Klein was extremely flurried; his interest as a reporter must have tempted him at first to make the most of his share in the exploit, the immediate peril in which he soon found himself to stand must have at least suggested to him the idea of minimising it; one way and another, he is not a good witness.
— from A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa by Robert Louis Stevenson

The vengeance upon Dugard seemed to have wiped out much of her shame in the eyes of Bamber’s Boom.
— from A Romany of the Snows, Complete Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre by Gilbert Parker

He lost most of his ships in the engagement that followed.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4) by Plutarch

Dear and valued co-workers: The expansion and consolidation of the institutions of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh, as a result of the operation of the Plan initiated by your Assembly, on the morrow of one of the severest ordeals which has ever afflicted the German Bahá’í Community, marks a chapter of the highest importance in the annals of the Faith in both Germany and Austria and will be regarded by posterity as a milestone of historic significance in the evolution of the Faith on the European Continent.
— from The Light of Divine Guidance (Volume 1) by Effendi Shoghi

The Lord has revealed His arm, His power and glory, as He has manifested them in the mission of His servant, in the eyes of all (comp.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

Roustan, who accompanied his Majesty on horseback, slept in the entrance room of the tent, in order that the sleep which was so necessary to him should not be disturbed.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete by Louis Constant Wairy

The vengeance upon Dugard seemed to have wiped out much of her shame in the eyes of Bamber's Boom.
— from A Romany of the Snows, vol. 2 Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre by Gilbert Parker

There was but one voice for it, and the Jolly Doctor, who would have demurred for that it seemed to lack of modesty on his side, in the end conceded the point with grace.
— from The Black Lion Inn by Alfred Henry Lewis

The method of hardening steel, in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, by immersion, when red hot, in cold water, may be seen in Theophilus Presbyter, lib. iii. cap.
— from Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe From the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Thirteenth Century by John Hewitt

"My object," he said, "is to escape notice, to look like every one else.
— from Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted from His Letters and Diaries, with Reminiscences of His Conversation by His Friend Christopher Carr of the Same College by Arthur Christopher Benson