In three days, your friend the secretary will be directed to come to your house and read before you the articles of impeachment; and then to signify the great lenity and favor of his majesty and council, whereby you are only condemned to the loss of your eyes, which his majesty doth not question you will gratefully and humbly submit to; and twenty of his majesty's surgeons will attend, in order to see the operation well performed, by discharging very sharp-pointed arrows into the balls of your eyes as you lie on the ground.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

“In three days your friend the secretary will be directed to come to your house, and read before you the articles of impeachment; and then to signify the great lenity and favour of his majesty and council, whereby you are only condemned to the loss of your eyes, which his majesty does not question you will gratefully and humbly submit to; and twenty of his majesty’s surgeons will attend, in order to see the operation well performed, by discharging very sharp-pointed arrows into the balls of your eyes, as you lie on the ground.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

He remained silent for some time, and then ordered his man to tell the priest to put a lock on my door and give me the key.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It is manifest that serious thoughts at times occupied his mind.
— from History of Frederick the Second, Called Frederick the Great. by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Possessed of natural oratorical ability, his power in that direction, supplementing the analytical trend of his mind and added to his broad knowledge of the law, has gained him distinction as one of the younger members of the Montreal bar.
— from Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

First, you must get the girl’s consent: and, I should think, also that of her master and mistress.
— from The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid

In addition to the scuttle bonnet which was not quite so tremulous as that of her mother, she now sported a blue flannel petticoat.
— from The Madman and the Pirate by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

He is the best actor of his part, who is devoid of care and delight, and continues in the same tone and tenor of his mind, and retains the clearness of his understanding at all times, without feeling any joy or sorrow at anything.
— from The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, vol. 3 (of 4) part 2 (of 2) by Valmiki

[35] Polly coughed several times and then opened her mouth to speak, but Billy was staring into the fire poking at the logs with his wet boot.
— from The Camp Fire Girls Amid the Snows by Margaret Vandercook

The mighty events that have lately taken place in Italy “show that a tone of hypocrisy may cling to the tongue, long after the spirit of a nation is emancipated, and that where grand words are found in a speech, there grand thoughts, noble purposes, high resolves exist also; or, at least, the spark slumbers which [70] a favoring breath may, at any moment, kindle into a cherishing and devouring flame.”
— from Words; Their Use and Abuse by William Mathews