M. Morin looked at me now and again, and seeing that I kept a serious countenance did not dare to laugh.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Thirty-six mules and a dozen waggons, laden with chamber-stuff, brought up the rear, and a great crowd of "rascals belonging to her kitchen and stables came drabbling in the dirt on foot."
— from Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, 1522-1590 by Julia Cartwright

But when Kathleen at seventeen Came down the street one morning, The luck of man came over him And took him without warning.
— from More Songs From Vagabondia by Richard Hovey

KENT AND SUSSEX, Canterbury, Dover, Ramsgate, Sheeroess, Rochester, Chatham, Woolwich, Brighton, Chichester, Worthing, Hastings, Lewes, Arundel, &c. Map.
— from Travels in Central Asia Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand by Ármin Vámbéry

If Lorimer had not kept a straight course during his honeymoon, what hope was there for either himself or Beatrix in the many, many moons to come?
— from The Dominant Strain by Anna Chapin Ray

On the same day on which it had been decided at the Hague to send the troops, a captain of guards came to the aid of the poor little king and shot Concini dead one fine spring morning on the bridge of the Louvre.
— from Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1614-17 by John Lothrop Motley

Those were busy times, and, seeing that Lord Kitchener and Sir C. Douglas attended these meetings as a matter of course, I asked to be excused thenceforward.
— from Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 by Callwell, C. E. (Charles Edward), Sir

When at last she lay down to rest she did not know anything she could do but just to go on living day by day and helping David all she could.
— from Marcia Schuyler by Grace Livingston Hill