Pleasant inquired, taking her observant stand on one side of the fire.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The thunders of war appear in the powerful head of Lord Lawrence, the music of poetry in the head of Swinburne, and the dry atmosphere of the higher regions of thought in the John Stuart Mill, &c.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

But my eye may pain me, I may have a pain in the head, or sides, or lungs, or in every part of me.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I saw Don Gaspar, I told him the danger he was in if he let it be seen he was a man, I dressed him as a Moorish woman, and that same afternoon I brought him before the king, who was charmed when he saw him, and resolved to keep the damsel and make a present of her to the Grand Signor; and to avoid the risk she might run among the women of his seraglio, and distrustful of himself, he commanded her to be placed in the house of some Moorish ladies of rank who would protect and attend to her; and thither he was taken at once.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Every minute I think a bobby has got me in his fist.” Montparnasse no longer offered more than a feeble resistance; the fact is, that these four men, with the fidelity of ruffians who never abandon each other, had prowled all night long about La Force, great as was their peril, in the hope of seeing Thénardier make his appearance on the top of some wall.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The policy of Julian condescended to surprise the prince of the Alemanni by his own arts: and Vadomair, who, in the character of a friend, had incautiously accepted an invitation from the Roman governors, was seized in the midst of the entertainment, and sent away prisoner into the heart of Spain.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Although the favourite spot had now passed into the hands of strangers, they still frequented the place, to make canoes and baskets, to fish and shoot, and occasionally to follow their old occupation.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

The despair of Philaretus the governor prepared the sacrifice of his religion and loyalty, had not his guilt been prevented by his son, who hastened to the Nicene palace, and offered to deliver this valuable prize into the hands of Soliman.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

I pretended that I disliked the idea that a house belonging to my wife’s father and mother should pass into the hands of strangers.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

There is considerable diversity both in the shape and, where it is present, in the hairy or spiny clothing ( armature ) of caterpillars.
— from The Butterflies of the British Isles by Richard South

Poor little victim, passive in the hands of stronger natures, in the hands of circumstance, heredity, character—that Fate which the ancient gods surely meant by their cryptic saying: "The fate of all men we have hung about their necks...."
— from Kildares of Storm by Eleanor Mercein Kelly

It can be seen that a knowledge of God is slowly spreading over the country and real miracles are being performed in the hearts of some of these erstwhile heathen; miracles greater than the raising of Lazarus from the dead.
— from South and South Central Africa A record of fifteen years' missionary labors among primitive peoples by Hannah Frances Davidson

The Parliament is to have only short adjournments; and our senators, instead of retiring to horseraces ( their plough), are all turned soldiers, and disciplining militia.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 by James Boswell

The intense hostility of the colonists and their successors to monarchical institutions, and the recollection of the cruelties inflicted upon them and upon their predecessors under the authority of kings, had produced a determined repugnance on their part to the concentration of power in the hands of single magistrates.
— from Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States by Martin Van Buren

This scarcity of water is a great evil, particularly in the heat of summer.
— from Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach

Things kept on the stir in Bidwell and the gods of chance played into the hands of Steve Hunter.
— from Poor White: A Novel by Sherwood Anderson

His antique vases passed into the hands of strangers; he deprived himself of the richly-carved panels which adorned the walls of his house; some primitive pictures of the early Flemish painters soon ceased to please his daughter's eyes, and everything, even the precious tools that his genius had invented, were sold to indemnify the clamorous customers.
— from A Winter Amid the Ice, and Other Thrilling Stories by Jules Verne

This was the paper placed in the hands of Saint Aldegonde during the informal negotiations of the preceding year.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1574-84) by John Lothrop Motley