In what he undertook, in this line, he looked fate in the face, and had a cool, keen look at the relation of means to ends.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Let's see—well, I remember his first name now, Mike Howard, and Charles Kunkel, Lee Gopadze was there part of the time.
— from Warren Commission (01 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

The man by his side looked with his bowed head and clasped knee like a masculine rendering of mournful meditation.
— from The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows by Joseph Conrad

The stout fox held bravely on; but the pack, racing for blood, with hardly a check, kept lessening his lead as moor and croft were left behind.
— from Wild Life at the Land's End Observations of the Habits and Haunts of the Fox, Badger, Otter, Seal, Hare and of Their Pursuers in Cornwall by J. C. (John Coulson) Tregarthen

He commences by saying that he, a chief ( ka lani ), does not disdain to work as a simple fisherman.
— from Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff

We had a chauffeur killed last week.
— from The Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities by Stephen Leacock

The Ostend captain was there when I came aboard, and I fancied, though I then knew not why, that he and Captain Kirby looked at one another in a very strange and peculiar manner when I entered the cabin.
— from The Rose of Paradise Being a detailed account of certain adventures that happened to captain John Mackra, in connection with the famous pirate, Edward England, in the year 1720, off the Island of Juanna in the Mozambique Channel; writ by himself, and now for the first time published by Howard Pyle

The eye of the fifer rested upon Albert with an expression almost amounting to disdain: "Such gentlemen as you," he answered, "certainly know little of the pain of banishment; you never experienced the horror of being obliged to conceal yourself from the hand of the assassin, shivering in damp caves, living in inhospitable caverns, among the society of owls, deprived of a warm meal and a cheering glass!
— from The Banished: A Swabian Historical Tale by Wilhelm Hauff

Pitt had proscribed him; Newcastle did not love him; the Duke of Devonshire was too cautious to join him; and Conway, knowing Lord George had been his enemy, though it had never come to an open rupture, would not listen to any connection with him, but pleaded the stains on his character, and the enmity borne to him by Prince Ferdinand.
— from Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 1 (of 4) by Horace Walpole