With this assurance, and with a warm grasp of the hand, the Prince left old General de Magny that night; and the veteran retired to rest almost consoled, and confident in Maxime’s eventual and immediate release.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

But not knowing what he was driving at, I waited for further questions, ready to reply as circumstances dictated.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

It was on this occasion that, after a stay of only a few days in Britain, he quitted the island, returned to Rome, and celebrated a splendid triumph.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

The lessons taught me in this respect took such a hold upon me that at the present time, when I am at home, no matter how busy I am, I always make it a rule to read a chapter or a portion of a chapter in the morning, before beginning the work of the day.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Thence he returned to Rome, and crossing the sea to Macedonia, blocked up Pompey during almost four months, within a line of ramparts of prodigious extent; and at last defeated him in the battle of Pharsalia.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

The darkness was increasing with every minute, but I should have twilight for another half-hour, so I went into the chasm (though by no means without fear), and resolved to return and camp, and try some other path next day, should I come to any serious difficulty.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

We were particularly desirous of reclaiming into the way of reason and nature, the deluded Christians who had renounced the religion and ceremonies instituted by their fathers; and presumptuously despising the practice of antiquity, had invented extravagant laws and opinions, according to the dictates of their fancy, and had collected a various society from the different provinces of our empire.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

I also saw that loans were attended with risk commensurate with the rate; nevertheless, I could not attempt to reform the rules and customs established by others before me, and had to drift along with the rest toward that Niagara that none foresaw at the time.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The valor and victory of Thomas were arrested by the presence of the Sword of God ; with the knowledge of the peril, the Moslems recovered their ranks, and charged the assailants in the flank and rear.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

[Pg 388] of assurance that with such words as those to cheer him he would bear his further trials as became a man, but, until fully vindicated of every charge, he would not return to Russell and could not hope to see her; but, once freed from the odium of any and every allegation affecting his integrity, he should come to thank her in person for the strength and comfort her beautiful letter had given him.
— from Marion's Faith. by Charles King

In this, however, humour was not his servant but his master; because it reproduced too readily, and carried too far, the grotesque imaginings to [352] which great humourists are prone; which lie indeed deep in their nature; and from which they derive their genial sympathy with eccentric characters that enables them to find motives for what to other men is hopelessly obscure, to exalt into types of humanity what the world turns impatiently aside at, and to enshrine in a form for eternal homage and love such whimsical absurdity as Captain Toby Shandy's.
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

Being informed by Mr. Bond, that Mr. Hammond is charged with a public mission to the government of the United States, relative to which some previous explanations might be proper, Mr. Jefferson has the honor to assure Mr. Hammond, he shall be ready to receive any communications and enter into explanations, either formally or informally, as Mr. Hammond shall choose, and at any time suitable to him.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson

Columbus's men made ready to receive a cask of wine and side of bacon, which Escobar's companions lifted on board.
— from Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery by Justin Winsor

I should have my own horse and cow and property, and I should do no work!" I must say that, on reflection, I was not surprised that he should have reached this rather astonishing conclusion.
— from Russian Rambles by Isabel Florence Hapgood

That he might not feel that his days of usefulness were over, he had been given the honorary position of Keeper of the Kennel Meat; and much of his life was now spent dozing peacefully before the meat-room door, though he was ever ready to resent a covetous glance from unduly curious dogs.
— from Baldy of Nome by Esther Birdsall Darling

But once, when allusions were made to a certain popular question, on which the premier had announced his resolution to refuse all concession, and on the expediency of which it was announced that the cabinet was nevertheless divided—and when such allusions were coupled with direct appeals to Mr. Egerton, as "the enlightened member of a great commercial constituency," and with a flattering doubt that "that right honorable gentleman, member for that great city, identified with the cause of the Burgher class, could be so far behind the spirit of the age as his official chief,"—Randal observed that Egerton drew his hat still more closely over his brows and turned to whisper with one of his colleagues.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIV, May 1852, Vol. IV by Various

Of course men like yourself, who are afraid of being crowded off the earth, have a special self-given right to raise and cruelly slaughter any living creature for eating.
— from Humanitarian Philosophy, 4th Edition by Emil Edward Kusel

In 1377, when she was in the thirtieth year of her age, after her return from Avignon, and before her final journey to Rome, she was inhabiting a villa belonging to the noble Sienese family of Salimbeni, situated on an isolated eminence overlooking the road to Rome, and called "Rocca d'Orcia."
— from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 1 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope

The night camp is made beside a singing stream or a bubbling spring; the night horses are caught and staked; there is a roaring, merry fire of fragrant cedar boughs; a side of fat ribs is roasting on a spit before the fire, its sweet juices hissing as they drop into the flames, and sending off odors to drive one ravenous; the rich amber contents of the coffee pot is so full of life and strength that it is well-nigh bursting the lid with joy over the vitality and stimulus it is to bring you.
— from The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Edgar Beecher Bronson