This happens particularly at such times when one has not been present during the event or when the perception was made while only half awake, or a long time ago, and finally, when a group of other impressions have accompanied the event, so that there was not time enough, if I may say so, properly to register the sense impression.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Anselmo praised this second sonnet too, as he had praised the first; and so he went on adding link after link to the chain with which he was binding himself and making his dishonour secure; for when Lothario was doing most to dishonour him he told him he was most honoured; and thus each step that Camilla descended towards the depths of her abasement, she mounted, in his opinion, towards the summit of virtue and fair fame.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"On her return she told me how kind the Emperor had been to her, that he had kept her all the evening, saying the kindest things to her.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

But that they were wholly omitted, I [Pg 446] am unable to believe, because it is written that God on the seventh day rested from all His works which He made; and this very book itself begins, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," so that before heaven and earth God seems to have made nothing.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Before he could utter the cry of warning that rose to his lips, or brace himself against the expected shock, the boat passed gently and noiselessly through the sides of the vessel, and the holy man found himself standing on the berth-deck of what seemed to be an ancient caravel.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

M. Dubuis, who was puffing as hard as the engine, said to the Englishmen: “Will you be my seconds?”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

But more deeply wilt Thou have mercy on whom Thou wilt have mercy, and wilt have compassion on whom Thou hast had compassion: else in deaf ears do the heaven and the earth speak Thy praises.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Alas for him that under lowering skies, In peril o’er a trackless ocean sails, Where neither friendly port nor pole-star shows.” Anselmo praised this second sonnet too, as he had praised the first; and so he went on adding link after link to the chain with which he was binding himself and making his dishonour secure; for when Lothario was doing most to dishonour him he told him he was most honoured; and thus each step that Camilla descended towards the depths of her abasement, she mounted, in his opinion, towards the summit of virtue and fair fame.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Here are three Etruscan sarcophagi, two of alabaster, and one in peperino.
— from How to See the British Museum in Four Visits by Blanchard Jerrold

The fallen shades of night soon overspread the whole hemisphere, and the earth seemed to gape after the hovering moisture.
— from Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer by Cecil B. Hartley

"We will, however, hang about till evening, so that they may think we have no suspicions, and then in the dusk we will push on."
— from In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa by Ernest Glanville

In that and the following days one hundred and three executions sealed the fate of the defeated enemies of the Convention.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 06 (of 15), French by Charles Morris

If, as happened among the East Saxons, the king forsook his old gods, returned to them again, and finally forsook them altogether, the tribe followed his lead, and, in public at least, worshipped Christ, Odin, or any other deity whom the king favoured for the moment; but there can be hardly any doubt that in private the mass of the people adhered to the old religion to which they were accustomed.
— from The Witch-cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology by Margaret Alice Murray

Verney looked at it from a high niche in which he had incautiously seated himself for a moment, and now remained imprisoned, because Miss Elaine had placed herself across the entrance so that he could not emerge without asking her to rise; from this niche, like the tenor of Trovatore in his tower, he occasionally sent across a Miserere to Janet in the distance, like this: "Do you ob—serve, Miss Trescott, the col—ors of the lem—ons below?"
— from Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Then the king of the Ephthalitae sent some of his followers to Perozes; he upbraided him at length for his senseless foolhardiness, by which he had wantonly destroyed both himself and the Persian people, but he announced that even so the Huns would grant them deliverance, if Perozes should consent to prostrate himself before him as having proved himself master, and, taking the oaths traditional among the Persians, should give pledges that they would never again take the field against the nation of the Ephthalitae.
— from History of the Wars, Books I and II The Persian War by Procopius