Which said messengers, after their entering and coming into the presence of King Arthur, did to him their obeisance in making to him reverence, and said to him in this wise: The high and mighty Emperor Lucius sendeth to the King of Britain greeting, commanding thee to acknowledge him for thy lord, and to send him the truage due of this realm unto the Empire, which thy father and other to-fore thy precessors have paid as is of record, and thou as rebel not knowing him as thy sovereign, withholdest and retainest contrary to the statutes and decrees made by the noble and worthy Julius Cesar, conqueror of this realm, and first Emperor of Rome.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

An instant later I had come round the end of the hedge and my eyes lit upon Mrs. Douglas and the man Barker before they were aware of my presence.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

Heylin the son, intending to have a more elaborate Life of his father prefixed to his works, Dr. Barnard, from the high reverence in which he held the memory of his father-in-law, offered to contribute it.
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

If it upsets her nerves to hear about my experience last night, of course, I shall not talk about it to her, but trust me, please, to know what is best to do about that!”
— from Raspberry Jam by Carolyn Wells

As that country must be cold in consequence of its great altitude, the people would much sooner than in the hotter and more enervating lowlands, learn any lessons of industry they might be taught.
— from What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke

I opened up pretty freely to him, as you do to a man you never expect to see again, and when I found he was in that newspaper syndicate business I told him about my early literary ambitions—" "You can't say that I ever discouraged them, Basil," his wife put in.
— from A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete by William Dean Howells

The notes of a thrush, sounding exactly like that, with the help of a little imagination; and I rose, went to the window, gazed out, and there was the sun, looking like a great globe of orange, lighting up the mists in the hollows, and making everything look so glorious, that I began to feel a little better.
— from Burr Junior by George Manville Fenn

I led Henriette and Eugène by the hand, and Madame Ernest led her little son and daughter.
— from Le Cocu (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XVIII) by Paul de Kock

The old man gloomily added, that the savages would doubtless burn the houses over their heads, and massacre every living being within them, long before the two brave fellows would return with men.
— from Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

The matron lady always dresses ’em up real pretty, and curls their hair, and makes ’em look as pretty as they can look.
— from Dorothy Dale's Promise by Margaret Penrose