es implored, yet whose strong, brown, shapely hand never dared so much as touch hers, except when she extended it in greeting.
— from Found in the Philippines: The Story of a Woman's Letters by Charles King

"Half a moment, if you please, sir," said Moulder; and then he exclaimed with stentorian voice, "James, the dinner bill."
— from Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope

With exhausted powers they must ascend the hostile entrenchments, whose strength seemed to bid defiance to every assault.
— from The Thirty Years War — Volume 03 by Friedrich Schiller

For, that the presence of so many white men as they had encountered would suggest to the astute native mind the idea that a ship was somewhere near at hand was so exceedingly likely that it might almost be accepted as a foregone conclusion.
— from A Middy in Command: A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Harry Collingwood