The Count informed her that Miss Halcombe had not yet gone to Cumberland, after-consideration having caused him to doubt the prudence of her taking so long a journey without some days' previous rest.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

And Joseph, warned some days previously, had returned from a holiday tour feeling very much affected by all that had occurred in his absence.
— from Truth [Vérité] by Émile Zola

And Jim would stagger doggedly past me, where I sat on the parapet, his poor cheeks shaking and the tail of his bath robe wrapping itself around his legs.
— from When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Joan with some difficulty persuaded her to walk out as far as Gouda, and consult the hermit.
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

Jean would sit drawing pictures or dreaming over his copy-books at one end of the table where Mademoiselle Servien had just cleared away the meal.
— from The Aspirations of Jean Servien by Anatole France

The party thus starting on the protracted and perilous expedition was composed of only twenty-two persons, as follows: Governor Isaac I. Stevens; James Doty, secretary; R.H. Lansdale, Indian agent; Gustave Sohon, artist; Hazard Stevens; C.P. Higgins, packmaster; Sidney S. Ford, Jr., A.H. Robie, Joseph Lemere, Frank Genette, H. Palmer, William Simpson, John Canning, Frank Hale, Louis Oson, Louis Fourcier, C. Hughes, John Johnson, William S. De Parris, William Prudhomme, packers, the last two cooks; Joseph, the Cœur d’Alene guide; and Delaware Jim, who deserves a place by himself.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

An' up there, in the green, is her own honey-zuck, That her brother traïn'd up roun' her window; an' there Is the rwose an' the jessamy, where she did pluck A flow'
— from Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes

Jean was Sieur du Parc, and Jessé parish priest of Chambois in 1634.
— from The Makers of Canada: Champlain by N.-E. (Narcisse-Eutrope) Dionne

Then Miss Nugent, raising the jug with some difficulty, poured out a tumbler for the steward with her own fair hands.
— from At Sunwich Port, Complete by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs