Accordingly she sent the damsel to sleep at his feet; who went as she bade her, for she did not think it consistent with her duty to contradict any command of her mother-in-law.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

In order to give Capt. Clark time to reach the forks of Jefferson's river I concluded to spend this day at the Shoshone Camp and obtain what information I could with rispect to the country.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Their pious care immediately concealed his situation from the crowd; but, in a few minutes, the emperor of the West expired in an agony of pain, retaining his senses till the last; and struggling, without success, to declare his intentions to the generals and ministers, who surrounded the royal couch.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

After these events, while Timoleon was on a campaign in the direction of Kalauria, Hiketes invaded the Syracusan territory, did much damage and insult, and retired loaded with spoil, past the very walls of Kalauria, despising Timoleon, who had but a small force with him.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

For instance, treading upon the register of a furnace, he instantly stooped down, and began to feel it, and soon discovered the way in which the upper plate moved upon the lower one; but this was not enough for him, so lying down upon his face, he applied his tongue first to one, then to the other, and seemed to discover that they were of different kinds of metal.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

In a few words Harding related all that had happened since their departure from Richmond; how they had managed, and what resources they now had at their disposal.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Je lui ai cette obligation entre les autres, de m’ auoir non seulement mis en main cc Livre en anglois, mais encore le Manuscrit du Sieur Thomas D’Anan, gentilhomme Eccossois, recommandable pour sa vertu, sur la version duquel j’ advoue que j’ ay tir� le plan de la mienne.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

German heraldry seems to distinguish between wolkenfeh (cloud vair) and wogenfeh (wave vair; see Fig.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

He put on the cups, and the old tailor, Kiryak, and the little girls stood round and looked on, and it seemed to them that they saw the disease being drawn out of Nikolay; and Nikolay, too, watched how the cups suckling at his breast gradually filled with dark blood, and felt as though there really were something coming out of him, and smiled with pleasure.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"Dear me, I don't know," said Margaret; "let them take care of themselves; I daresay they will find something to do."
— from Amy Herbert by Elizabeth Missing Sewell

How could you have permitted yourself to plunge into such tawdry distractions?
— from Redemption and two other plays by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

They make me realize with increasing intensity that whoever kindles a spark of hope in the breast of another cannot shirk the duty of keeping it alive.
— from Margaret Sanger: an autobiography. by Margaret Sanger

Still, as Professor R. J. Tarrant points out to me, the passage is odd, in that Ovid elsewhere uses care only in conjunction with another vocative (compare viii 89 ' care Suilli' and Tr III iv 1-2 ' care quidem ... sed tempore duro / cognite'); care may have been used as a metrical equivalent to the suppressed name, in the way the "cover names" in elegy correspond to the shape of the alleged actual names of the women.
— from The Last Poems of Ovid by Ovid

"Better shut the door," breathed Henry.
— from The Box-Car Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Summer, and autumn, and winter, and the seasons repeated once again, he tramped across the soil of Virginia, already wet with rebel and patriot blood; he felt the shame and agony of Bull Run; he was in the night struggle at Ball's Bluff, where those wondrous Harvard boys found it "sweet to die for their country," and discovered, for them, "death to be but one step onward in life."
— from What Answer? by Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth) Dickinson

The free opinions of this class of enthusiasts subvert the doctrines of Islamism, yet they pay an outward respect to them; they unsettle the existing belief, without providing an intelligible substitute; they admit the divine mission of the Prophet, but explain away the dogmas he uttered; and while they affect to yield him honour as a person raised up by God, to induce moral order in the world, they boast their own direct and familiar intercourse with Deity, and claim, on that account, unqualified obedience in all that relates to spiritual interests.
— from History of the Moors of Spain by Florian

I think it right also to let you know that since these inquiries were first commenced, since the day for this trial was fixed, the younger of these ladies has been residing with the uncle of my client, under the same roof with my client, as an honoured and most welcome guest, and there, in the face of the whole country, has received that appellation of nobility from all the assembled members of my client's family, to dispute which I apparently now stand before you on that client's behalf."
— from Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope

Henry had in reality come to the conclusion that it was (p. 395) safe to dispense with Anne of Cleves and her relatives; and with his will there was easily found a way.
— from Henry VIII. by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard

“Oh! it would never do for soldiers to dress in common clothes; we should not know that they were soldiers.”
— from Soldiers and Sailors or, Anecdotes, Details, and Recollections of Naval and Military Life, as Related to His Nephews, by an Old Officer. by Old Humphrey