The desire of the inhabitants was to efface and redeem that former consecration of the parish to the Sacred Heart, which had filled the mayor and the council with keen remorse ever since they had recovered their senses.
— from Truth [Vérité] by Émile Zola

On the other hand, Sir H. Kitchener required every soldier the Egyptian army could muster to carry out the operations on the Nile.
— from The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Winston Churchill

The chauffeur sat stolid, but Caroline's keen round eyes saw that he shook, from the waist down, like a man in a chill.
— from While Caroline Was Growing by Josephine Daskam Bacon

Kate refused every suggestion to see Jack; refused his own prayerful message, and sternly, solemnly with her dead passed from the scene of her sorrows.
— from The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan

The chauffeur sat stolid, but Caroline's keen round eyes saw that he shook from the waist down like a man in a chill.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. by Various

Baskets of food were driven to the scene; the fires under the great, iron kettles were kept replenished; everybody stirred the bubbling sap, ate, gabbled; the young people even danced on the grass.
— from Mountain Blood: A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

If he assents, the girl’s headman says “As long as stones and the Kāveri river exist, so that the sky goddess Akāsavāni and the earth goddess Bhūmadēvi may know it; so that the water-pot (used at the marriage ceremony), and the sun and moon may know it; so that this assembly may know it; I ... give this girl.”
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 6 of 7 by Edgar Thurston