She kept her eyes shut, because then he would think she wanted to sleep and would go away.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Accidit hodie terribilis casus (saith [1898] S. Austin) hear a miserable accident; Cyrillus' son this day in his drink, Matrem praegnantem nequiter oppressit, sororem violare voluit, patrem occidit fere, et duas alias sorores ad mortem vulneravit , would have violated his sister, killed his father, &
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

After his death his companions were driven out of Thapsus, and founded a place called the Hyblaean Megara; Hyblon, a Sicel king, having given up the place and inviting them thither.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Dì hinúun siya kamau, He just took a try at cooking.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

If anyone in heaven has that face I shall know him again.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Not that he ever intentionally wounded her; she knew he never meant to, she knew he often had no idea of having done it.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

The child has such a little way to fall he will not break his leg; if he knocks himself with a stick he will not break his arm; if he seizes a sharp knife he will not grasp it tight enough to make a deep wound.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When David had received the sword, he fled out of the country of the Hebrews into that of the Philistines, over which Achish reigned; and when the king's servants knew him, and he was made known to the king himself, the servants informing him that he was that David who had killed many ten thousands of the Philistines, David was afraid lest the king should put him to death, and that he should experience that danger from him which he had escaped from Saul; so he pretended to be distracted and mad, so that his spittle ran out of his mouth; and he did other the like actions before the king of Gath, which might make him believe that they proceeded from such a distemper.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The girl anxiously replied that her mistress was very seldom out now, even in a carriage; that she kept her room; that she saw no company, but would see me.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

On the Removal, she kept her Eye fixt on it, and began a wailing sort of Cry, which seemed rather to proceed from the Loss of her young one, than the Sense of her own Torments.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

She was his, and he should keep her, he said to himself, and then he wondered how his grandmother had managed with her, and if she had cried for him or her mother, and as he reached the house he stood still a moment to listen.
— from Gretchen: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

“No,” he rejoined, “a woman never should.” There was no admission of equality to be got out of him, so she kissed him.
— from Sandra Belloni (originally Emilia in England) — Complete by George Meredith

For once the private secretary knew his own business, which was to imitate his father as closely as possible and hold his tongue.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Students know how difficult it is to prepare a stem, a stamen, an epithelium, for dissection, and how only with difficulty the hand, accustomed for years exclusively to writing, adapts itself to this delicate work.
— from The Montessori Elementary Material The Advanced Montessori Method by Maria Montessori

An awful conviction of helplessness depressed Sheila's heart, but she kept her eyes leveled on Miss Blake's. "Do you suppose I will stay here with you one hour, if you treat me like this?"
— from Hidden Creek by Katharine Newlin Burt

And the Sawhorse, knowing his passengers were eager to arrive, broke into a swift trot that soon brought them to their destination.
— from The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

"Please let me go," she said, keeping her eyes steadily from him.
— from The Blower of Bubbles by Beverley Baxter

They with their authority and special knowledge, have said what might have been difficult for a New Zealand officer.
— from New Zealanders at Gallipoli by Fred Waite

I should be the last man in the world to suggest that a young man should keep himself "tied to his mother's apron-strings," as is the saying of the people; and this is not what I mean when I again earnestly suggest that he keep as close to his mother's opinions, teachings, and influence as the circumstances of life will permit.
— from The Young Man and the World by Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah) Beveridge