For three days Robin abided in London in the Queen's household, and at the end of that time the King's head Page, Edward Cunningham, came, and taking Robin with him, departed northward upon his way to Sherwood.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

He has indeed one good quality: he is not exceptious, for he so passionately affects the reputation of understanding raillery that he will construe an affront into a jest, and call downright rudeness and ill language satire and fire.
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

There lay she all her length and kissed his feet, As if in deepest reverence and in love.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Then, passing down the green elopes of the hills, it lit up the valley, with its dusty road, and its little farmhouse nestling on the left at the foot of the steep incline.
— from With Rifle and Bayonet: A Story of the Boer War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

Dear Sir ,—Your favor of October 18th has been duly received, and I learn with great pleasure the progress you have
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 6 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

Guntram kills Duke Robert, and immediately lets fall his sword.
— from Musicians of To-Day by Romain Rolland

The tent, in which Dr. Richardson and I lodged having caught fire from some embers that had been placed in it to expel the mosquitoes, was entirely burnt.
— from The Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin

I told the captain that I agreed with him that the British were the scum of Europe, the westward drift of all the people, a disgusting rabble, and I lost three pounds by attenuated retail to Pollack at ha’penny nap and euchre.
— from Tono-Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Note to Instructor: Spend rest of period in familiarizing pupils with laying down runs and intersecting lines of position on Mercator plotting charts.
— from Lectures in Navigation by Ernest Gallaudet Draper

Then, suddenly, the air was full of darting ropes and in less time than it takes to tell of it the pair were hopelessly and helplessly trussed.
— from The Orphan by Clarence Edward Mulford