This departure from his regular and constant habit, in one so regular and unvarying in all that appertained to the daily pursuit of riches, would almost of itself have told that the usurer was not well.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

"Yes," she returned, absently, continuing her inspection of him.
— from The Wild Olive: A Novel by Basil King

Having looked around carefully, Josiah Crabtree retired and continued his inspection of the sleeping rooms.
— from The Putnam Hall Encampment; or, The Secret of the Old Mill by Edward Stratemeyer

Having scourged the guide with rods and crucified him, in order to strike terror into all others, he fortified a camp, and sent Maharbal with the cavalry into the Falernian territory to pillage.
— from The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 by Livy

"Thirteen hundred francs," said the artisan, without looking at Rudolph, and continuing his imaginary occupation.
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue

It might have seemed natural, after such an exhibition, that Philip Egmont should accept his character of renegade, and confess his intention of reconciling himself with the murderers of his father.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 30: 1579-80 by John Lothrop Motley

In his dispatch to the United States Minister at St. Petersburg, dated April 15, 1882, the new Secretary of State, Frederic T. Frelinghuysen, takes account of the prevailing sentiment in the country in these words: "The prejudice of race and creed having in our day given way to the claims of our common humanity, the people of the United States have heard with great regret the stories of the sufferings of the Jews in Russia."
— from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 2 [of 3] From the Death of Alexander I until the Death of Alexander III (1825-1894) by Simon Dubnow