I gave him no order; I gave him the stuff.
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

By this time some 400,000 native Alsatians had in the course of years left the country, and about the same number of immigrant Germans had taken their places.
— from Fields of Victory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Unhappily the fire before the altar had been fed chiefly by the beautiful painted panels of this screen, while that in the nave owed its glowing heat to the multitude of chairs which had been broken up and burned upon it.
— from The Great White Army by Max Pemberton

After intrigues creditable neither to himself nor to the powers influenced by them, he succeeded in this same year in having the patent of Perrin set aside, and a new one issued, giving him the sole right of producing operas in France for a period of years.
— from A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews

He knew, because of the rail, that a thing was coming and he could count the number of steps climbed by noting each vibration of the rail; but no other indication gave him that dim sensation of presence which we feel in distinguishing movements which we do not see, in perceiving sounds which we do not hear.
— from The Crystal Stopper by Maurice Leblanc