He succeeded at last, and took up the garment that had lain waiting, meantime, across his lap, and began his work.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

I openly declared myself her champion, and perceived she was not insensible of my attention; her looks, animated by the gratitude she dared not express by words, were for this reason still more penetrating.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He wrapped a mantle around his left arm, boldly rushed out of doors with drawn sword, and ran a woman through the middle about here, no harm to what I touch.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

M. de Rambouillet being unable to attend the levée , had appointed me to wait upon him at six in the evening; at which hour I presented myself at his lodgings, attended by Simon Fleix.
— from Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley John Weyman

A child that is branded a liar has undoubtedly given abundant occasion for mistrust, and has lied aplenty; but undoubtedly also he has specialized in his lying, and would be incapable of certain kinds of lies that are common enough with other children.
— from Your Child: Today and Tomorrow Some Problems for Parents Concerning Punishment, Reasoning, Lies, Ideals and Ambitions, Fear, Work and Play, Imagination, Social Activities, Obedience, Adolescence, Will, Heredity by Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg

All I want is to make an honest living and bring up my three boys to be good men.'
— from Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight by Mathew Joseph Holt

But there was a doctor, he said, who came up once from Philadelphia to visit Major Dryden, before the major died; and he had chanced to see Tom and Bennie up by the mines, and had looked at Bennie’s eyes, and said he thought, if the boy could go to Philadelphia and have treatment, that sight might be restored.
— from The Blind Brother: A Story of the Pennsylvania Coal Mines by Homer Greene

Hume took from Miss Anstrade her light and beautifully finished rifle.
— from The Golden Rock by Ernest Glanville

The guide saw only consternation in the faces of the men as he looked around, but there was a smile on his own.
— from The Last Three Soldiers by W. H. (William Henry) Shelton

Now Percerin had been a clever man all his life, and by way of keeping up his reputation beyond the grave, took very good care not to make a bad death of it; and so contrived to die very skillfully; and that at the very moment he felt his powers of invention declining.
— from The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas

“I don't think there's anything much prettier than these clusters; do you, Miss Pasmer?” asked Mavering, as he lifted a bunch pendent from the little tree before he stripped it into the bowl he carried.
— from April Hopes by William Dean Howells