Clara uttered a cry of terror—loud blows resounded against the door,—and the vile hag, with her glittering knife upraised, rushed towards her, her eyes glaring with savage fury; and, with a yell of derisive laughter, she aimed her weapon at the bosom of the fair girl; but her foot slipped, and she fell to the ground.
— from The Prime Minister by William Henry Giles Kingston

Kenneth addressed a few kindly, unsmiling remarks to his mother during the course of the few meals he had at home; he was always gentle with her, and deeply resented anything like a lack of respect toward her on the others' parts.
— from Saturday's Child by Kathleen Thompson Norris

The record of their ancestry had been carefully preserved for God's own plans, especially concerning Mary, of which plans neither of the sisters knew until revealed to her by an angel from God.
— from A Life of St. John for the Young by George Ludington Weed

I warned him he would be kept under restraint till he did so.
— from The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore

[369] concealed anger that I find and feel, and His glooms to me are kept under roof, that He will not have mine enemies hear what is betwixt me and Him.
— from Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition) by Samuel Rutherford