this chill wind, etc. "The king himself proclaimed her peerless beauty Before the court, And held it were to win a kiss his duty To give a fort,
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

The fear of her coming to poverty has perhaps been bred in me by that.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

That would be my only hope, a poor hope, perhaps, but better than despair.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Thence meeting there with Creed, he and I to the Exchange, and there I saw Carr stand in the pillory for the business of my Lord Gerard, which is supposed will make a hot business in the House of Commons, when they shall come to sit again, the Lords having ordered this with great injustice, as all people think, his only fault being the printing his petition before, by accident, his petition be read in the House.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Morley presented his pistol, but before he could pull the trigger a shot from a trooper in the rear, and who from his position could well observe the intention of Morley, struck Stephen in the breast; still he fired, but aimless and without effect.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

in pl.) happiness, prosperity, blessing , Bo ; Æ, CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

The whirlwind of passion had passed by; but the deep pangs of disappointed expectation, with a long train of gloomy suspicions and painful anticipations, swelled in the bosom of the monarch, like those heavy, sweeping billows which a storm leaves behind on the long-agitated sea.
— from Philip Augustus; or, The Brothers in Arms by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

He worked without payment; he prayed before beginning any work for the Divine guidance in its conception; and believing himself to be so assisted, he regarded each picture as a revelation, and could never be persuaded to alter any part of it.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, April 1884, No. 7 by Chautauqua Institution

When the people had passed by, Brangwen cried in a loud, stupid voice: “I’m going back home if there’s any more of this.
— from Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

He had no chance of preserving his power but by continual warfare.
— from Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Yansey put more on the ball from the start than the deposed pitcher had possessed, beginning by striking out the home team in one, two, three order.
— from Rex Kingdon on Storm Island by Gordon Braddock

We do not know whether it was owing to this cause, or to the plant having previously become bent to one side through heliotropism, but from the morning of the 7th of March to 10.30 P.M. on the 8th, the stem moved a considerable distance in a zigzag line in the same general direction.
— from The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Francis, Sir

The part here played by Blanca was not uncommon during the Peninsular War, enthusiast emissaries having made their appearance in various quarters, preaching the crusade against the French.
— from Iberia Won; A poem descriptive of the Peninsular War With impressions from recent visits to the battle-grounds, and copious historical and illustrative notes by T. M. (Terence McMahon) Hughes

When Alonzo assumed the tiara he pledged his word to the Sacred College that he would keep himself free from all nepotism—thus showing that this was a growing evil—a promise he promptly, broke by bestowing the purple upon his nephew, Juan Luis de Mila, whom he appointed papal representative in Bologna, and upon Rodrigo Borgia, whom he made legate to the Marches and Vice-Chancellor of the Church.
— from Caesar Borgia: A Study of the Renaissance by John Leslie Garner

And standing there, the Priest shall ask, whether any of the persons here presented be baptized, or no: If they shall answer , No; then shall the Priest say thus , Dearly beloved, forasmuch as all men are conceived and born in sin, (and that which is born of the flesh is flesh,) and they that are in the flesh cannot please God, but live in sin, committing many actual transgressions; and that our Saviour Christ saith, none can enter into the kingdom of God, except he be regenerate and born anew of water and of the Holy Ghost; I beseech you to call upon God the Father, through our Lord Jesus Christ, that of his bounteous goodness he will grant to these persons that which by nature they cannot have; that they may be baptized with water and the Holy Ghost, and received into Christ's holy Church, and be made lively members of the same.
— from The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy by Episcopal Church in Scotland

A eunuch of the outer palace hurriedly entered the court, and, prostrating himself profoundly before Belitsum, asked permission to speak.
— from Istar of Babylon: A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter