FAUSTUS, the knight was not present during Faustus's "conference" with the Emperor; nor did he offer the doctor any insult by doubting his skill in magic.
— from The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 by Christopher Marlowe

Dorian half opened the door.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Emily sat by her father, holding his hand, and, while she listened to the old man, her heart swelled with the affectionate sympathy he described, and her tears fell to the mournful consideration, that death would probably soon deprive her of the dearest blessing she then possessed.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Athamas, the son of Æolus, and great-grandson of Deucalion, having, on the death of Themisto, his first wife, married Ino, the daughter of Cadmus, divorced her soon afterwards, to marry Nephele, by whom he had Helle and Phryxus .
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

He recollected now many omens and presages of this happy event, some of which he had remarked at the time, but many more he now remembered; nor did he omit the dreams he had dreamt the evening before his meeting with Jones; and concluded with saying, “I always told your honour something boded in my mind that you would one time or other have it in your power to make my fortune.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Fifty men flew out on the dizzy heights of the different spars, while broad sheets of canvas rose as suddenly along the masts, as if some mighty bird were spreading its wings.
— from McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

Wholesale Departure H aving retired to her bedroom and divested herself of the deceitful peignoir , Pauline made her way, with all the precautions of secrecy, downstairs again, and so to the door which gave on the avenue.
— from The City of Pleasure: A Fantasia on Modern Themes by Arnold Bennett

"Beloved of the white woman, for such I know you to be, have you come here simply to carry her back to her own dwelling house, or to demand vengeance for the wrong done on her and all of you and your servants and slaves?
— from The Land of Bondage: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

Still less could he forget the significance of the shock she had dealt him on their day of parting.
— from Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Maud Diver

The supposition that the Messiah shall be born at the time of the deepest humiliation of the Davidic family, after the entire loss of the royal dignity, pervades all the other prophetical writings.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

In Greek and Latin he made little progress, and obtained little credit for talent or industry from his masters; but he has invoked his surviving school-fellows, in the Introduction to the last edition of the Waverley Novels, “to bear witness that I had a distinguished character for talent as a tale-teller, at a time when the applause of my companions was the recompense for the disgraces and punishments which the future romance-writer incurred for being idle himself, and keeping others idle, during hours of the day that should have been employed upon our tasks.”
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 7 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

] Note 537 ( return ) [ Whittle's Diary; History of the Desertion; Luttrell's Diary.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Don Diego heard of this disaster through the Indians, and grieved at the fate of his scouts, though without letting others know it.
— from The War of Chupas by Pedro de Cieza de León

My limits will not admit of a detailed history of the debate.
— from The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper

One of the Mamelukes had first built this wing for his favorite wife—she had been poisoned by her rival and died, here, on that divan, the narrator indicated, with a negligent gesture.
— from The Palace of Darkened Windows by Mary Hastings Bradley