They scarcely understood this at the moment, for things were transpiring so quickly that only seconds had elapsed since first Peters had approached.
— from Ruth Fielding In the Saddle; Or, College Girls in the Land of Gold by Alice B. Emerson

Without once striking the child, but by manifesting a firmness of purpose which it was hopeless to think of shaking, he established such an authority over him that Howard himself, on one occasion, said, that "if he told the boy to put his finger in the fire, he believed he would do it."
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, No. 411, January 1850 by Various

But Sh amsu’d-Ḍuḥá could not help herself: in spite of all the terrible ordeals she had endured, she ignored the danger, and was capable of flinging herself into flames, or into the sea.
— from Memorials of the Faithful by `Abdu'l-Bahá

The little girl was eager to visit the famous fairyland of Oz and the old sailor had endured such hardships in Jinxland that he would be glad to be out of it.
— from The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The only symptom he ever showed of imagination was castle-building; but his fabrications were founded on a more solid basis than is usually to be met with among the visions of day-dreamers.
— from Cornish Characters and Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Such was General Pershing when he set foot on foreign shore at the head of an American army—the first time in history that our soldiers had ever served on European soil.
— from Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers by J. Walker (Joseph Walker) McSpadden

The objects of Napoleon's hatred might still find an asylum at Vienna; the year she passed in that city, was therefore, the most tranquil one she had enjoyed since the commencement of her exile.
— from Ten Years' Exile Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son. by Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Staël

3: There is no need to draw the attention of the good angels, inasmuch as they always see each other in the Word; for as one ever sees the other, so he ever sees what is ordered to himself.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint