But he was not without contradictoriness and rebellion even towards his own resolve.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

But, could we press the phonograph as well as the camera into our service, and hear again the thunders of stormy oratory, the clash of political warfare, and the pleading tenderness of religious eloquence that has often resounded under that old roof, then indeed we might well forget the world of to-day in the fascination of this drama of the past.
— from Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Development of Cities and Towns Along the Route; and Regions Traversed Beyond the Mississippi; Together with Incidents, Anecdotes and Adventures of the Journey by Willard W. Glazier

The Queen retired early to her own rooms, where she shut herself up with Weber as door-ward.
— from The Hero of the People: A Historical Romance of Love, Liberty and Loyalty by Alexandre Dumas

He was very mysterious about it, evading several offers to accompany him, and after supper he retired early to his own room in the carpenter's house.
— from A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That 'Uncle Paul' Wrote) by Algernon Blackwood

A day will come when nothing will be left to tell the traveller of the industry which drew hundreds of thousands of men to a barren ridge, except the heaps of refuse whose ugliness few shrubs will, in that dry land, spring up to cover.
— from Impressions of South Africa by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

Gifford lectures have been devoted to such diverse themes as Comparative Religion, Primitive Mythologies, Vitalism, Psychology of Religious Experiences, the History of Religious Development at particular Epochs.
— from Theism and Humanism Being the Gifford Lectures Delivered at the University of Glasgow, 1914 by Arthur James Balfour

Aware of my danger I made a bolt through the opened door, and ran with all my might, till trembling from head to foot I met Satyrus, when we both made our way in the dark and retreated each to his own room.
— from The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius Comprising the Ethiopics; or, Adventures of Theagenes and Chariclea; The pastoral amours of Daphnis and Chloe; and the loves of Clitopho and Leucippe by of Emesa Heliodorus