and shes, or do they both share equally in hunting and in keeping watch and in the other duties of dogs?
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

His family and Miss Keeldar were assembled in the oak parlour.
— from Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

Juliet took such pains to please her, by doing everything with the greatest neatness and regularity, and reforming all her careless habits, that when she was sent back to her mother, the following presents were made her, constantly to remind her of the beauty and advantage of order:— A cabinet of English coins, in which all the gold and silver money of the kings was arranged in the order of their reigns.
— from Evenings at Home; Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened by John Aikin

7. Demonstrate how to coil rope so it will not kink when anchor is thrown out.
— from Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Girl Scouts of the United States of America

“When a handsome young man and a good-looking girl——” “Do you want to buy anything or not?” demanded Miss Kybird, with an impatient toss of her head.
— from At Sunwich Port, Complete by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

And when he rose half an hour afterwards, and turned his [Pg 64] steps homewards, he knew with an inward tremor of heart that the next great step of the way was practically taken.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

p. 45), thus entirely discarding the Merovingian and Carlovingian dynasties, and ascribing the commencement of the French kingdom to the beginning of the Capetian house; and he gives his reason; for he says that until "a little beyond 900," France had been divided among a number of Princes; but so it was even when Hugh Capet, putting an end to the system of anarchy which had prevailed before his time, established real monarchy; yet monarchy, after all, was not so real then as it was in the time of Charlemagne: Capet was only the most powerful prince among a number of others, who, nominally acknowledging him as king, were absolute in their own rights, raised taxes, dispensed justice, framed laws, coined money and made war.
— from Tacitus and Bracciolini. The Annals Forged in the XVth Century by John Wilson Ross

This redoubtable town has already been mentioned in this chronicle as a place deemed impregnable by the Moors, insomuch that their kings were accustomed in time of peril to keep their treasures in its citadel.
— from Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Antonio Agapida by Washington Irving

To treat him with marked kindness was an infidelity to old friends, and there is always something fascinating in that; moreover, it was a sort of reparation to De Wardes himself.
— from Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas