"With pleasure," said Don Ramón; and cursing his evil star he followed the two men into the toldo.
— from The Pearl of the Andes: A Tale of Love and Adventure by Gustave Aimard

The King goes midmost, and the rivals ride In equal rank, and close his either side.
— from Dryden's Palamon and Arcite by Geoffrey Chaucer

When an earthly mother rebukes and chastises her erring son, she does not give him over to the hangman or to the wolves, nor make a knave of him, but she restrains him and shows him by her chastisement that he is in danger of the hangman, and thus keeps him at home in his father's house.
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Martin Luther

The king goes midmost, and the rivals ride In equal rank, and close his either side.
— from The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden

A few days!” repeated Miss Larkin, and, looking helplessly about, she sank back into the chair from which she had risen, and, closing her eyes, seemed about to faint away.
— from Marjorie in Command by Carolyn Wells

He merely settled his head upon my breast, gave a deep sigh as if of relief, and closing his eyes, said: “Now, Brunken, go on!”
— from The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill

Her thoughts came rapid and confused; her eyes swam; her heart beat fast.
— from The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Emerson Hough

When Rodney Maxwell came across the bridge from the dock after they opened the airlocks, he was followed by a dozen Barton-Massarra private police, as villainous-looking a collection of ruffians as Conn had ever seen.
— from The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper