Adam could not, but wept, Though not of Woman born; compassion quell'd His best of Man, and gave him up to tears A space, till firmer thoughts restraind excess, And scarce recovering words his plaint renew'd.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Adam could not, but wept, Though not of Woman born; compassion quell’d His best of Man, and gave him up to tears A space, till firmer thoughts restraind excess, And scarce recovering words his plaint renew’d.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

But he had not strength to resist Euphra, and so reform.
— from David Elginbrod by George MacDonald

Having thus ended his tale, Rogero entreated a similar return of courtesy from his companion, who replied, without disguise, that she was of the race of Clermont, and sister to Rinaldo, whose fame was perhaps known to him.
— from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

Having thus ended his tale, Rogero entreated a similar return of courtesy from his companion; who replied, without disguise, that she was of the race of Clermont, and sister to Rinaldo, the fame of whom was perhaps known to him.
— from The Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo

Mrs. Vickers, worn out by the fatigue and excitement of the day, retired to rest early; and Sylvia, refusing to speak to Frere, followed her mother.
— from For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke

There stood her missing hero, smiling on the people, dapper, swarthy, booted, spurred, and for one moment the man she had reason to remember, exactly as she remembered him.
— from Stingaree by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

It consisted of seven apartments of two rooms each, a sitting room and sleeping room; all the sitting rooms were on one side, opening out upon the one veranda, and the bedrooms were on the other side and opened out upon the other veranda.
— from Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe