Ambrosio on his side did not feel less attracted towards the Youth; With him alone did He lay aside his habitual severity.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

The maritime country from the Propontis to the Mæander and the Isle of Rhodes, so long threatened and so often pillaged, was finally lost about the thirteenth year of Andronicus the Elder.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Now suppose, men, that you had a friend who for years had been faithful, loyal and true to you.
— from The Boy Chums Cruising in Florida Waters or, The Perils and Dangers of the Fishing Fleet by Wilmer M. (Wilmer Mateo) Ely

Small, well-shaped fingers, tapering nicely, but with a sort of firm look about them that you don't often see in a woman's hands.
— from The Diva's Ruby by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

So your mother is nonsense; a pretty lesson for Lady Annabel to teach you.
— from Venetia by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The male also takes at least a 204 share in hatching the eggs; but the female likewise attends to the young.
— from The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. II (1st Edition) by Charles Darwin

Travelling from Los Angeles to Tucson, you can, if you choose, sleep under a roof almost every night, providing you have good teams.
— from Overland Tales by Josephine Clifford

But since the supplemental returns in this case are all in, and we learn that old Mr. Utley was a drunken bulldozer who would take the farm horses and go off to town on a three days' drunk, leaving the young man to do all the work, and come back complaining because the work was not done, and if the boy attempted to explain, he would be knocked down with a stick of cord wood, and that on this occasion he was engaged in trying to dissect young Utley with a butcher knife, claiming that he was going to hang his hide on the fence, and cut out his liver and stomach, and other things that Dr. Tanner has given a furlough, and that the young man shot his father just to keep peace in the family, and to save his own life, and that there were four quarts of raw whisky in the old man's panjandrum when he turned up his toes, we feel like apologizing to the young man and telling him that he did his country a great service in wiping out his sire, baby mine.
— from Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

The male also takes at least a share in hatching the eggs; but the female likewise attends to the young.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

She stands there with that faint smile on her face, looking at the two young people.
— from A Family Man : in three acts by John Galsworthy

Think, sir, what'll happen in the first gale, even if our food lasts, and then take your choice.
— from Highway Pirates; or, The Secret Place at Coverthorne by Harold Avery