He had gone through many battles; he had been with Pickett in that fiery rush up Cemetery Hill in the face of sixty thousand men and batteries heaped against each other; but there he was a part of things and all was before him to see and to hear: here he only sat in the dusk of the smoke and the ashes and the clouds, while the invisible battle swung to and fro afar.
— from Before the Dawn: A Story of the Fall of Richmond by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Several relics of Bede are preserved in the church, among them the rude, uncomfortable chair he is said to have used.
— from In Unfamiliar England A Record of a Seven Thousand Mile Tour by Motor of the Unfrequented Nooks and Corners, and the Shrines of Especial Interest, in England; With Incursions into Scotland and Ireland. by Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler) Murphy

On the plea of saving £50, and “avoiding rough, unpleasant company,” he informed Mr. Temple in February, 1789, that he would omit the spring Northern Circuit.
— from Boswelliana: The Commonplace Book of James Boswell, with a Memoir and Annotations by James Boswell

In his round, unformed characters he implored her for the last time not to do this thing that she was about to do.
— from After the Divorce: A Romance by Grazia Deledda

The duel was still at the hottest, when a large party of horse rode up, crying, “Hold, in the King's name!” Both champions stepped back—and Quentin saw, with surprise, that his Captain, Lord Crawford, was at the head of the party who had thus interrupted their combat.
— from Quentin Durward by Walter Scott

I wish the gentleman who brought forward the resolutions under consideration, had included that part of the system in his propositions, as it might have had a tendency to ease the mind of the honorable gentleman from Georgia, and to have shown him that the public debt is not intended to acquire the permanency which he dreads.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

She stood erect; he rose up, caught her in his arms, and embraced her passionately.
— from Mont Oriol; or, A Romance of Auvergne: A Novel by Guy de Maupassant

He was thrown from his horse while riding up Constitution Hill in London, and died on the second of July, 1850.
— from Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century by James Richard Joy

"What I have told you, you may rely upon; come here in a day or two again, and you shall hear farther."
— from Natalie Or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds by Ferna Vale