It was so exactly an interpretation of the prophecy that Midas was made king and put upon the throne of Phrygia.
— from Wonder Stories: The Best Myths for Boys and Girls by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

"The Seraskier is knocked upon the head, But the stone bastion still remains, wherein The old Pacha sits among some hundreds dead, Smoking his pipe quite calmly 'midst the din Of our artillery and his own: 't is said Our killed, already piled up to the chin, Lie round the battery; but still it batters, And grape in volleys, like a vineyard, scatters.
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

I have known the poor to die in that same grim, silent way—not the poor that you, my delicately-gloved Lady Bountiful and my very excellent Sir Simon DoGood, know, or that you would care to know; not the poor who march in processions with banners and collection-boxes; not the poor that clamour round your soup kitchens and sing hymns at your tea meetings; but the poor that you don’t know are poor until the tale is told at the coroner’s inquest—the silent, proud poor who wake each morning to wrestle with Death till night-time, and who, when at last he overcomes them, and, forcing them down on the rotting floor of the dim attic, strangles them, still die with their teeth tight shut.
— from Novel Notes by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

There she knelt and prayed, until the thought of her sick child flashed across her brain, and rising, she stooped over and enquired how she felt.
— from The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution by Alex. St. Clair (Alexander St. Clair) Abrams

Pascal wrote back letters equally positive and arrogant, both to the king and primate; urging to the former, that, by assuming the right of investitures, he committed a kind of spiritual adultery with the church, who was the spouse of Christ, and who must not admit of such a commerce with any other person [c]; and insisting with the latter, that the pretension of kings to confer benefices was the source of all simony: a topic which had but too much foundation in those ages
— from The History of England, Volume I From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 by David Hume

The Superintendent received us most kindly, and presented us to the Sisters who have charge of the children, who were good specimens of their class.
— from A Trip to Cuba by Julia Ward Howe

" He took her on his knee, and pointed up to the portrait.
— from The Little Colonel by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

The superintendent received us most kindly, and presented us to the sisters who have charge of the children, who were good specimens of their class.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

A mulatto girl now appeared from the adjoining kitchen and placed upon the table a dish of cold, sliced chicken, boiled eggs and pickles, together with the steaming wheaten rolls from the Dutch oven.
— from Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick by Savage, William T., Mrs.