The lieutenant-governor had roused himself from his abstracted mood, and listened with a smile to the conversation of his young relatives.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

However, as my arable land was but small, suited to my crop, I got it totally well fenced in about three weeks’ time; and shooting some of the creatures in the daytime, I set my dog to guard it in the night, tying him up to a stake at the gate, where he would stand and bark all night long; so in a little time the enemies forsook the place, and the corn grew very strong and well, and began to ripen apace.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

During such a time, a woman is kept entirely away from the camp, half a mile at least.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

But man or beast, it will be wise to stay here a minute and let it get by and out of the way.”
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

How Antiochus Made A League With Ptolemy And How Onias Provoked Ptolemy Euergetes To Anger; And How Joseph Brought All Things Right Again, And Entered Into Friendship With Him; And What Other Things Were Done By Joseph, And His Son Hyrcanus.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

In Cornwall Strikingly like Brittany in physical aspects, Southern and Western Cornwall is a land of the sea, of rolling plains and moorlands rather than of high hills and mountains, a land of golden-yellow furze-bloom, where noisy crowds of black crows and white sea-gulls mingle together over the freshly-turned or new-sown fields, and where in the spring-time the call of the cuckoo is heard with the song of the skylark.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Something strong enough to hold a man and long enough to let us down into the garden, and then down over the wall.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I would in this affair have a man a little play the child, the timorous, and the servant.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

With that came the eleven kings, and there was Griflet put to the earth, horse and man, and Lucas the butler, horse and man, by King Brandegoris, and King Idres, and King Agwisance.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

So they laid up his songs in their hearts; and many a long year after, when they were grown men far away, and some danger or difficulty stood in their path, the drift of his teaching would come back to them in the words of a song, and their hearts would grow brave and strong once more to act worthily of their boyhood's sunny days on Pelion.
— from Children of the Dawn : Old Tales of Greece by E. F. (Elsie Finnimore) Buckley

The sight of Thako made me shrink back for a moment, but I overcame all hesitation, and making a low obeisance I took the dust of my elder sister-in-law's feet.
— from The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore

Madam Bess hated rain as cordially as some human beings, and tossed her head and made a little play with her heels, and quivered a little all over with indignation at being taken out in such weather by any one except her master; but Rupert was a good as well as a merciful rider, and he humoured the pretty creature's whims till she forgot to show them, and after plunging, shying, cantering with a sideway motion, intended to express rebellion and disgust, she settled down into a long easy trot, which in about three quarters of an hour brought Rupert to the gates of Elm Park.
— from Mortomley's Estate: A Novel. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Riddell, J. H., Mrs.

As she proceeds onwards, however, and makes a little more southing, the wind will haul more and more round from the south to the south-east, then east-south-east, and eventually to east at the southern limit of the Trade-wind.
— from The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels by Basil Hall

She had been right; within the year, Braun had announced the founding of an association for clearing the Detroit slum area where he had been born—the plainest kind of symbolic suicide: Let's not have any more Abner Longmans Brauns born down here .
— from One-Shot by James Blish

Ixtlilxochitl tells us that Tlotzin, soon after his ascension, made a long tour of inspection through his territory, correcting abuses and enforcing the laws, but exciting thereby the enmity of some vassal lords.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

It was also whispered that she never attended the elevation of the Host at mass, always leaving before the bell was rung.
— from The Spell of Flanders An Outline of the History, Legends and Art of Belgium's Famous Northern Provinces by Edward Neville Vose

They then loosed from under the yoke the horses and mules, and led in the old man's crier-herald and set him on a chair, and from the wain of goodly felloes they took the countless ransom set on Hector's head.
— from The Iliad by Homer

A pearl of the Antilles, surely; but its name and fame, its history and mystery are lost to me.
— from In the Footprints of the Padres by Charles Warren Stoddard