They replied that they were satisfied, and then forming in battalion and firing the muskets, and the captain having embraced the two kings, we took our leave.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

“The old witch told me that this was all that was left of your share; that when they were fixed enough, she put them under her bed for safety, and the mice and the children had eaten them all up but this string.”
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Lawrence 165 Armitage, Hal Macy and the Crane had espied the girls from afar and come with winged feet to join them.
— from Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman by Josephine Chase

If one of the Princes of this world has an arduous undertaking to accomplish, which requires the undivided care and attention of those to whom it is committed; and if he says to his servants,--"Pursue steadily and singly the business entrusted to you, without distraction about personal provision, of which I will take sufficient care"; how many are the candidates, how eager the contention, how secure the confidence!
— from Christian Devotedness by Anthony Norris Groves

The true philosopher will be more and more disposed, the more he deals with such matters, and the closer he examines them, to fall back on Hamlet’s dictum, “That there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy.”
— from Nether Lochaber The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West Highlands by Stewart, Alexander, Rev.

The object of this ebullition of generous feeling bowed gracefully to the crowds on either side; and the cheering continued for some moments after the carriage had entered the court-yard of the General's mansion.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

She's too big a gell—gone nine, and tall of her age—to have her hair cut short.—Maggie, Maggie," continued the mother, as the child herself entered the room, "where's the use o' my telling you to keep away from the water?
— from Tom and Maggie Tulliver by George Eliot

Young Lindsay, with many apologies to Captain Harrison, elected to unite his fortunes with mine, rather than turn over to the Minerva ; and I was also given another lad—a very quiet, lady-like young fellow named Christie—to bear us both company and do duty as master.
— from A Pirate of the Caribbees by Harry Collingwood

Their parents did not miss the humor of the situation, and I think enjoyed these preparations and incidental discomforts for the sake of pleasure as much as they could have enjoyed the sports themselves, when the time came.
— from The Car That Went Abroad: Motoring Through the Golden Age by Albert Bigelow Paine

—For fifty years or more after the colonists had established their homes in the wilderness of the New World, they were growing rich and strong.
— from The Story of American History for Elementary Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

As the concluding bars of the gipsy ritual rose from around her, she snatched her hand from the grasp of Miridoff and tightly clasped her ears to shut out the sound.
— from The Amateur Diplomat: A Novel by Thomas B. (Thomas Bertram) Costain