Konishi, on the other hand, was less numerously and perhaps less influentially backed by, and made the champion of, the European brethren; and as all the negotiations between the invaders and the allied Koreans and Chinese had to be conducted in the Chinese script, the alien fathers were, as secretaries and interpreters, less useful than the native Japanese bonzes.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

At last the aforesaid king himself, with the most holy Bishop Trumwine, 751 and other religious and powerful men, sailed to the island; many also of the brothers from the isle of Lindisfarne itself, assembled together for the same purpose: they all knelt, and conjured him by the Lord, with tears and entreaties, till they drew him, also in tears, from his beloved retreat, and forced him to go to the synod.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

V. tend towards, bend towards, point towards; conduct to, go to; point to, point at; bend, trend, verge, incline, dip, determine. steer for, steer towards, make for, make towards; aim at, level at; take aim; keep a course, hold a course; be bound for; bend one's steps towards; direct one's course, steer one's course, bend one's course, shape one's course; align one's march, allign one's march[obs3]; to straight, go straight to the point; march on, march on a point.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

She took a key, and conducted him herself to a room, and advised him to make out a note of what he was leaving.
— from The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830 by Stendhal

Why, he took a knife and cut his own throat, and immediately gave up the ghost and died.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

She did not understand how a man so thoughtful and kindly as Chirac—he had bidden her good night with the most distinguished courtesy—could tolerate, much less pleasurably savour, the gluttonous, drunken, and salacious debauchery of the Hotel de Vezelay; but his theory was, so far as she could judge from his imperfect English, that whatever existed might be admitted and examined by serious persons interested in the study of human nature.
— from The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

I am far frae being clear that Nature hersel', though a kindly auld carline, has been a'thegither just to Scotland seeing that she has sae contrived that some o' our greatest men, that ought by richt to hae been Scotchmen, were born in England and other countries, and sae have been kenned as Englishers, or else something not quite sae guid .
— from Scotch Wit and Humor by W. H. (Walter Henry) Howe

Then presently Saion Zenji took a knife, and cut him a piece of flesh from the side of the dappled hind.
— from Japanese Fairy Tales by Grace James

No trouble for regular colonizers that go in order and conform to the laws and make their applications beforehand, so that when they arrive at the custom house they are known as colonizers, haphazzard work in Mexico makes trouble the same as in any other country.
— from Forty Years Among the Indians A true yet thrilling narrative of the author's experiences among the natives by Daniel W. (Daniel Webster) Jones