When Thorer had set up his tents he went on shore, and many of his men with him.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

laughed merrily at the utter nonsense her cousin chattered incessantly, while poor Eddie hugged his discontent, and made the most of his misery.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

At immense personal sacrifice I followed the dictates of my own ingenuity, my own humanity, my own caution, and took her identity instead.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

That capacity for intense attachments reminded me of her mother: still she did not resemble her: for she could be soft and mild as a dove, and she had a gentle voice and pensive expression: her anger was never furious; her love never fierce: it was deep and tender.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

" The accused merchant opened his mouth as if to protest, but the Cadi gave him no time.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - probably permanently.
— from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

He may do this methodically, or he may do it unconsciously by preserving the individuals most useful to him at the time, without any thought of altering the breed.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Mr O. H. Mackenzie saw four or five whimbrels below the Inverewe garden in the first week of June 1886.
— from Gairloch in North-West Ross-Shire Its Records, Traditions, Inhabitants, and Natural History, with a Guide to Gairloch and Loch Maree, and a Map and Illustrations by John H. (John Henry) Dixon

So susceptible was he, indeed, of such impulses, and so much under the control of the imaginative department of his intellect, that, whatever might have been the accidental mood of his mind, at the moment when this astounding event first burst upon him, it would most probably have acted as a sort of mental catalepsy, and fixed his reason in the very attitude in which it found it.
— from Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 by Thomas Moore

when an opportunity offered; the monster opened his mouth, immediately the top of the mast was placed against the roof, and the other end pierced his tongue, which effectually prevented him from shutting his mouth.
— from The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe

"He has so much on his mind," said Mrs. Pomfret.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

The poor man must loose his cattle from the plough, and work on the roads; or perhaps, in the midst of harvest, must leave his grain to spoil, and go and carry convicts to the galleys, haul ship-timber to the navy-yard, or supplies to some garrison, while the soldiers prick his cattle with their swords, and insult their driver.
— from The Young Deliverers of Pleasant Cove The Pleasant Cove Series by Elijah Kellogg

What the future of the world will be depends not so much on how much you love Jean or she loves you, or on how much I loved and was loved, but on how much that love will mean to the world.
— from The Tin Soldier by Temple Bailey

Through Miss West she knew how many of her mother's dear people needed help.
— from The Lady and Sada San A Sequel to the Lady of the Decoration by Frances Little

[277] So Fox wrote to say that, understanding the King was determined to have no leader in the House of Commons, but wished to have him take a forward and spirited part on behalf of the Ministry, he desired some mark of his Majesty's favour to show that he enjoyed his Majesty's confidence.
— from Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of

This was Mr. Mailsetter on his mare from Fairport, with a letter for Sir Arthur, another to the messenger, both of which, he said, he was directed to forward instantly.
— from The Antiquary — Complete by Walter Scott

"Violet," he begins, with a certain asperity, "there occasionally comes a time in life, married life, when the mistake one has made is realized in its full force.
— from Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda M. Douglas