These came into the hands of a Russian envoy, Dubrowsky, and most of them, if not all, are (or were until a more recent Revolution) in the Imperial Library at Petrograd.
— from The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts Helps for Students of History, No. 17. by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

To reassure her with regard to my villainous intentions I told her that the doctor had [170] hit on a really effective deterrent by threatening to turn me out of prison.
— from Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Lytton, Constance, Lady

There were fine bands among the Yankee regiments that played afternoon and evening in the kiosk on the Luneta, and every household possessed of an open carriage, or the means of hiring one, appeared regularly each day as the sun sank to the westward sea, and after making swift yet solemn circuit of the Anda monument at the Pasig end of the Paseo de Santa Lucia, returned to the Luneta proper, and wedged in among the closely packed vehicles that covered the broad, smooth driveways on both sides of the esplanade and for some hundred yards each way north and south of the band-stand.
— from Ray's Daughter: A Story of Manila by Charles King

Here is a man indeed worthy to be the hero of a republican epic, did history permit it.
— from Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler

I have never had on a real evening dress before."
— from The Career of Katherine Bush by Elinor Glyn

Rather than abandon additional Natal territory the British accepted the conditions in the midst of which they have repeatedly suffered severely, and their columns have been driven to accept the contingencies of extra hazardous operations and relief expeditions driven under the strain of perilous emergency.
— from South Africa and the Boer-British War, Volume I Comprising a History of South Africa and its people, including the war of 1899 and 1900 by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins

He then added, that he should not fail to inform his royal master of what had occurred, and retired extremely dissatisfied.
— from Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. 2 (of 3) Queen of Denmark and Norway, and Sister of H. M. George III. of England by Wraxall, Lascelles, Sir

Next day Rupert inquired after the owner of the farm which once was his, and learned that it was in the hands of a real estate dealer.
— from Added Upon A Story by Nephi Anderson

He ordered a rather elaborate dinner, and then turning his attention to Carley, gave her closer scrutiny.
— from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey