Or see Saint-Just, in the Lines of Weissembourg, though physically of a timid apprehensive nature, how he charges with his 'Alsatian Peasants armed hastily' for the nonce; the solemn face of him blazing into flame; his black hair and tricolor hat-taffeta flowing in the breeze; These our Lines of Weissembourg were indeed forced, and Prussia and the Emigrants rolled through: but we re-force the Lines of Weissembourg; and Prussia and the Emigrants roll back again still faster,—hurled with bayonet charges and fiery ca-ira-ing.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

wuldorweorud n. heavenly host , Cr 285.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

He had been asked if he came on business, and had answered No; he had come for the pleasure of seeing me, and had come a long way.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

So home back as I came, to London Bridge, and so home, where I find my wife in a musty humour, and tells me before Ashwell that Pembleton had been there, and she would not have him come in unless I was there, which I was ashamed of; but however, I had rather it should be so than the other way.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Then, still laughing, he kissed his weeping and agitated wife on both cheeks, and shouted out, as though she could not hear him: “Come along, mother, we will go and see whether there is any soup left; I should not mind a plateful.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

VI Jude's old and embittered aunt lay unwell at Marygreen, and on the following Sunday he went to see her—a visit which was the result of a victorious struggle against his inclination to turn aside to the village of Lumsdon and obtain a miserable interview with his cousin, in which the word nearest his heart could not be spoken, and the sight which had tortured him could not be revealed.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Never had he called me more frequently to his presence; never been kinder to me when there—and, alas! never had I loved him so well.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

“Tell her to enjoy her evening as if nothing had happened,” cried Goriot.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Having become intimately acquainted with Dr. Calder when at Northumberland House and Alnwick, Percy intrusted to him the notes he had collected for illustrating the Tatler , Spectator , and Guardian .
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

But David did not hide his claim to the allegiance of these true hearts.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren

But one there was who had seen him, and saved him from the Sink, and loaned him her mule to ride; and in honor of her, though he could not spell her name, he had called it the Willie Meena.
— from Wunpost by Dane Coolidge

Naturally he had conquered, and the favour was received with almost unbelieving joy.
— from Italian Yesterdays, vol. 2 by Fraser, Hugh, Mrs.

I had never heard her character so described, but, of course, I said,— 'To look at you would be enough to reassure the most violent of husbands.'
— from The Making of a Saint by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

But, as Edie justly remarked, when he proposed it, such a course would pretty nearly have amounted to clubbing HIS income with THEIR expenditure; and even in their last extreme of poverty that was an injustice which neither she nor her husband could possibly permit.
— from Philistia by Grant Allen

If Phinuit has not varied about his own name, he has certainly varied in its orthography.
— from Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research by Michael Sage

Ralph proceeded calmly on his way as though nothing had happened, carried his can of sand over to the bench, mixed it well in one of the small oil pails, took up the other and some waste, and went over to one of the two switch engines that had just come in.
— from Ralph of the Roundhouse; Or, Bound to Become a Railroad Man by Allen Chapman

Not for nothing had he come at midnight to set out here and brood over emotions, which would not exist if one tried to define them with names, but which suddenly overwhelm a man when he thinks that he is safest from them.
— from The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann

Nothing, however, has come to light which seems to increase or alter our previous knowledge of the fort.
— from Roman Britain in 1914 by F. (Francis) Haverfield

"I hope no harm has come to Fred or Monteith," she murmured.
— from Cowmen and Rustlers: A Story of the Wyoming Cattle Ranges by Edward Sylvester Ellis