I am afraid her absence now may deprive her of one pleasure, for that silly Mr. Hammond is actually to give his ball on Friday.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

But when the tribunes answered his threats by vowing that they would fine him fifty thousand drachmas unless he ceased his interference with the people's right of voting, he retired to his own house, and after a few days laid down his office on pretence of sickness.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

In a remote and terror-inspiring angle was a square enclosure of eight or ten feet, comprising the sanctum, “during hours,” of our principal, the Reverend Dr. Bransby.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

And when the king was alighted off his horse he yode straight unto Sir Launcelot's chamber and there he found his daughter, and then the king embraced Sir Launcelot in his arms, and either made other good cheer. Anon Sir Launcelot made his complaint unto the king how he was betrayed, and how his brother Sir Lionel was departed from him he wist not where, and how his daughter had delivered him out of prison; Therefore while I live I shall do her service and all her kindred.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

[72] Having endeavoured by every means to prevent that, when all other attempts had been tried in vain, when the consul was now holding the door-post during his offering of prayer to the gods, they suddenly announce to him the shocking intelligence that his son was dead, and that his family being defiled [73] he could not dedicate the temple.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

—God, willing to deprive His own of perishable blessings, created the Jewish people in order to show that this was not owing to lack of power.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

in these words: “The king granteth to Robert Clifford that messuage, with the appurtenances, next the church of St. Dunstane in the West, in the suburbs of London, which messuage was sometime Malculines de Herley, and came to the hands of Edward I., by reason of certaine debts which the said Malculine was bound at the time of his death to our styde father, from the time that hee was escaetor on this side Trent; which house John, Earle of Richmount, did holde of our pleasure, and is now in our possession.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Then to deliver himself of one prolonged shout—no more.
— from Forward from Babylon by Louis Golding

Both the men knew the drunken habits of old Poniatovsky, so that they silently sympathised with her, and there was a pause as they watched other miners coming in.
— from A Girl of the Klondike by Victoria Cross

These had been at first Count Witte, who in his hatred of the men who had driven him out of power had willingly lent himself to the conspiracy which transformed the Empress into one of the most active agents the Kaiser had ever had at his disposal in Russia.
— from Confessions of the Czarina by Radziwill, Catherine, Princess

Don't use hair dye, hair oil or pomades.
— from Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics by B. G. (Benjamin Grant) Jefferis

After she had been in prison three or four days, she made means to the Governor and submitted herself, and acknowledged her fault in disturbing the church; whereupon he took her husband's bond for her good behavior, and discharged her out of prison.
— from Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by George Francis Dow

In a remote and terror-inspiring angle was a square inclosure of eight or ten feet, comprising the sanctum , 'during hours,' of our principal, the Reverend Dr. Bransby.
— from International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various

The people all came flocking to church, and Tetzel, ascending the pulpit, begins: "Dearly beloved, true I had intended to depart this very day, but last night I heard in your church-yard a poor soul moaning and weeping miserably, and imploring some one to come to her relief, and deliver her out of purgatory.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various