He was accustomed to do so, and she had often thought that she could urge him to many good actions when he was her brother-in-law.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

When Gunhild's sons heard of this, they set off southwards to Raumsdal and South More; and both parties kept eye on each other by their spies.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Thou hast forgotten, O Sancho, those lines of our poet wherein he paints for us how, in their crystal abodes, those four nymphs employed themselves who rose from their loved Tagus and seated themselves in a verdant meadow to embroider those tissues which the ingenious poet there describes to us, how they were worked and woven with gold and silk and pearls; and something of this sort must have been the employment of my lady when thou sawest her, only that the spite which some wicked enchanter seems to have against everything of mine changes all those things that give me pleasure, and turns them into shapes unlike their own; and so I fear that in that history of my achievements which they say is now in print, if haply its author was some sage who is an enemy of mine, he will have put one thing for another, mingling a thousand lies with one truth, and amusing himself by relating transactions which have nothing to do with the sequence of a true history.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

As soon as the French ships hauled off to the southward, lookout vessels followed them, and preparations continued (notably of fireships) for pursuit.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

So he ordered them to send the horsemen to accompany him, but no longer demanded the hundred select men, nor indeed others in their stead.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Meantime, sail being set forward, while the ship headed on towards the shore, Captain Hartland and the master were engaged in looking out, in the hopes of discovering some sandy beach between the rocks, on which they might run the ship.
— from The Three Midshipmen by William Henry Giles Kingston

Perhaps this impression was explainable by the color of a sort of greasy layer on the skin, due to the sedentary habits of the toiler, showing evidence of the perpetual struggle which went on between that valetudinarian temperament and one of the strongest wills ever known in the history of the human mind.
— from Catherine De Medici by Honoré de Balzac

The greater part of the speech is believed to have been his own composition; and it is characteristic of the fidelity with which, on every occasion, Marie Antoinette adhered to her rule of strengthening her husband's position by her own cordial and conspicuous support, that, strongly as she had objected to the step before it was taken, now that it was decided on, she professed a decided approval of it; and when a deputation of the Assembly, which had been appointed to escort the king with honor back to the palace, solicited an audience of herself to pay their respects, she assured the deputies that "she partook of all the sentiments of the king; that she united with all her heart and mind in the measure which his love for his people had just dictated to him."
— from The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Charles Duke Yonge

Do you know, I’m beginning to wonder whether it wouldn’t be a good plan to switch him over to the subs for a few days.
— from Right Guard Grant by Ralph Henry Barbour

He yelled to William, and William nipped the nearest burro into a shambling half trot, and then went out upon the lake, Casey heading across at the widest part so that he would strike his old trail to Starvation Mountain on the other side.
— from Casey Ryan by B. M. Bower

She held on to the shrouds, the spider-web of ropes that secured the mast, and braced herself against the roll of the ship as the Defiance eased broadside to the sun.
— from Caribbee by Thomas Hoover

If this work shall help others to the same knowledge, the labor involved is worth while.
— from The Expositor's Bible: Index by S. G. (Samuel Gardiner) Ayres

She ran to it and seated herself on the threadbare seat, her tiny feet dangling above the floor.
— from The Little Moment of Happiness by Clarence Budington Kelland