“Oh, I don’t mind,” grinned Howard, and Dorothy immediately put him down as a good sport.
— from Dorothy Dixon and the Double Cousin by Dorothy Wayne

What prevents any comparison between the past pillaging and the looting practiced by Staff Rosenberg or the National Socialist chiefs, is the difference in purpose, however difficult and delicate a matter it may be to analyze it.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 7 by Various

Once, at the table of Mr. Coutts the banker, Mrs. Coutts, dressed like Morgiana, came dancing in, presenting her dagger at every breast.
— from Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Shearjashub Spooner

And there were we two, he stretched on the deck, I pinning him down, and both of us breathing hard, and gazing each into the other's eyes.
— from A Gentleman-at-Arms: Being Passages in the Life of Sir Christopher Rudd, Knight by Herbert Strang

There had been delay in purchasing his discharge, and he found that he would have to wait until August.
— from Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by James Oliver Curwood

Four days after she had settled down in Paris, Hortense Daniel agreed to meet Prince Rénine in the Bois.
— from The Eight Strokes of the Clock by Maurice Leblanc

He also wrote a book upon the Mass in the quiet of these early days; and was diligent in performing his duties and visiting the poor, to whom he was always full of charity.
— from The Makers of Modern Rome, in Four Books by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

15 After these reflections, the king spent that day in performing his duties, and went at night to sift his other wife Ayaśolekhá.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

Mr. Dudley, in particular, has described an orignal to the Royal Society, which had been killed by some hunters, that was more than ten feet high; a stature requisite to carry the horns which La Hontan has affirmed to weigh from three to four hundred pounds.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 08 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de