He would not use many of the comforts sent him, but insisted on wearing an army dressing-gown, and slippers that cost him a secret pang every time his eye was affronted by their ugliness.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Then vanish'd all the lovely lights; The bodies rose anew: With silent pace, each to his place, Came back the ghastly crew.
— from Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798) by William Wordsworth

1, 111, since punishment eterne they have in death to fear .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

However, since a way has been found to transform it into dynamite, that is to say, to mix with it some solid substance, clay or sugar, porous enough to hold it, the dangerous liquid has been used with some security.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Mr. Landholm's long and utter cessation of visits, from whatever cause, says plainly enough that he does not desire the pleasure of your society; don't do anything that even looks like forcing it upon him.
— from Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner

Then, once more--as he had had now so often to go over the sad history to others, with but little fresh information added to each recital--Lord Penlyn told Sir Paul everything that he knew, and of the strange manner in which the Señor Guffanta had come into the matter, as well as his apparent certainty of eventually finding the murderer.
— from The Silent Shore: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

20:16 For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. 20:17 From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

To which she only answered, ‘We shall see knowing that in his present state of mind he would only set down the hopeful tokens that she perceived either to hypocrisy on the girl’s side, or weakness on hers.
— from The Two Sides of the Shield by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

And wandring therin too and fro, met at length with a kind of hovell or shelter purposely erected to harbour swine and other cattell in times of cold and wett weather; and there taking up a resolution to fix, crossed themselves and retired therin.
— from The Cathedral Church of Oxford A description of its fabric and a brief history of the Episcopal see by Percy Dearmer

I am almost certain that since Ploszow existed there had never been heard such music within its walls, but I paid very little attention to it.
— from Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

The bodies rose anew: With silent pace, each to his place, Came back the ghastly crew, The wind, that shade nor motion made, On me alone it blew.
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He saw plainly enough that he had not risked his reputation for nothing.
— from Corleone: A Tale of Sicily by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Forced, when hardly more than a girl herself, to protect her infant son, Prince Eochy, the heir to his father's wide domains, from the continued assaults, not only of neighbouring chieftains, but also of rebellious and usurping subjects, she had become a very amazon.
— from Baron Bruno; Or, The Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Louisa Morgan