The child was returning to the room where they had passed the evening, when she fancied she saw a figure just gliding in at the door.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

She was very silent as they drove back to Richmond, where they had taken a temporary house: where the smiling lawyers used to come bustling over to see her (and we may be sure noted the visit in the bill): and where of course there was a room for Major Dobbin too, who rode over frequently, having much business to transact on behalf of his little ward.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

31 In his youth he served in the wars of Italy, and was retained, with twelve horsemen, by the bishop of Zagrab: the valor of the white knight 32 was soon conspicuous; he increased his fortunes by a noble and wealthy marriage; and in the defence of the Hungarian borders he won in the same year three battles against the Turks.
— 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

62 The repose which they had sought in the cloister was disturbed by a tardy repentance, profane doubts, and guilty desires; and, while they considered each natural impulse as an unpardonable sin, they perpetually trembled on the edge of a flaming and bottomless abyss.
— 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

and hired one of the men who joined us last night to prosue him and over take us & at 4 after 1 P.M. the indian and Joseph Fields returned with the horse they had found him on his way back about 17 miles.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

All the schooling Betty had had was at Mrs. Bute Crawley's Sunday school, and she could no more read writing than Hebrew.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

In the evening, when I was preparing to make tea and Ada was touching the piano in the adjoining room and softly humming a tune to her cousin Richard, which they had happened to mention, he came and sat down on the sofa near me and so spoke of Ada that I almost loved him.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

His garb was red, with tufted hair And sandalled feet a shade he bare, And from the fiend's left shoulder slung A staff and water-vessel hung.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

[pg 334] he did not see these things for his own sake, since they did not avail him, but for the sake of others, who, knowing of his end, should be afraid to put off the time of repentance, whilst they have leisure, lest, being prevented by sudden death, they should perish impenitent.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Porsena, after ending the Roman war, that his army might not seem to have been led into these parts without effecting any thing, sent his son Aruns with a part of his forces to besiege Aricia.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Don Quixote and Sancho now beheld the sea, which, to them, was a wondrous novelty, and seemed so boundless and so vast that the lakes of Ruydera, which they had seen in La Mancha, could not be compared to it.
— from The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Everybody was extremely glad to adjourn to the restaurant, where tea had been ordered for their party, and a table reserved for them.
— from The Jolliest School of All by Angela Brazil

He was worshipped chiefly in Arcadia, and represented with the horns and feet of a goat.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 03: Tiberius by Suetonius

But the real reason was that he had feathered his nest well, and was in possession of sufficient capital to start an industrial enterprise—the manufacture of paper boxes.
— from Mysteries of Police and Crime, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Arthur Griffiths

A little reflection might have opened Mr Auberly’s eyes to the truth in regard to Willie, but a poor relation was to him a disagreeable subject of contemplation, and he possessed the faculty, in an eminent degree, of dismissing it altogether from his mind.
— from Fighting the Flames by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

In the regions where the hideous death's-head sphinx, the acherontia atropos, abounds, they construct little pillars of wax at the entrance of the hive, so restricting the dimension as to prevent the passage of the nocturnal marauder's enormous abdomen.
— from The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck