Observing us, he came forward towards us, said a few kind words to me, and then went on again with the drilling of his men.
— from The Prose Tales of Alexander Pushkin by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

In the days of these kings, indicated by the ten toes of the image, swift destruction should come upon the kingdoms from on high; for the King of heaven should set up a kingdom indestructible and eternal, which should utterly supersede all former kingdoms.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

In November, 1806, Joseph Hamilton Daviess, United States attorney for Kentucky, brought at Frankfort an indictment against Burr for high treason; and Wednesday, December 2, was set for trial.
— from Crestlands: A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge by Mary Addams Bayne

A large heating surface is provided, so that large or heavy utensils such as fish kettles etc., are in no danger of being upset on account of being top heavy, as is the case when they are balanced on an ordinary gas ring.
— from The Labour-saving House by Peel, C. S., Mrs.

Doubtless, that tale seemed the most apt to kindle in poor Gilles some homicidal virtue: but you and I and God know that naught has passed between us save a few kisses and a trinket or so.
— from The Line of Love; Dizain des Mariages by James Branch Cabell

He was playing a part, and his true nature soon asserted itself, after seventy-nine of his people (men, women, and children) signed the compact with the Government of the United States at Fort King.
— from Famous Indian Chiefs Their Battles, Treaties, Sieges, and Struggles with the Whites for the Possession of America by Charles H. L. (Charles Haven Ladd) Johnston

On the other hand, the fact that the terra regis also was divided under Saxon and Frankish kings into manors probably was the natural result of the growing manorial management of the public lands under the fiscal officers of the Emperor during the later Empire, [p415] quickened or completed after the barbarian conquests.
— from The English Village Community Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition) by Frederic Seebohm

For Christ has given us scriptural authority for knowing Christians by their fruits.
— from Epistle Sermons, Vol. 2: Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by Martin Luther

However, some arrests took place, mere supernumeraries as usual, silly and frightened, knowing nothing.
— from Germinal by Émile Zola

Confused by the impact upon her perceptions of so much that was unexpected and bizarre, the girl looked round with an uncertain smile, and found Karslake watching her with a manner of peculiar gravity and concern.
— from Red Masquerade Being the Story of the Lone Wolf's Daughter by Louis Joseph Vance