The clay jar was giving up all its rice to the iron pot. When the rent had risen to two hundred pesos, Tales was not content with scratching his head and sighing; he murmured and protested.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Her quick instincts had warned her, and she had made a parade of almost affectionate friendship for the other woman during the time the men had been present.
— from By Right of Sword by Arthur W. Marchmont

I think Tom Kinlay was the only one of us who did not look with superstitious awe into the dark shadows that hung about those ruined walls and silent tombstones; but he was so tall and strong that nothing seemed to daunt him, and soon he made a proposal that went far towards assuring me that he was absolutely fearless.
— from The Pilots of Pomona: A Story of the Orkney Islands by Robert Leighton

Hakluyt and Schumer had made a plan to get rid of him.
— from The Pearl Fishers by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

Well, to make matters worse, when he was half starved himself, he must needs have some one to starve with him, and so he married a poor girl who had worked in the same fields with him; and you may guess what a to do there was in the parish.
— from The Forgery; or, Best Intentions. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Then when he had achieved success; had money and property; had loaded his belongings on his wagons; had turned the heads of the horses to the East; looked into the faces of the friends who had surrounded him all the years, at the plains he knew and loved, at the magnificent mountains, silent, majestic, eternal, at the rivers murmuring to him as they went by—his courage faltered!
— from Colorado—The Bright Romance of American History by F. C. Grable

His dream fulfilled and his ambition satisfied, he made all possible haste to Fort Snelling.
— from Minnesota, the North Star State by William Watts Folwell

In some way he won the favor of Charles II., who knighted him as Sir Henry Morgan and placed him on the admiralty court in Jamaica.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 07 (of 15), Spanish by Charles Morris

The Confederacy of Delos had already secured her maritime ascendency; Pericles directed his policy to the extension of her influence in continental Greece.
— from A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest by William Smith