6 The last news which I hear from Edinburgh is, that the gentleman who fills the situation of Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 7 is the best amateur draftsman in that kingdom, and that much is expected from his skill and zeal in delineating those specimens of national antiquity, which are either mouldering under the slow touch of time, or swept away by modern taste, with the same besom of destruction which John Knox used at the Reformation.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

A moment later, the grave and learned Robert Mistricolle, the king’s protonotary, passed, with an enormous missal under one arm and his wife on the other (Damoiselle Guillemette la Mairesse), having thus by his side his two regulators,—spiritual and temporal.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

The Sister ran up crying, "Brother, do not, pray do not drink, or you will become a wolf and eat me up!"
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

She often found me increasing the energy of my grip, and holding her clothing, lest something should come out of the woods and eat me up.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

During the first three or four months, my speeches were almost exclusively made up of narrations of my own personal experience as a slave.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

It was an ensign made up of four squares or blocks of different colours, the colours of the respective battalions of the command.
— from Khartoum Campaign, 1898; or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh

What was really of value was the library; but this he had left to the Eremo of Camaldoli, from whence it originally came, as, at the time of the suppression of convents, he had taken it to save it from the thieving hands of the governors and partisans of Napoleon I. In order to understand how my uncle was able to save a great part of the books and precious manuscripts belonging to the library at Camaldoli, it is enough to [32] know that he was one of the fathers of that hermitage, and when at the suppression they were all expelled, my uncle became a priest, and was made provost of San Piero di Bagno, where he remained until his death.
— from Thoughts on Art and Autobiographical Memoirs of Giovanni Duprè by Giovanni Duprè

I wished to hear Mr. Douglas, not because I expected to hear anything new, for I had studied well his speeches and knew his views upon the subjects about which he was to talk, but I wished to study his method and manner, for I knew he was an experienced man upon the platform.
— from Autobiography of Charles Clinton Nourse Prepared for use of Members of the Family by Charles Clinton Nourse

The tutor was an exceptional man, used to dealing with exceptional boys, and Ahmed did very well with him.
— from The Sheik: A Novel by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull

"No," Blondie replied solemnly, "but once when I was a waiter at 'El Monico,' up in Chihuahua, he hit me in the face!" "Give Camilla the roan mare," Demetrio ordered Pancracio, who was already saddling the horses.
— from The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution by Mariano Azuela

They won't want an extra mouth up there, so you'd better turn back.
— from The Grizzly King: A Romance of the Wild by James Oliver Curwood

The wind moderated a little in the evening, and we again embarked, making up for lost time by travelling till midnight, when we put ashore and went to sleep without making a fire or taking any supper.
— from Hudson Bay by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

echoed Dulcie lackadaisically, sinking into the basket-chair with an even more used-up air than her chum.
— from The School by the Sea by Angela Brazil

Still it was an excellent move upon the part of the Germans.
— from Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot