Returning to his house, a prey to utter despair, he had snatched up his revolver, and then did not dare to fire it.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Dr. Huxtable had sent a telegram.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

As they drove home, he sat near to her.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The Lord of Lies, saith [1222] Austin, as he was deceived himself, he seeks to deceive others, the ringleader to all naughtiness, as he did by Eve and Cain, Sodom and Gomorrah, so would he do by all the world.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

To quiet these apprehensions, Odin took her to Hindarfiall or Hindfell, and touching her with the Thorn of Sleep, that she might await in unchanged youth and beauty the coming of her destined husband, he surrounded her with a barrier of flame which none but a hero would venture through.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

For the Catholic faith holds that our body, raised by the glory of immortality, is indeed rendered subtile by the effect of spiritual power, but is palpable by the reality of nature; according to the example of our Lord's Body, concerning which, when risen from the dead, He Himself says to His disciples, “Handle Me and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see Me have.”
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

The first chance we got, the duke he had some show bills printed; and after that, for two or three days as we floated along, the raft was a most uncommon lively place, for there warn’t nothing but sword-fighting and rehearsing—as the duke called it—going on all the time.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

His own penetration at once pointed out the canal through which this misfortune had flowed upon him; he forthwith placed the calamity to the account of the Tyrolese, and never doubting that he had retired with the booty across the Rhine, into some place to which he knew Fathom would not follow his footsteps, he formed the melancholy resolution of pursuing with all despatch his journey to Paris, that he might, with all convenient expedition, indemnify himself for the discomfiture he had sustained.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Next to Miss Drexal, he had singled her out as being particularly worthy of his faithful service.
— from The Camp Fire Girls at Driftwood Heights by Margaret Love Sanderson

"Tonight," Drake heard him say in a low voice.
— from Queen of the Flaming Diamond by Leroy Yerxa

Daniel held his squirming victims over the pot, and not without a qualm of pity dropped them into the boiling water.
— from The Puritan Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

To distract himself he sang the songs taught him by his troubadour, to the accompaniment of the harp, says both history and legend, until one day the faithful Blondel, who was pursuing his way up and down the length of Europe in search of his royal master, appeared before his window.
— from The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

When the king had given this answer and dismissed the messenger with due honours, he said to his son, and Śrutadhi, and the kings, “We had better go now to Ayodhyá; that is the place where the marriage can be performed with most éclat ; and there we can entertain Susheṇa with becoming magnificence.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

For sum of thame perceaving we began to faynt, and that we wald appoint with inequall conditionis, said, "God hath wonderfullie assisted us in our greatest dangeris: He hath strikin fear in the hartis of our ennemeis, when thai supposed thame selffis most assured of victorie: our case is nocht yit sa disperat that we nead to grant to thingis unreasonable and ungodlie; whiche, yf we do, it is to be feared that thingis sall nocht so prosperouslie succeid as thai have done heirtofoir."
— from The Works of John Knox, Volume 1 (of 6) by John Knox

Her father was standing quite near her now, and he smoothed down her hair softly with his hand, as he said, 'Jessie, have you ever thought what a sweet and happy thing love is when it has overcome jealousy?
— from Holiday Tales by Florence Wilford

Digitalis: in large doses has had some success.
— from Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica by Merck & Co.

Not only for fourteen years, but for the duration of a man's life, was that kind of brain property protected, and even after his death his heirs still continued to derive benefit from it.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 by Various