As no enthusiasm was, as yet, visible, the spectators appearing to be dumb with astonishment, the commandant cried to the militia: “You may go home now.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The like he says is said of my Lord Tiviott, who was the boldest adventurer of his person in the world, and from a mean man in few years was come to this greatness of command and repute only by the death of all his officers, he many times having the luck of being the only survivor of them all, by venturing upon services for the King of France that nobody else would; and yet no man upon a defence, he being all fury and no judgment in a fight.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Drawing near to examine this lovely flower, whose exquisite scent perfumed the air, she stooped down to gather it, suspecting no evil, when a yawning abyss opened at her feet, and Aïdes, the grim ruler of the lower world, appeared from its depths, seated in his dazzling chariot drawn by four black horses.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

All was not exactly well as yet; Johnson Boller and his wife were coming down the corridor and, almost as he heard them, the lady passed him.
— from In and Out by Edgar Franklin

Doris, my love, my sweet, it is only the reaction from over-fatigue that gives you these ideas, nothing else; what awaits you but a future bright as your own beauty?
— from A Fair Mystery: The Story of a Coquette by Charlotte M. Brame

He soon returned, and, landing at Newcastle, eloped with a young lady, the daughter of an eminent apothecary of that town.
— from Curiosities of Human Nature by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

I tidied, and arranged, and packed into fresh parcels, working at fever heat with my hands, while all the time the voice in my brain kept repeating, “Now, Evelyn, what are you going to do?
— from The Lady of the Basement Flat by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

I can not enough wonder at your mode of living here .
— from The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes by Terence

By nitric acids it is converted into nitric ethers, which are yellow coloured, but in other respects closely resemble the pyroxylins.
— from A Text-book of Paper-making by C. F. (Charles Frederick) Cross

The like he says of my Lord Teviott, who was the boldest adventurer of his person in the world, and from a mean man in few years was come to this greatness of command and repute only by the death of all his officers, he many times having the luck of being the only survivor of them all, by venturing upon services for the King of France that nobody else would; and yet no man upon a defence, he being all fury and no judgment in a fight.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys

The new emir was a young, handsome, and gallant man.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 07 (of 15), Spanish by Charles Morris

For the wind is a creature which did not exist, while as yet the heavens and the earth lay in that confused chaotic mass.
— from Commentary on Genesis, Vol. 1: Luther on the Creation by Martin Luther