"I will, please God," answered Sancho, and the two retiring to one side of the road set themselves to observe closely what all these moving lights might be; and very soon afterwards they made out some twenty encamisados, all on horseback, with lighted torches in their hands, the awe-inspiring aspect of whom completely extinguished the courage of Sancho, who began to chatter with his teeth like one in the cold fit of an ague; and his heart sank and his teeth chattered still more when they perceived distinctly that behind them there came a litter covered over with black and followed by six more mounted figures in mourning down to the very feet of their mules—for they could perceive plainly they were not horses by the easy pace at which they went.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Sir Thomas was as joyful as she could desire, and very kind and communicative; and she had so comfortable a talk with him about William as to make her feel as if nothing had occurred to vex her, till she found, towards the close, that Mr. Crawford was engaged to return and dine there that very day.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Thou thoughtest to do this treason very secretly; but, perdie, 156 one knoweth as much as another; thou hast not availed to compass thine end; I have had better beagles at thy heels than thou thoughtest.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

The community of Genoa decreed that the victory should be commemorated by the annual
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

—Having thus sketched the central portion of Rajasthan, or that eastward of the Aravalli, I shall give a rapid general [48] view of that to the west, conducting the reader over the ‘Thal ka Tiba,’ or ‘sand hills’ of the desert, to the valley of the Indus.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Welcomed by Odin’s sons, Hermod and Bragi, the heroes were conducted to the foot of Odin’s throne, where they received the praise due to their valour.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed copier of the Encyclopaedia down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Though there are four convents, there is but one parochial church in the whole town; I had not an opportunity of taking its exact dimensions, but it is pretty easy to make a tolerable conjecture of ’em—for as there are fourteen thousand inhabitants in the town, if the church holds them all it must be considerably large—and if it will not—’tis a very great pity they have not another—it is built in form 254 of a cross, and dedicated to the Virgin Mary; the steeple, which has a spire to it, is placed in the middle of the church, and stands upon four pillars elegant and light enough, but sufficiently strong at the same time—it is decorated with eleven altars, most of which are rather fine than beautiful.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

We took all possible precautions, sleeping on deck throughout the voyage, and never going below unless it was absolutely necessary to bring up food and water.
— from Hair-Breadth Escapes: The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by H. C. (Henry Cadwallader) Adams

"He certainly takes his time now in coming down," thought the visitor.
— from Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 by Various

FULL-SIZE -- Medium-Size He went running from one to another to get them back, especially exhorting the people from the impériale, and pointing out to them the danger to the vehicle, which was leaning back, and so needed ballast in front.
— from A Tour Through the Pyrenees by Hippolyte Taine

This result may be explained as due to the very character of primitive humanity.
— from The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau

As distributed through the various parts of the thirteen original states, they may be mentioned, as to their confederacies or tribes, in the following order: In the central and southern parts of New England there were five principal tribes: the Wampanoags or Pokanokets, the Pawtuckets, the Massachusetts, the Narragansets, and the Pequods.
— from Great Events in the History of North and South America by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Goodrich

The bill winds up with an item of 21 l. for “passing documents through the various offices.”
— from Knowledge for the Time A Manual of Reading, Reference, and Conversation on Subjects of Living Interest, Useful Curiosity, and Amusing Research by John Timbs

The fire, burning in the small pit in the center of the room, sent the smoke up through the hole in the roof, and the fresh air was drawn down through the ventilator shaft.
— from Mesa Verde [Colorado] National Park by Anonymous

Mendelssohn in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and Weber in "Oberon," have given us glimpses of dreamland, but Chopin's nocturnes take us there bodily, and plunge us into reveries more delicious than the visions of an opium eater.
— from Chopin and Other Musical Essays by Henry T. Finck

In due time the victor was ceremoniously given a prize.
— from The Boys' Life of Lafayette by Helen Nicolay