“She hath done as I commanded her,” said Sir Phelot, “and thine hour is come that thou must die.”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

They never suspected there might be a joke perpetrated on them while on their way, rather expecting some game in the village, and so proceeded along the highway in careless ease, singing and joking.
— from Those Smith Boys on the Diamond; or, Nip and Tuck for Victory by Howard Roger Garis

Upon this account, when a slave whom the king had lately freed and enriched behaved himself very impertinently in the company of some philosophers, asking them, how it came to pass that the broth of beans whether white or black, was always green, Aridices putting another question, why, let the whips be white or not, the wales and marks they made were still red, displeased him extremely, and made him rise from the table in a great rage and discontent.
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

Two chapels in Santa Croce are painted by his hand; of the smaller pictures ascribed to him in churches and galleries, there is one authentic–the Madonna in the Accademia; and, perhaps most beautiful of all, the Campanile which he designed and commenced still rises in the midst of the city.
— from The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner

He is not now to be reconciled to us, for he was never really at odds, though he covered his countenance with frowns and threats, since the Fall, and hath appeared in fire and thunders and whirlwinds which are terrible, yet his heart had always love in it to such persons; and therefore he is come near in Christ, and about reconciling us to himself.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

He came in trembling with emotion and sobbing painfully, and threw himself into Claude’s arms.
— from Under Sentence of Death; Or, a Criminal's Last Hours by Victor Hugo

The one on the left was opened down the front of the outer case, the silk parted and the heavy inner case cut from top to bottom to show the smooth interior wall, the thin pupa case burst by the exit of the moth, and the cast caterpillar skin crowded at the bottom.
— from Moths of the Limberlost: A Book About Limberlost Cabin by Gene Stratton-Porter

The staring spectacles piteously appealed to him— "I can't stand it—I can't stand it.
— from The Prelude to Adventure by Hugh Walpole