2. When Jacob had made these appointments all the day, and night came on, he moved on with his company; and, as they were gone over a certain river called Jabboc, Jacob was left behind; and meeting with an angel, he wrestled with him, the angel beginning the struggle: but he prevailed over the angel, who used a voice, and spake to him in words, exhorting him to be pleased with what had happened to him, and not to suppose that his victory was a small one, but that he had overcome a divine angel, and to esteem the victory as a sign of great blessings that should come to him, and that his offspring should never fall, and that no man should be too hard for his power.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

When night came the Sultan called his vizir, and said to him, "I have resolved to clear up this mystery.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

," said Van Alen shortly, "the honor is too great.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

But when we come to adapt and apply it, how many faces it shows us, what varying aspects, so that he is fortunate who is able to catch and hold a single fleeting expression.
— from Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography by Henry Watterson

A cheerful fire blazed in welcome; but just now all things were somber to her vision, and she threw herself into a chair and covered her face with her hands.
— from Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

Auguste longed for it; his neighbors dozed, the salesmen did likewise, and he moved his knees forward, trying by that means to establish an understanding with his vis-à-vis, and saying to himself: “If she is unfortunate, I must try to comfort her.
— from The Milkmaid of Montfermeil (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XX) by Paul de Kock

And the whole vast audience seemed to hold its breath.
— from The Coryston Family A Novel by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Even in his lifetime many of his enemies as of his friends were of opinion that he intended to have himself expressly nominated king of Rome; several indeed of his most vehement adherents suggested to him in different ways and at different times that he should assume the crown; most strikingly of all, Marcus Antonius, when he as consul offered the diadem to Caesar before all the people (15 Feb. 710).
— from The History of Rome, Book V The Establishment of the Military Monarchy by Theodor Mommsen