We had now become acquainted with the Satsuma agents in Yedo; the rusui (as the principal representative of a daimiô was called)
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

When her death warrant came from London, she sent for some friends, whom she consulted in what manner her death might be more glorious to the name of God, and injurious to the cause of God's enemies.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Pay in gold was authorized, and stations on the Mississippi River and on the railroad in our possession had to be designated where cotton would be received.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

As she was eagerly telling her godmother whatever had passed at the ball, her two sisters knocked at the door, which Cinderella ran and opened.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

“I was in this room next to them,” she explained; “both doors were closed, but I suddenly heard a voice, such as I had never heard on earth, roaring ‘Hell, hell, hell,’ again and again, and then the two doors shook with the first explosion of the revolver.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

And these two being put together, are that infinite duration we call ETERNITY which, as we turn our view either way, forwards or backward appears infinite, because we still turn that way the infinite end of number, i.e. the power still of adding more.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

What may go wrong? ————————— A setting that works beautifully when calling one bulletin board, may be a disaster when calling another service.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

The prince leaped to his feet, extending his hand in the direction whence came the sound, there was no mistaking it--it was the noise of cannon.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

What should I do, what can I do, my dear Charlotte?" said he.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The terms of the challenge that has passed between them have appeared like a sort of advertisement in the local paper, and are to the effect that they are to fight at a certain distance with certain weapons—fire-arms, of course; that there is to be on the person of each a white paper, or mark, immediately over the region of the heart, as a point for direct aim; and whoever kills the other is to have the privilege of cutting off his head, and sticking it up on a pole on the piece of land which was the origin of the debate ; so that, some fine day, I might have come hither as I did to-day and found myself riding under the shadow of the gory locks of Dr. H—— or Mr. W——, my peaceful and pleasant neighbours.
— from Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839 by Fanny Kemble

“Is she thy master’s daughter?” demanded Dennet, who could admit the claims of another princess.
— from The Armourer's Prentices by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

How strange it is, too, that, to enforce this sense of desolation, sad dishevelled weeds cling ever to such antique masonry!
— from New Italian sketches by John Addington Symonds

The double wiper cam, Fig. 92 , has, in some mechanism, a pronounced difference between the lengths of the two fingers which form the wipers.
— from Motors by James Slough Zerbe

They were naked, their bodies daubed with clay and their hair and faces painted!
— from A Young Folks' History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Nephi Anderson

Fifty deserters were condemned, but their execution temporarily delayed by the officer in charge, that they might see the stars and stripes run up over the falling castle of Chapultepec, and their last gaze on earth be fixed, as well on the faithful valor of their comrades, as on the flag they had shamelessly forsaken.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various

Every moment of delay was calamitous.
— from My Lady Nobody: A Novel by Maarten Maartens

But the slice of half baked dough was cleverly and neatly slipped off the board and happily put in its place again with the right side out; and little Winifred, who had watched the operation anxiously, said with a breath of satisfaction and in her slow utterance, "There — Governor can do anything!"
— from Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner

Florian did the same: the band struck up a gallop: the old squire's Babbett ran up and danced with Constantine, Crescence and Florian followed suit, and all were once more in motion.
— from Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach