This excuse by no means appeased her, and they had a violent quarrel; but the only effect her anger had on the Captain, was to increase his diversion.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

[Clark, June 10, 1806] Tuesday June 10th 1806. rose early this morning and had all the horses Collected except one of Whitehouses horses which could not be found, an Indian promised to find the horse and bring him on to us at the quawmash fields at which place we intend to delay a fiew days for the laying in Some meat by which time we Calculate that the Snows will have melted more off the mountains and the grass raised to a sufficient hight for our horses to live.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Which hearing young Stephen was a marvellous glad man and he averred that he who stealeth from the poor lendeth to the Lord for he was of a wild manner when he was drunken and that he was now in that taking it appeared eftsoons.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

What a space of time those three moments were while their eyes met and his arms touched her!
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Attacked by two ships, she lost her maintopmast and had also to haul off for repairs."
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

I found my antagonist had already taken his ground, wrapped in a dark horseman’s coat, with a laced hat flapped over his eyes; but what was my astonishment, when, throwing off this wrapper, he appeared to be a person whom I had never seen before!
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

It is not yet three years since these same Centre Grenadiers, Gardes Francaises then, marched him towards the Calypso Isles, in the gray of the May morning; and he and they have got thus far.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The possibility of his desertion the professor did not consider for a moment, although he admitted to himself that it was hard to tell what panic of fear might come over a boy who, for the first time in his life, found bullets flying about his ears.
— from In the Midst of Alarms by Robert Barr

There was thus little necessity for the Negro to care for the morrow, and his African training had not taught him to borrow trouble.
— from The Negro Farmer by Carl Kelsey

Adelaide did not return to Mr. Allison's to dinner, but Mr. Travilla called presently after, to say that she had dined with his mother and himself at the hotel, and would not return until bed-time, as they were all going to hear Gough lecture that evening.
— from Elsie's Girlhood A Sequel to "Elsie Dinsmore" and "Elsie's Holidays at Roselands" by Martha Finley

After dinner, which passed without any 100 unusual happenings, she went into the lounge, supplied herself with some new magazines, and hurried away to her room.
— from The Crimson Patch by Augusta Huiell Seaman

He is [7] a gentleman, moreover, and hath a title, having been knighted for gallant service in that ill-fated Cadiz expedition some years since."
— from Sir Christopher: A Romance of a Maryland Manor in 1644 by Maud Wilder Goodwin