I roused an officer who lodged in the house, and M. Chancel, Director of the Public Works.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Another Senator said, “Let the investigation go on and let it make an example of this man Noble; let it teach him and men like him that they could not attack the reputation of a United States Senator with impunity.”
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

It was also believed that the dumb animals paid their tribute of respect to this night; the bees would hum loudly in their hives at midnight, and the cattle in the cow-houses would bend their knees as in adoration.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

‘Well, if I was you, I wouldn’t have that Lady Lowborough in the house another minute—not another minute I wouldn’t!
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Thenceforth she lived in their home as Miss Ousley, and was treated as a daughter by Steele's wife.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The king came the last into the harbour, and Magnus had let the murderer escape into the forest, and offered to pay the mulct for him; and the king had very nearly attacked Magnus and his crew, but their friends came up and reconciled them.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Was learned in the history and manners of China.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

is there with his mother, Richelieu is there with Louis XIII., Louvois is there, Letellier is there, Hébert and Maillard are there, scratching the stones, and trying to make the traces of their actions disappear.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

CHAPTER XVII "When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu whit, Tu whu, a merry note While greasy Joan doth keel the pot." Mhor began to look forward to Christmas whenever the days began to shorten and the delights of summer to fade; and the moment the Hallowe'en "dooking" for apples was over he and Jock were deep in preparations.
— from Penny Plain by O. Douglas

It was really she who lived in the house as Mme.
— from The Mystery of Orcival by Emile Gaboriau

On the other hand, Emmerence now lived in the house as maid-of-all-work.
— from Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach

Sometimes he saith he will write his fear and law in their hearts and minds.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

We grew better acquainted with each other; we talked long together many times,—she, on the little bench, I, leaning on my elbow on the wall; she told me all about her life; I told her about mine, and, above all, monseigneur, my respectful affection for you, to whom I owe so much.
— from Luxury--Gluttony: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue

She did not seem at all pleased by the idea of Miss Carthew living in the house, and muttered to herself all the time.
— from Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie

Hop Loo, a Chinese laundryman, lived in the house, and Matt was just coming after his week's wash.
— from Motor Matt's Mystery; or, Foiling a Secret Plot by Stanley R. Matthews

If, on any subject whatever, human enactments do obviously conflict with the enactments of God, then God's law is the " higher ," and must be obeyed.
— from Three Prize Essays on American Slavery by R. B. (Richard Bowers) Thurston

I am nurse to the child of my lord in the halls, a most cunning little boy, that runs out and abroad with me.
— from The Odyssey of Homer, Done into English Prose by Homer