Milady appeared to have entirely recovered.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The descendants of Lady Byron revere her memory, as they have every reason to do.
— from Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The forest of multi-colored towers, cataracting half a mile skyward across more acreage than his eyes reached, was impressive and all that, but—he used to stroll out in the rock garden behind his cottage and smoke a pipe in company with Orion.
— from Innocent at Large by Poul Anderson

It was apparent that he wished to say no more, and that he even regretted the weakness which had induced him to say so much.
— from The Water-Witch; Or, the Skimmer of the Seas: A Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

To do justice to this game it will be necessary for the players to call to mind all they have ever read or heard about the various modes of travelling in all the four quarters of the globe, because every little detail will be of use.
— from Cassell's Book of In-door Amusements, Card Games, and Fireside Fun by Various

He was, by no means, a mere heartless money-maker, as the Christians were wont to call him, but rather a man of noble mind and tender heart, ever ready to assist the poor with his gold, and to comfort the unfortunate by word and deed.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

One thing we had heard, and that was, like all the rest of the English, he was very greedy for money, and that his ears readily listened to an argument that was backed up with gold.
— from Grace O'Malley, Princess and Pirate by Robert Machray

The vigilant magistrate did not fail to note the momentary glance of aversion and horror which Mildred bestowed upon this man, and then her eyes returned with so deep and pathetic an appeal to his face that his heart responded, and his judgment led him also to believe that there was error and perhaps wrong in the prosecution.
— from Without a Home by Edward Payson Roe

Mr. Seward answered in the same spirit, and to the same effect, only giving a little more amplitude to his excellent reasons.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

The large almond and tongue-shaped flint implements are so massive as to have effectually resisted the violence to which they, along with other contents of the rolled gravels in which they occur, were subjected; whereas it is only in the favouring shelter of the caves, or in rare primitive sepulchral deposits, that delicate trimmed flakes and the more perishable implements of bone and ivory, or horn, have escaped destruction.
— from The Lost Atlantis and Other Ethnographic Studies by Wilson, Daniel, Sir