The room was decorated much in the same tomb-like fashion as the other one, but there were mummies standing round the wall at intervals in their richly adorned coffins, and the two windows looking on to Bond Street were draped with rich Eastern stuffs to entirely exclude the light of day.
— from The Spider by Fergus Hume

And you, Madame, with what happiness do you renew each season the enjoyment caused by new clothes?
— from Monsieur, Madame, and Bébé — Complete by Gustave Droz

On the other hand, Sir H. Kitchener required every soldier the Egyptian army could muster to carry out the operations on the Nile.
— from The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Winston Churchill

I have recognized everything; some things even which I did not see.
— from Light by Henri Barbusse

We select it, secondly, because the Irish have successfully refused ever since to enter into the various currents of European opinion, although, by position and still more by religion, they formed a part of Europe.
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud

Supposing Rio to have been one of those cities, where would the Acropolis have been, and where would the citizens have met in their assembly before they rushed to attack a tyrant, and to what sea-girt fortress would a ruler have sent his captives by water 395 as the East Roman emperors seized their enemies and sent them into exile from the Bosphorus?
— from South America: Observations and Impressions New edition corrected and revised by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

On or before the 10th of April he had reflected more maturely on the situation, and with that intuitive recognition of when to give way, which only strong rulers ever seem to exhibit, and which the masterful Elizabeth had displayed before him, he saw that the time had arrived to yield.
— from William the Third by H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill

They must have occurred with absolute regularity ever since the earth began to revolve around the sun in its present elliptical orbit.
— from Climatic Changes: Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington