He tried to peep in, but could not get his head through because of his long beard.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Some of them went to the play and to dance, others hastened to the public-houses, where they asked for wine, got drunk, brawled, quarreled, and at last took up cudgels, and belabored each other.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

He turned to [pg 176] see if Don Benito had returned; but he had not.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

Nearchus, his admiral, sailed hence to the Persian Gulf, while Alexander directed his march by land to Babylon, losing a great part of his troops in the desert through which he had to pass.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Ráma hears that the people are lamenting his blind folly in taking back to his bosom the wife who was so long a captive in the palace of Rávaṇ.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

In the summer of 1288 several of the princes of Nayan's league, under Hatan (apparently the Abkan of Erdmann's genealogies), the grandson of Chinghiz's brother Kajyun [Hachiun], threatened the provinces north-east of the wall.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

They slew others of them as they were drinking to one another in their cups, and some of them when their full bellies had made them fall asleep; and for so many as had time to put on their armor, they slew them with the sword, with no less ease than they did those that were naked; and for the partisans of David, they continued also the slaughter from the first hour of the day to the evening, so that there were, not above four hundred of the Amalekites left; and they only escaped by getting upon their dromedaries and camels.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

He moved so slowly that it scarcely seemed as though he were moving at all, but at last he stood on his feet and then the squirrel scampered back up into the branches of his tree, the pheasant withdrew his head and the rabbits dropped on all fours and began to hop away, though not at all as if they were frightened.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

‘He’s been in hospital three times,’ put in the Mole; ‘and as for the fines he’s had to pay, it’s simply awful to think of.’
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

’Tis generally here that the Pyrates begin their Enterprizes, setting out at first with a very small Force; and by infesting these Seas, and those of the Continent of North-America , in a Year’s
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Then, pushing the chair aside, he once more fell upon his knees, and stretching out his hands towards the Pontiff, spoke more eagerly, more excitedly.
— from The Saint by Antonio Fogazzaro

Page 68 Still, with that enraged grizzly bearing swiftly down upon him, in spite of the one rope that still held taut, the position of poor Jerry was not the most pleasant in the world.
— from The Outdoor Chums After Big Game; Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness by Quincy Allen

"I suppose you know," Ulrich said, smiling, "that she is heiress to the Podlinsky estates.
— from The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann

The rule of the Incas, paternal indeed, but monotonous in the extreme, must have tended to produce melancholy.
— from Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru by Albert Réville

Laura, I have tried to protect you... that is the natural instinct of a father... to keep evil things from his daughter's knowledge.
— from The Machine by Upton Sinclair

I only hope that the post down is a little better regulated than that up, for if not, instead of getting my letters regularly once a-week, they will probably arrive in a mass about the end of next June.
— from The March to Magdala by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

When I returned for the holidays to the paternal roof, it was only to be fagged by my elder brethren; for here the fagging system, I
— from Confessions of an Etonian by I. E. M.

If indeed I hear that God's Providence has placed you in charge of that great see, it will give a different hue to the prospect, dreary enough, I confess, to me; though I hope I am mistaken in my gloomy forebodings of the results of all those many Dioceses being so long without active Bishops.
— from Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Without a word he thrust the paper into his pocket.
— from Danger at the Drawbridge by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt