Among other things there were also thirty golden ducks, exactly resembling the living bird, and of splendid workmanship; further figures resembling lions, tigers, dogs and apes; likewise ten chains with lockets, all of gold, and of the most costly workmanship; a bow with the string and twelve arrows, and two staffs five palms in length, like those used by the justices, all cast of the purest gold; further, they brought small cases containing the most beautiful green feathers, blended with gold and silver, and fans similarly worked; every species of game likewise cast in gold.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

In such cases, consider the minds of your audience as so many safes that have been locked and the keys lost.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon the lip which is so terrible in death.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

She came close to me, put her arms round me and stayed motionless in that position.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But little vantage shall I reap thereby, For ere the six years that he hath to spend Can change their moons and bring their times about, My oil-dried lamp and time-bewasted light Shall be extinct with age and endless night; My inch of taper will be burnt and done, And blindfold death not let me see my son.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I met her before she could come to me and folded her in my arms.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

“Yes.” answered the abbé; “Edmond related to me everything until the moment when he was arrested in a small cabaret close to Marseilles.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

It was the soul of my husband!—Well, if my husband’s soul can come to me, why should not my soul reappear to guard my granddaughter?
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Anne suddenly came close to Marilla and slipped her hand into the older woman’s hard palm.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Neither side could claim the mastery.
— from Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground by Constance Lindsay Skinner

A few moments later Talabor was in the spacious courtyard, collecting the men who formed the watch or guard, while the old governor hurried with some difficulty up the stairs which led to the porter's room, over the gate.
— from 'Neath the Hoof of the Tartar; Or, The Scourge of God by Jósika, Miklós, báró

If ever I make you sad, if I am untender to you,—may God strike me"— "Hush," she cried, clinging to me, and closing my lips with a kiss for which I would have died; "Hush, love!
— from The Gates Between by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

XXXI DISAPPOINTED HOPES Annette's death and Mignonne's unjust suspicions of me left me in a melancholy mood; and when, as sometimes happened, Madame Sordeville's conduct came to my mind, it did not tend to restore my self-contentment.
— from Frédérique, vol. 1 by Paul de Kock

The division of the people into clans, tribes or families, under separate chiefs, constituted the most remarkable circumstance in their political condition, which ultimately resulted in many of their peculiar sentiments, customs and institutions.
— from An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean

After a few moments she heard the same voice still calling, “—— ---- Come to me, come!
— from Letters on Natural Magic; Addressed to Sir Walter Scott, Bart. by David Brewster

She came close to me.
— from The Cruise of the Shining Light by Norman Duncan

And now, child,” she continued, as Ottilie, still closely clinging to my side, looked up inquiringly, “no time to lose; there is death in this for thy gracious lord, if not for us all as well.”
— from The Pride of Jennico: Being a Memoir of Captain Basil Jennico by Egerton Castle

At last, she crept close to me, looked at the ground, and whispered with a deep sigh: "How you must hate me, Clara."
— from Clara Vaughan, Volume 3 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore