You must know, she yesterday wanted to steal a march of poor Liddy, and went to breakfast in the Room without any other companion than her dog, in expectation of meeting with the Baronet, who had agreed to dance with her in the evening—Chowder no sooner made his appearance in the Room, than the Master of the Ceremonies, incensed at his presumption, ran up to drive him away, and threatened him with his foot; but the other seemed to despise his authority, and displaying a formidable case of long, white, sharp teeth, kept the puny monarch at bay—While he stood under some trepidation, fronting his antagonist, and bawling to the waiter, Sir Ulic Mackilligut came to his assistance; and seeming ignorant of the connexion between this intruder and his mistress, gave the former such a kick in the jaws, as sent him howling to the door—Mrs Tabitha, incensed at this outrage, ran after him, squalling in a tone equally disagreeable; while the Baronet followed her on one side, making apologies for his mistake; and Derrick on the other, making remonstrances upon the rules and regulations of the place.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

It is this class which has absorbed the direction of municipal and local affairs, and which almost [ 256 ] alone of the Filipino population has shared in those benefits and opportunities which civilized life should bring.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

So, scorch'd with heat, along the desert score, The roaming lion meets a bristly boar, Fast by the spring; they both dispute the flood, With flaming eyes, and jaws besmear'd with blood; At length the sovereign savage wins the strife; And the torn boar resigns his thirst and life.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Then Captain Cocke coming to me to speak about my seeming discourtesy to him in the business of his hemp, I went to the office with him, and there discoursed it largely and I think to his satisfaction.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But now steps were heard at the door, steps so rapid that they could hardly be his mother’s.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

No one would have anything to do with a socialist traitor.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

“True, to see real acting, good hardened real acting; but I would hardly walk from this room to the next to look at the raw efforts of those who have not been bred to the trade: a set of gentlemen and ladies, who have all the disadvantages of education and decorum to struggle through.”
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

On it is written in his own hand, ‘To my angel Grushenka, if she will come,’ to which he added three days later, ‘for my little chicken.’
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

At noon dined at home, and my clerks with me, and thence I to White Hall, and there do hear how Sir W. Pen hath delivered in his answer; and the Lords have sent it down to the Commons, but they have not yet read it, nor taken notice of it, so as, I believe, they will by design defer it till they rise, that so he, by lying under an impeachment, may be prevented in his going to sea, which will vex him, and trouble the Duke of York.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

About 10 o’clock we, with a great deal of company, went down by our barge to Deptford, and there only went to see how forward Mr. Pett’s yacht is; and so all into the barge again, and so to Woolwich, on board the Rose-bush, Captain Brown’s’ ship, that is brother-in-law to Sir W. Batten, where we had a very fine dinner, dressed on shore, and great mirth and all things successfull; the first time I ever carried my wife a-ship-board, as also my boy Wayneman, who hath all this day been called young Pepys, as Sir W. Pen’s boy young Pen.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Abenadar then left Calvary, and went through the Valley of Gihon to the caves in the Valley of Hinnom, where the disciples were hidden, announced the death of our Lord to them, and then went to the town, in order to see Pilate.
— from The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Anna Katharina Emmerich

So to the man or woman who is at all interested in the uplift of his fellow man, can you think of any field where the labor of an evangelist is more needed than it is among the men we have attempted to describe to you? Stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong—1 Corinthians 16:13.
— from The Nation Behind Prison Bars by George L. (George Lewis) Herr

Now and then a native traveller, mounted on his high-peaked saddle, with a brace of silver-mounted pistols and a yataghan peeping from amid the folds of the shawl that binds his waist; his ample turban descending low upon his brow, and his yellow boots resting upon a pair of shovel stirrups; his velvet jacket slung at his back, and the long pendent sleeves of his striped 15 silk robe hanging to his bridle-rein, passes you by.
— from The City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Miss (Julia) Pardoe

I started with horror at the danger I had escaped, and looked forward with gloomy apprehension at those that still awaited me.
— from Frank Mildmay; Or, the Naval Officer by Frederick Marryat

This is a room with a big window high above the deck in the part of the ship called the house.
— from Ships at Work by Mary Elting

Malcolm Everett's engagement with General Fontaine had expired, and as was his original intention, he started for New York, first seeking an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Livingstone, of whom he asked their daughter Anna in marriage, at the same time announcing the startling fact that they had been engaged for more than a year.
— from 'Lena Rivers by Mary Jane Holmes

He had hardly opened his eyes the next morning when Lenhart, who had assumed the duties of valet, appeared, bearing a magnificent silver salver which he had borrowed from the landlord.
— from The Prussian Terror by Alexandre Dumas

He there remained a year, at the end of which he assumed the direction of the [82] opera at Carlsruhe.
— from The Violoncello and Its History by Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski

And that she had talked with him again the day Ann left, thinking he might have seen her.
— from The Visioning: A Novel by Susan Glaspell