MORSE WORKING ON HIS MACHINE Paints portraits In college he used his spare time in painting, and after graduation he went to England and studied under the best artists.
— from A Beginner's History by William H. (William Harrison) Mace

And the prophet Isaiah called himself undone, because he was a man of unclean lips ; for, said he 'I have seen the King, the Lord of hosts;' that is, he could not take the proper measure of his own iniquity till he had considered the perfect holiness of God."
— from The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, and Other Tales by Hannah More

As I rode somewhat fast through the park, I came, however, upon the steward, just in front of the house.
— from A Strange Story — Volume 03 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

She released his hand and, suddenly plunged into confusion, hurried upstairs.
— from The Whip Hand: A Tale of the Pine Country by Samuel Merwin

"Woman," I said to the priestess, "I came here unarmed, an oak branch in my hand, and bearing a message of peace to the grand chiefs of your hordes.—I was fallen upon and bound fast.—I am in your power—you can kill me—if such be your pleasure—but before you do, have me presented to one of your chiefs.—The interview that I request is of as much importance to the Franks as to the Gauls.
— from The Casque's Lark; or, Victoria, the Mother of the Camps by Eugène Sue

The report of this having spread, some of king James's officers (being there) entered into a resolution to go to church next Lord's day, and to take him 534 out of the pulpit in case he uttered ought against that way.
— from Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie

After he had performed the ceremonies of kissing the ground and the kurnish or prostration, I called him up to my bay window or jharokah .
— from History of Gujarát Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume I, Part I. by James M. Campbell

If there had been any apparent chance of his being able to rob me by the proceeding, I could have understood it.
— from A Rogue by Compulsion An Affair of the Secret Service by Victor Bridges