Jo looks all round the court again, looks at his questioner's knees again, and concludes by laying his profile against the hoarding in a sort of resignation.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

So after groping his way a few paces down the passage, and, to his infinite alarm, stumbling over several pairs of boots in so doing, Mr. Pickwick crouched into a little recess in the wall, to wait for morning, as philosophically as he might. He was not destined, however, to undergo this additional trial of patience; for he had not been long ensconced in his present concealment when, to his unspeakable horror, a man, bearing a light, appeared at the end of the passage.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

It is perhaps absurd to have introduced any such custom, but it would be almost an injustice to deprive one's nearest and dearest of what is now long-established.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Fanny felt that she must; and though she had not waited for that sentence to be thinking of Edmund, such a memento made her particularly awake to his idea, and she fancied him sitting in that room again and again, perhaps in the very spot where she sat now, listening with constant delight to the favourite air, played, as it appeared to her, with superior tone and expression; and though pleased with it herself, and glad to like whatever was liked by him, she was more sincerely impatient to go away at the conclusion of it than she had been before; and on this being evident, she was so kindly asked to call again, to take them in her walk whenever she could, to come and hear more of the harp, that she felt it necessary to be done, if no objection arose at home.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

She was in a church, a church with pillars and arches, beautifully decorated; the organ was pealing, and people advancing towards her, in a strange garb, and they were talking,--yes, talking in church, and in a language she did not understand.
— from The Fisher Girl by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

So after groping his way a few paces down the passage, and, to his infinite alarm, stumbling over several pairs of boots in so doing, Mr. Pickwick crouched into a little recess in the wall, to wait for morning as philosophically as he might.
— from The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 1 (of 2) by Charles Dickens

In 1879 he applied for a pension, alleging that he incurred a sunstroke on July 20, 1862.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Grover Cleveland

The idea of “her child” teaching a common school outraged the old woman’s sense of propriety, and threw her into a state of violent agitation.
— from Red Rock: A Chronicle of Reconstruction by Thomas Nelson Page

Marcus Brutus and the others were immediately executed; but Pompeius had enjoined that the consul Carbo should be brought before himself at Lilybaeum in order that, unmindful of the protection accorded to him in a season of peril by that very man,(17) he might personally hand him over to the executioner (672).
— from The History of Rome, Book IV The Revolution by Theodor Mommsen

The ground of this extreme animosity which she felt toward Jalaloddin was not any personal animosity to him ; it arose simply from an [Pg 294] ancient and long-continued dislike and hatred which she had borne against his mother!
— from Genghis Khan, Makers of History Series by Jacob Abbott