I often confuted his notions: often in our disputations I pushed a good argument so home, that all his subtilty was not able to elude its force.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

The queen had died on the 30th of July, 1683, piously and gently as she had lived.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, March 1884, No. 6 by Chautauqua Institution

For that the said defendant, on the first day of September, in the year of our Lord 1843, assaulted the said plaintiff, to wit, at New-York, in the county and state of New-York, and then and there spit in the face of the said plaintiff, and with great force and violence seized and laid hold of the said plaintiff by his nose, and greatly squeezed and pulled the same; and then and there plucked, pulled, and tore divers large quantities of hair from and off the head of the said plaintiff; and then and there, with a certain stick and with his fists gave and struck the said plaintiff a great many violent blows and strokes on and about divers parts of his body; and also then and there, with great force and violence, shook and pulled about the said plaintiff, and cast and threw the said plaintiff down to and upon the ground, and then and there violently kicked the said plaintiff, and gave and struck him a great many other blows and strokes; and also then and there, with great force and violence, rent, tore, and damaged the clothes and wearing apparel, to wit, one coat, one waistcoat, one pair of breeches, one cravat, one shirt, one pair of stockings, and one hat, of the said plaintiff, of great value, to wit, of the value of one hundred dollars, which the said plaintiff then and there wore, and was clothed with.
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 3, September 1843 by Various

Had there been time for such an arrangement, he would have procured a governess, and sent her away to some sea-side spot.
— from Luttrell Of Arran by Charles James Lever

Every man who performs a gallant action shall have his name made known to the nation.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

He took the advice as to provisions, and getting a small hamper laid in a stock of food sufficient for three or four days.
— from In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in Colorado by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Parley P. Pratt and George A. Smith had arrived some time before.
— from Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney

She was merry and beautiful and wise and kind; and she was all dressed in pink and green, and she had great eyes that were sometimes filled with laughter and sometimes filled with tears, and her round soft mouth looked as though it had done nothing but smile for hundreds and hundreds of years.
— from The Other Side of the Sun: Fairy Stories by Evelyn Sharp

[Pg 42] Lizer had climbed into an erect position, and, gravid and slow, had got as far as the passage.
— from Tales of Mean Streets by Arthur Morrison

At this time, too, he became acquainted, in Edinburgh, with Leyden, also a border man, full of ballad and poetry, and with powers as gigantic as Scott himself, though uncouth as a colt from the moors.
— from Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. 2 (of 2) by William Howitt