consort to them, declaring her as virtuous as she was fair.
— from Household stories from the Land of Hofer; or, Popular Myths of Tirol by Rachel Harriette Busk

Decide that he has gone daft, however, and venture a step too near,—presto!
— from Sigurd Our Golden Collie, and Other Comrades of the Road by Katharine Lee Bates

The GIRL wears a discreet dark dress, hat, and veil, and stained yellow gloves.
— from Complete Plays of John Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Then he drew himself away, violently, and sprang to his feet, turning on his friend: "Don't!—My God!
— from The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter

The passengers in the street below would discern her anxious visage, and send up a shout, "When the golden Indian on the Province House shall shoot his arrow, and when the cock on the Old South spire shall crow, then look for a Royal Governor again!"--for this had grown a byword through the town.
— from Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

However, even if they should cling to him most tenaciously, they would not he able to resist all the rest at once, but he will either lay down his arms voluntarily, as soon as he ascertains that you have passed this vote, and place himself in your hands, or he will be captured involuntarily as the result of one battle.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 3 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus by Cassius Dio Cocceianus