"Quater fang tooce!" said the student, starting up, and he bounced into his own room, where he locked the door, and where Jos heard him laughing with his comrade on the bed.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Of course I have other reasons for thinking so—dozens of exiguous threads which lead vaguely up towards the centre of the web where the poisonous, motionless creature is lurking.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

He has been taunted more than once about the Diamond, by those who recollect his angry outbreak before the assault; but, as may easily be imagined, his own remembrance of the circumstances under which I surprised him in the armoury has been enough to keep him silent.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

30 The instinctive hatred of reality is the outcome of an extreme susceptibility to pain and to irritation, which can no longer endure to be "touched" at all, because every sensation strikes too deep.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

But we forgot all the while—or kept it almost a secret to ourselves—that he never once lost his self-possession; that he let out by a thousand droll looks and gestures—meant at us , and not at all supposed to be visible to his fellows in the scene, that his confidence in his own resources had never once deserted him.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

she at last exclaimed to herself, in her own room.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Thus Robin Hood and Little John and Will Scarlet and Allan a Dale came before the Queen into her own royal bower.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

The Countess and I took her from the doctor and carried her into her own room.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

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— from Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition by James Alton James

If it be borne in mind that according to the returns in the State Paper Office four archbishops and nineteen bishops are represented as having attended the Parliament of 1541,[22] although, in his official report to the king, the Deputy stated expressly that only two archbishops and twelve bishops were present;[23] and also that gross errors have been detected in the lists of spiritual peers supposed to have been in attendance at the Parliaments of 1569[24] and 1585,[25] it will be obvious to any unprejudiced mind that the return for the Parliament of 1560 cannot be accepted as accurate.
— from History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 2 by James MacCaffrey

His lecture on Alexander Hamilton brought him into notice, and he was often called upon to give it in various places; but it was more his originality and power in the treatment of public questions that caused him to be invited far and wide, and to which invitation he oftenest responded.
— from Earliest Years at Vassar: Personal Recollections by Frances Ann Wood

“Not many years ago this part of the country was periodically visited by immense herds of rein-deer; at present there is scarcely one to be found.”
— from The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Francis Harper

When Mollie's letter arrived the next day she left it unopened until she was in her own room.
— from Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey

Teddy ran away to a distant part of the bar to eat his honey in peace, and the boys ruefully watched the river in hope of rescue.
— from The Six River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence; Or, The Lost Channel by Harry Gordon

started on his march northwards, than Ferrante once more set foot in his own realm and received a joyful welcome from his subjects.
— from Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 by Julia Cartwright

She was in her own room, I peeped in on my way upstairs.
— from My New Home by Mrs. Molesworth

Should I hear of reinforcements coming up, you may rely upon receiving your due proportion.
— from The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock, K.B. Interspersed with notices of the celebrated Indian chief, Tecumseh, and comprising brief memoirs of Daniel De Lisle Brock, Esq., Lieutenant E.W. Tupper, R.N., and Colonel W. De Vic Tupper by Brock, Isaac, Sir

Mrs. Keaney placed him in her one rocking-chair, and gave him and little Annie a drink of milk and a goodly slice of bread and butter straightway, for she knew how little they had to eat at home.
— from Harper's Young People, February 1, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various