Had you a special warrant for the deed?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

(f) Next is sluggish water flowing over sand.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Miss Ophelia saw that there was nobody in the camp that would undertake to oversee the cleansing and dressing of the new arrival; and so she was forced to do it herself, with some very ungracious and reluctant assistance from Jane.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The soldiers were firing from around Saint Eustache, and every three minutes sent a ball in their direction, as much as to say, "We are here."
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

I asked her several questions about this girl Matilda, and I ascertained that she was four-and-twenty, that she had always been consumptive, and that she was now, as the doctor said, going off in a rapid decline.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

All were silent, waiting for what he would say.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"If Mademoiselle was a Catholic, she would find true comfort; but, as that is not to be, it would be well if you went apart each day, to meditate and pray, as did the good mistress whom I served before Madame.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

I stopped with Folsom at Mrs. Grimes's, and he sent my horse, as also the other three when Barnes had got in after dark, to a coral where he had a little barley, but no hay.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

For these reasons Mariamne reproached Herod, and his sister and mother, after a most contumelious manner, while he was dumb on account of his affection for her; yet had the women great indignation at her, and raised a calumny against her, that she was false to his bed; which thing they thought most likely to move Herod to anger.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

We sat down outside the sagging wire fence that shut Mr. Shimerda’s plot off from the rest of the world.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

Arthur, whose brother had married Brenda’s sister, was fond of calling Brenda sister-in-law, and for the same reason he had adopted Julia as a cousin.
— from Brenda's Cousin at Radcliffe: A Story for Girls by Helen Leah Reed

Long after Sir Francis had been bundled into his carriage and sent home, the lawyer sat with folded arms and his chin in his hand, examining the topic of the evening in many lights and from various points of view.
— from Dust: A Novel by Julian Hawthorne

The next step was for the contractors to get up false petitions; that is, petitions to be signed by persons who did not live along the route upon which the mail was to be carried.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll

Hardened as he was through constant association with crime and its varied phases, the manager of the agency winced when the story was finished.
— from Tragedies of the White Slave by H. M. Lytle

After her first exclamation of dismay and pain, Zoe had regained her composure, and during the rest of the evening she was full of feverish gaiety.
— from The Money Master, Volume 3. by Gilbert Parker

Outside this the secondary wood forms a regular cylinder round the axis, which shows no sign of annual rings.
— from Ancient Plants Being a Simple Account of the past Vegetation of the Earth and of the Recent Important Discoveries Made in This Realm of Nature by Marie Carmichael Stopes

"But, you see, we find we are not mistaken."
— from The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins

Amiel published it a year before his death, and the struggle with failing power which the Journal reveals to us in its saddest and most intimate reality, is here expressed in more reserved and measured form.
— from Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel by Henri Frédéric Amiel

During the earliest years slavery in Pennsylvania differed from servitude in but little, save that servitude was for a term of years and slavery was for life.
— from Slavery in Pennsylvania A Dissertation Submitted to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Conformity with the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1910 by Edward Raymond Turner