"I have finished my professional visit," he said, coming forward.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Yet it was a long time before the orphan whom Pelagie Vautrin had so cruelly ill-treated ceased to think of her, or shudder as he remembered her terrible death.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

his prouince vnto his successor Cneus Trebellius, appointed thereto by the emperour Domitianus, in good quiet and safegard.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

P. V." He soon came to be a great favorite with the boys, not only of his own company, but of the entire regiment as well, the men of the different companies thinking quite as much of him as if he belonged to each of them individually, and not to Sergeant Kensill, of Company F., alone.
— from The Recollections of a Drummer-Boy by Henry Martyn Kieffer

And on either side of the bed lay two large black bearskins, edged with pink velvet, having silver claws, and with their heads turned towards the window, gazing fixedly at the empty sky through their glass eyes.
— from The Rush for the Spoil (La Curée): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola

Although the helmet restricted his peripheral vision, he still could hear clearly through headphones miked on the outside, although they did make the din of the hangar sound tinny and artificial.
— from Project Daedalus by Thomas Hoover

And any of these perplexed voters, having somehow contrived to strike a balance with his conscience, and to give a vote, will, perhaps, in a year’s, or in six years’, time find that he has been the [ 264 ] instrument of placing in power an administration which is now proceeding to pass measures that he abhors.
— from A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations of an Optimist by T. Baron Russell