On the arrival of the Second Division in front of the village of Bourliouk, which, having been prepared for conflagration by the Russians, became suddenly, for some hundred yards, an impenetrable blaze, Major Claremont came to me in great haste, to say {100} from the Marshal that a part of the French army, having ascended the heights on the south of the river, became threatened by large bodies of Russians, and might be compromised, unless the attention of the enemy were immediately drawn away by pressing them in our front.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir

"You must try to keep me in good humour, then," said I; but though the moon was beautifully romantic, and I felt he was looking at me with his whole soul in his eyes, I couldn't help keeping one of mine glued on the steering gear, or whatever one ought to call it, and wondering whether he was paying as much attention to it as he was to me.
— from My Friend the Chauffeur by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

“When I say I’m the plot, I mean I gave him the story.
— from Slaves of Freedom by Coningsby Dawson

"The Holy Father implores you to persecute the Church no more; it grieves him to see everywhere the laxity of morals, the universal discord which has been produced by your fault.
— from Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Conrad von Bolanden

When it was necessary for the marshal to use severity against any man, it generally had the sanction of an immense majority of that man's fellow-prisoners.
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 by Henry Hunt

For four terrible hours the men in grey held this sunken road until it was piled with their bodies, and when the last charge of the resistless blue lines took it, they found but three hundred living men who had been holding it against the assaults of five thousand—and "Bloody Lane" became immortal in American history.
— from The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

So when, having deliberately and with mischievous intent given him the slip, she awoke suddenly to the fact that he had followed and was standing near her, Audrey became childishly exasperated and seized the first means of escape that offered.
— from The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell