Elsie grew very restless, and did not at all like the feeling of being locked up away from Duncan.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

I doubt matters do not go very right there.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

These chiefs, at each general assembly of the Leudes , or great vassals, received presents of money, of arms, of horses, and of various objects of home or of foreign manufacture.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

The mountains of this circular ( girwa ) valley, ranging from eight to twelve hundred feet in height, are of primitive formation, and raise their fantastic pinnacles in every diversity of shape over each other.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Each chief took an arm of Jagmall, and with gentle violence removed him to a seat in front of the ‘cushion’ he had occupied; the hereditary premier remarking, “You had made a mistake, Maharaj; that place belongs to your brother”: and girding Partap with the sword (the privilege of this house), thrice touching the ground, hailed him king of Mewar.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

2.7; goodness, virtue, Ro. 3.12.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant, U. S. GRANT, Lieutenant-General.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The sergeant reported that Karpov had forgotten the new cords for the trumpets and the rings for the tents, and that their honours, the officers, had spent the previous evening visiting General Von Rabbek.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The blinded giant now groped vainly round his cave in hopes of laying hands on some of his tormentors; but wearied at length of these fruitless exertions he rolled away the rock which closed the aperture, thinking that his victims would rush out with the sheep, when it would Page 310
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

In the same place, also, beside the said Pope, he portrayed Cardinal Niccola da Prato, who had come to Florence at that time as Legate of the said Pontiff, as Giovanni Villani relates in his History.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

The BARK is brownish-gray, one inch or more thick, and generally very rough with many scale-like or warty projections of dead bark.
— from Forest Trees of Texas: How to Know Them by C. B. (Cyril Bertram) Webster

After the evening meal she took it into the back compartment and offered it some food, but it would not eat, and then she gave it her breast and it grew very rapidly and she became very fond of it, as if it were her child, and as time went on her whole life seemed to be absorbed by her pet which she kept secreted.
— from The Whale House of the Chilkat by George Thornton Emmons

Mr Gladstone, with great vehemence, repelled the charge of combination, evidently meaning to answer attacks made out of the House....
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

Gladys vividly recalled Pauline's strange look and manner.
— from The Cost by David Graham Phillips

Sir you haue done this in the feare of God very religiously: and as a certaine Father saith Ped.
— from Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare

With the timidity of a neophyte in presence of a man of genius, Vervelle risked giving Fougeres an invitation to come out to his country-house on the following Sunday.
— from Pierre Grassou by Honoré de Balzac

At Mollendo the landing is generally very rough and the rollers very heavy till you get right in near the jetty; sometimes passengers have to be lowered down in baskets and occasionally they cannot be landed at all, but on this occasion the sea was calm.
— from Adventures in Bolivia by C. H. (Cecil Herbert) Prodgers

On the 17th took place the surrender of Burgoyne, and General Vaughan returned down the Hudson with his fleet to New York.
— from Forest, Rock, and Stream A series of twenty steel line-engravings by Nathaniel Parker Willis

A deep, gruff voice represented a gentleman talking, and a high, squeaky voice, a lady.
— from Dick and Dolly by Carolyn Wells

"No, I thought I couldn't, Lu; and oh, I'm so ashamed!" said Max, growing very red and tears starting to his eyes.
— from Grandmother Elsie by Martha Finley