As we heard some of his people remarking even now that we had only "five guns", we declined, on the ground that, as they were intent on plundering us, giving a gun would be helping them to do so.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

W hen I P resently E ntered the R esounding C loisters of the O rder of ST. PENDENNIS —when [ img ] I entered this " H ouse without a W oman" I sought the seclusion of a dark, W ine- C olored, P lush- L ined C ell, and carelessly placing the T anned G ingham, V egetable-
— from Love Instigated: The Story of a Carved Ivory Umbrella Handle by Douglass Sherley

“I wonder if he knows where Paradise Road ends near the edge of the marsh.”
— from Rose O'Paradise by Grace Miller White

He found life so monotonous, however, that he asked the sheriff to let him go out to work during the day, promising to sleep in his cell, and such was his reputation for honesty that his request was granted without a demur, the prisoner returning every night to be locked up.
— from Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 04 : Tales of Puritan Land by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

But these movements, and others like them, were after all secondary in importance to [Pg 63] the main object of the Port Royal expedition, namely, the permanent acquisition of Port Royal itself, as an aid to the naval operations on the Atlantic coast.
— from John Call Dalton, M.D., U.S.V. by John Call Dalton

And at the same moment they were thinking of him; and in their elaborate villa overlooking the blue Mediterranean at Cannes were discussing, in the event of Mamie's marriage with Prince Rosso e Negro, the possibility of Mr. Mulrady's paying two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, the gambling debts of that unfortunate but deeply conscientious nobleman.
— from A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready by Bret Harte

Its violent struggles, moreover—the partial and alternate raising of its shoulders, its excited shrieks—and the proboscis, rapidly extended now to this side, now to that, as if searching to grasp some support—all proved the truth of Ossaroo’s assertion—the rogue was sinking in the quicksand.
— from The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" by Mayne Reid

It was a long panelled room, extending nearly the whole length of the northern side.
— from Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by George Borrow

He was the younger son of the then reigning Grand Duke and had left home for political reasons, expecting never to return.
— from Charred Wood by Kelley, Francis Clement, Bp.