So being weaponless he ran to the next room to find a sword, and so from room to room, with King Pelles after him, he in vain ever eagerly casting his eyes round every place to find some weapon.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Before despatching these when ready, they seem to have thought it would be well to show Calvin the short demurrers of Servetus to his elaborate Refutation; expecting, probably, that he would have something to say to them, but not meaning to let Servetus see anything Calvin might think proper to add.
— from Servetus and Calvin A Study of an Important Epoch in the Early History of the Reformation by Robert Willis

The ants had evidently removed every plant that might interfere with the growth of their grain.
— from The Dawn of Reason; or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by Weir, James, Jr.

When you have given him equal rights, equal privileges, and equal security with other citizens; when you have opened the way for him to be a man, then will you have rendered exact justice which can alone insure stability and content.
— from History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

As we have elsewhere remarked, every place, like a bit of 120 tapestry, has its right side and its wrong side; and both are true and real,—the wrong side with its tags and rags, and seams and knots, and thrums of worsted, and the right side with its pretty picture.
— from Palmetto-Leaves by Harriet Beecher Stowe

It was too early for there to be much movement in the streets; yet his expert ragamuffin eyes picked up signs which comforted him.
— from Wang the Ninth: The Story of a Chinese Boy by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

His first lecture, however, entirely removed every prejudice which had been formed; and at its conclusion the Count emphatically exclaimed—"Let him command any arrangements which the Institution can afford."
— from The Life of Sir Humphrey Davy, Bart. LL.D., Volume 1 (of 2) by John Ayrton Paris

It reviled her for the belief she had propounded, but in this century she never renounced that belief, but thundered back to the pulpit and to the newspapers that the world does move and the time will come when women shall be free; the time will come when they shall have every right, every privilege, every liberty which any man enjoys....
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper