The imagination of the President was not so easily touched: he instructed Clay to inquire more particularly into the purposes of the congress.
— from Union and Democracy by Allen Johnson

This woman was really his servant, employed to help in cleaning, and taken on whenever there was extra work to be done.
— from Chronicles of Newgate, Vol. 2 From the eighteenth century to its demolition by Arthur Griffiths

Hunters say that a deer seldom looks higher than his head, and that a sportsman on one of these scaffoldings, even though he is clumsy in his movements, is seldom noticed by the animal.
— from Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making by W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson

No demonstration seemed beautiful enough to grace the betrayal of his passion, no language eloquent enough to tell it, no power strong enough to hold in check the impulse that mastered him.
— from Moods by Louisa May Alcott

Mr. Beaufeu, a French minister, confined there, made his escape; and the Sultan was so enraged, that he immediately caused the governor to be strangled in his own prison.
— from Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor Series One and Series Two in one Volume by R. (Robert) Walsh

Although Ivan Kouzmitch entertained the greatest respect for his wife, he would not for anything in the world have confided to her a secret entrusted to him in connection with the service.
— from The Prose Tales of Alexander Pushkin by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

"Bob gave it to me," she explained, telling how it came about.
— from The Bobbsey Twins at the County Fair by Laura Lee Hope