But when Denísov explained that his purpose was to kill the French, and asked if no French had strayed that way, the elder replied that some “more-orderers” had really been at their village, but that Tíkhon Shcherbáty was the only man who dealt with such matters.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

For all the time that Edwin reigned, the sons of the aforesaid Ethelfrid, who had reigned before him, with many of the younger nobility, lived in banishment among the Scots or Picts, and were there instructed according to the doctrine of the Scots, and were renewed with the grace of Baptism.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Several deeds of valour are performed; Meriones, losing his spear in the encounter, repairs to seek another at the tent of Idomeneus: this occasions a conversation between those two warriors, who return together to the battle.
— from The Iliad by Homer

It passed slowly out of sight; but still he heard in his ears the laborious drone of the engine reiterating the syllables of her name.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

The elms rustled, the sparrows in the ivy just outside the window chirped and fluttered about, quarrelling, and making it up again; the rooks, young and old, talked in chorus, and the merry shouts of the boys and the sweet click of the cricket-bats came up cheerily from below.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

A merciful power interposed, and no blood was shed; for, while the insane mob were in the very act of attack, the females, wives, mothers and daughters, rushed between; they seized the bridles; they embraced the knees of the horsemen, and hung on the necks, or enweaponed arms of their enraged relatives; the shrill female scream was mingled with the manly shout, and formed the wild clamour that welcomed us on our arrival.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I would leave him to imagine himself surrounded by myriads of invisible tormentors, ever ready to snatch from his infernal grasp his trembling prey.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

They respected each other, but were in complete and hopeless disagreement upon almost every subject, not because they belonged to opposite parties, but precisely because they were of the same party (their enemies refused to see any distinction between their views); but, in that party, each had his own special shade of opinion.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I can still remember your complete indifference as to whether the sun moved round the earth or the earth round the sun.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had already read it, but I looked through it again, to kill time, even reading the society notes.
— from Guy Garrick by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

Only a week before the proudest fleet that ever rode the seas laughed in derision at the puny vessels that alone stood between it and victory over the heretic Queen and her pirate countrymen, who for years had plundered and insulted with impunity the most powerful sovereign in Europe.
— from The Year after the Armada, and Other Historical Studies by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

To his now fully-awakened senses Trevor easily read the story, as far as signs could tell it.
— from Twice Bought by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

As far as the eye reached, the scene was one of utter desolation.
— from At the Point of the Sword by Herbert Hayens

After this interview, Clifford lost no time in hurrying down to the Estill ranch to seek an interview with Mora; and after they had met, with all the demonstrations peculiar to lovers, he noticed a strange look of trouble on her face, and when he tenderly asked its cause, she faltered a moment, then bursting into tears, and hiding her face on his breast, she confessed that the suspense of awaiting her father's return had become at last unendurable, and she had told her mother all the particulars of their engagement, the discovery of the treasure, their subsequent use of a portion of it, and their well-founded belief that she was the daughter of Bruce and Ivarene Walraven.
— from A Fortune Hunter; Or, The Old Stone Corral: A Tale of the Santa Fe Trail by John Dunloe Carteret

We have used the article “the” before Horungerne, though not necessary, because, to English readers, the sound is better.
— from Tent life with English Gipsies in Norway by Hubert (Solicitor) Smith

Thither, under the grand masters of their orders, had come the Templars and the Hospitallers, whose discipline and knowledge of the East rendered them such potent allies.
— from The Boy Crusaders: A Story of the Days of Louis IX. by John G. (John George) Edgar

" The Examiner , reviewing the same book, declared it to be— "A very valuable, though rather heterogeneous book....
— from Annie Besant: An Autobiography by Annie Besant

At evening his extreme left, the First Corps, was at Marsh Creek, on the Emmetsburg road, while the extreme right, the Sixth Corps, was away off at Manchester.
— from Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Campaigns of the Civil War - VI by Abner Doubleday

Sandford chose the evening, rather to steal into the house privately, than by any appearance of parade, to suffer Lord Elmwood to be reminded of their arrival by the public prints, or by any other accident.
— from A Simple Story by Mrs. Inchbald