Having started for the coast with a large gang of slaves a short time before Marizano, as we have already said, and having left the Englishmen to the care of the half-caste, chiefly because he did not desire their company, although he had no objection to the ransom, Yoosoof proceeded over the same track which we have already described in part, leaving a bloody trail behind him.
— from Black Ivory by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

'But he is the reverse of immoral: and I intend to read you parts of the letter to prove to you that he is not the man you would blame, but I, and that if ever I am worthier . . . worthier of you, as I hope to become, it will be owing to this admirable and good old man.'
— from Beauchamp's Career — Volume 4 by George Meredith

Is it possible to read your Proposals of the benefits of a Free State without reflecting upon your tutor's 'All this will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me'?
— from The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time by David Masson

“Could you see to read your paper out there, with only that little shed window?
— from The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

As it is, I cannot tell my desires; and yet I want but little here below and I don't want anything up above—" [Pg 35] "You don't mean to renounce your part of the world to come?"
— from Discourses of Keidansky by Bernard G. Richards

Our opinion of Golden Days is very plain and straight as follows: It is one of the purest publications to be found in the hands of the reading young people of the present day.
— from Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 by Various

you were no longer able 1165 To raise your posse of the rabble: One single red-coat centinel Out-charm'd the magick of the spell; And, with his squirt-fire, could disperse Whole troops with chapter rais'd and verse.
— from Hudibras, in Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars by Samuel Butler

“The commandant has sent me, Burgomaster, to request your presence on the north-western rampart, where he, with several officers, is waiting your arrival.
— from The Lily of Leyden by William Henry Giles Kingston

On reaching Bulawayo, however, I found that, although the impis which for the last ten days had been encamped along the Umguza in the immediate neighbourhood of the town had now moved some miles farther down the river, yet parties of them were still hanging about ready to murder any defenceless persons that they might be able to surprise, even on the very outskirts of the town, as was sufficiently proved by the fact that on the very morning of my arrival, that is on Tuesday, 28th April, several coolies had been murdered in their vegetable gardens just beyond the native location.
— from Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia Being a Narrative of Events in Matabeleland Both Before and During the Recent Native Insurrection Up to the Date of the Disbandment of the Bulawayo Field Force by Frederick Courteney Selous