The look of innocence and surprise which he received in return convinced Duncan of the necessity of being more explicit.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Thus of mosques in Richard Coeur de Lion : "Kyrkes they made of Crystene Lawe, And her Mawmettes lete downe drawe."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The head of the family, Count Ilyá Rostóv, continually drove about the city collecting the current rumors from all sides and gave superficial and hasty orders at home about the preparations for their departure.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

With the head we invite, remand, confess, deny, give the lie, welcome, honour, reverence, disdain, demand, rejoice, lament, reject, caress, rebuke, submit, huff, encourage, threaten, assure, and inquire.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

de Grandlieu, he interested himself in removing Calyste du Guenic from the clutches of Mme.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

The Red Sea: that great lake so famous in biblical traditions, seldom replenished by rains, fed by no important rivers, continually drained by a high rate of evaporation, its water level dropping a meter and a half every year!
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Whilst I was busy in an inner room— CORV: Death!
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

This is immediately followed by another page enumerating the various kinds of students thronging the wood in order to avail themselves of the teaching of a great Buddhist sage; they even include monkeys busily engaged in ritual ceremonies, devout parrots expounding a Buddhist dictionary, owls lecturing on the various births of Buddha, and tigers who have given up eating flesh under the calming influence of Buddhist teaching.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

But I really cannot describe to you the way in which the whole affair was hurried forward, contrary to my expectations, wish, or will.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Such are the kindly words in which Master Wace ends his "Chronicle of the Conquest." CHAPTER IV THROUGH SEVEN REIGNS I am going to take you along very quickly through the reigns of the Norman kings—William Rufus, Henry I, Stephen, Henry II., Richard Coeur de Lion, and John, and not make a long pause till we come to the year 1216, when Henry III., the royal builder of the Abbey as we know it, came to the throne.
— from The Story of Westminster Abbey by Violet Brooke-Hunt

It is more than I really can do, but that hour is compelled by the sight of that slow death.
— from Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846 by Honoré de Balzac

It's certain now that the White Moll's the one that's been doing us, and what I really came down here for to-night was to tell you that your job from now on was to get the White Moll.
— from The White Moll by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

A vase in rock crystal, discovered at Curium, with a funnel and cover in gold, the latter attached by a fine gold chain to one of its handles, 1256 was doubtless a fine lady’s favourite smelling bottle.
— from History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson

Idem reddit compotum de cxiiii.
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round

He came like a comet in its rapid course, darting through the orbits of the wondering planets, and leaving far behind its rays, pale and terrible, announcing to weak mortals the fall of kings and nations.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 01 by Voltaire

St. George became the patron of the soldiers who fought for the faith, and his apparition is said to have encouraged the Christian army in the Holy War, before the battle of Antioch, which proved fortunate under Godfrey of Bouillon, and he is also said to have appeared and inspirited Richard Cœur de Lion, in his expedition against the Saracens.
— from Cyprus: Historical and Descriptive by Franz von Löher

Rooming houses slept their guests in relays, canvas dormitories sprang up on vacant lots, the lobbies of the hotels were packed with shouldering maniacs until they resembled wheat pits, the streets were clogged with motor cars, and the sidewalks were jammed like subway platforms.
— from Flowing Gold by Rex Beach