Meanwhile Troy had added a few touches to his ordinary make-up for the character, the more effectually to disguise himself, and though he had felt faint qualms on first entering, the metamorphosis effected by judiciously "lining" his face with a wire rendered him safe from the eyes of Bathsheba and her men.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

In about a quarter of an hour from the time when we entered the kitchen, good Mrs. Yolland was persuaded that she was talking to Rosanna’s best friend, and was pressing Sergeant Cuff to comfort his stomach and revive his spirits out of the Dutch bottle.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The owner found his sole resource His servants and his dog to curse.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

He said he had seen Ulysses with Idomeneus among the Cretans, refitting his ships which had been damaged in a gale.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

If a man purify himself to wait upon me, I receive him so purified, without guaranteeing his past conduct.' CHAP.
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

He presently sat down on the other side of his daughter, who had shyly brushed Isabel’s fingers with her own; but he ended by drawing her out of her chair and making her stand between his knees, leaning against him while he passed his arm round her slimness.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

The lake is past, Duncraggan's huts appear at last, And peep, like moss-grown rocks, half seen Half hidden in the copse so green; There mayst thou rest, thy labor done, Their lord shall speed the signal on.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

So, when their feet were planted on the plain That broadened toward the base of Camelot, Far off they saw the silver-misty morn Rolling her smoke about the Royal mount, That rose between the forest and the field.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

In this lane is one notable grammar school, founded in the year 1561 by the master, wardens, and assistants of the Merchant-Tailors, in the parish of St. Laurence Poultney; Richard Hilles, sometime master of that company, having before given £500 towards the purchase of a house, called the manor of the Rose, sometime belonging to the Duke of Buckingham, wherein the said school is kept.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Mary's heart ached these days as she realized how she had been pushed out of his living.
— from Mountain: A Novel by Clement Wood

Notwithstanding the popular feeling that Catharine was an injured woman and that war with the Empire might ruin the valuable trade with Flanders, the "government," as would now be said, that is, the king, received hearty support by the majority of members.
— from The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith

To make the horse change, say from gallop right to gallop left, in any stride, the forces must first be fairly united; the right heel should be applied when the forehand is down, and as the hind legs are leaving the ground; immediately thereafter, as the forehand is rising, the left rein should make a slight play which will insure the change in the fore legs, and the change will be completed without a false step and without any disturbance of the pace.
— from Riding and Driving by Edward L. (Edward Lowell) Anderson

I really have some chance.”
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

At the peak of rocks he showed an inclination to stop, and Bud, who had been thinking and planning while he hoped, pulled him to a stand and waited for the others to come up.
— from Cow-Country by B. M. Bower

Thou mayst lame me, like Jobst or Wedel, or murder me as others, it will not help thee; for my friend hath sworn, if such happen, that he will ride straight to Marienfliess, and run his sword through thy body without a word.
— from Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 by Wilhelm Meinhold

When the clever minister returned, having smitten down the elephant as if it were the pride of that king Dharmagopa, the king Bhadrabáhu was in ecstasies.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

Vere held with the Archduke there, till he had reenforced himself, Sir Franc. said that the banes must be thrice askt, and yf at the last tyme anie lawefull cause can be showen, the marriage may be hindred.
— from Diary of John Manningham Of the Middle Temple, and of Bradbourne, Kent, Barrister‑at‑Law, 1602-1603 by John Manningham

As his cruelty is more shocking than his corruption, so his hypocrisy has something more frightful than his cruelty; for whilst his bloody and rapacious hand signs proscriptions, and now sweeps away the food of the widow and the orphan, his eyes overflow with tears, and he converts the healing balm that bleeds from wounded humanity into a rancorous and deadly poison to the race of man.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Robert went from room to room, repeating his short speech, then work recommenced.
— from The Portion of Labor by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman