Samuel Miles, alias Robert King.
— from The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

Yet it does not strike me as remarkable keenness on the part of a woman if, after the experience she gains in following the [71] bugle a time, and with her wits sharpened by affection, she decides that a move is about to take place.
— from Tenting on the Plains; or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas by Elizabeth Bacon Custer

She is the only one who has shown me any real kindness, and I don't want her to think of me only as a blundering, tongue-tied fool."
— from From Jest to Earnest by Edward Payson Roe

"Is thy servant a slave of a princess that she should marry a rickety king?
— from The Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grand

The table was absolutely bare" CHAPTER IV For a full, strained moment not a sound escaped the company; even the strongest natures, Slade, Majendie and Rita Kildair seemed powerless to grasp what had taken place.
— from The Sixty-First Second by Owen Johnson

You couldn't have given me anything, either, that would have delighted me so much." "All right; keep it, and there's an end of the matter.
— from The Unclassed by George Gissing

He, in a parti-coloured wadded dressing-gown fastened about the waist with a wide belt of the same material, a red knitted cap adorned with a tassel, and soft slippers of goat skin, went on walking round the walls and taking aim at, and slapping, flies. “Suppose,” I thought to myself, “that I am only a small boy, yet why should he disturb me?
— from Childhood by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In this happy condition, redeemed by the blood of Jesus, our Savior, made "a royal [kingly] priesthood" in the "holy nation" of "peculiar people" that have been gathered out of all nations of earth (1 Pet.
— from The Revelation Explained An Exposition, Text by Text, of the Apocalypse of St. John by F. G. (Frederick George) Smith

As she moves about, REDDY keeps her well in the light of the lantern.)
— from Miss Civilization: A Comedy in One Act by Richard Harding Davis