So to my cozen Turner’s, and there staid talking a little, and then back to Suffolk Street, where they not being yet come home I to White Hall, and there hear that there are letters come from Sir Thomas Allen, that he hath made some kind of peace with Algiers; upon which the King and Duke of York, being to go out of town to-morrow, are met at my Lord Arlington’s: so I there, and by Mr. Wren was desired to stay to see if there were occasion for their speaking with me, which I did, walking without, with Charles Porter, [Charles Porter “was the son of a prebend[ary] in Norwich, and a ‘prentice boy in the city in the rebellious times.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

She meant it kindly, but Amy mistook her meaning, and said quickly,— "Oh, certainly, if they are in your way;" and sweeping her contributions into her apron, pell-mell, she walked off, feeling that herself and her works of art had been insulted past forgiveness.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

“Well, only for the sake of a lady,” said Hippolyte, laughing.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Thus he worked diligently on, until, in the spring of 1830, he was appointed to the artillery, and his energies were called into activity in such a different sphere, and to such a high degree, that he was obliged, for the moment at least, to give up all literary work.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

He alighted at the house of the fat cazique; as the servant whom Cortes had sent with him had no horse, he therefore walked on foot to Narvaez's quarters.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

After a moment’s thought he squeezed the bags with his hands, shifted his sword to the other side, and lay down with one foot touching the floor.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Under the Empire he was on friendly terms with his colleague, Theodore de Sommervieux.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

The grate had been removed from the wide overwhelming fireplace to make way for a fire of wood, in the midst of which was an enormous log glowing and blazing, and sending forth a vast volume of light and heat: this, I understood, was the Yule-clog, which the squire was particular in having brought in and illumined on a Christmas Eve, according to ancient custom.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Rounded seam .—Back-stitch your two edges together, as above directed, then cut off the inner edge to a width of four threads, and roll the outer one in, with the left thumb, till the raw edge is quite hidden, hemming as you roll.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, LXX.
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

The wildest of the fire was over, for the island was small, and the flames had swept it very thoroughly.
— from The Island of Yellow Sands: An Adventure and Mystery Story for Boys by Ethel C. (Ethel Claire) Brill

“That’s the colour for me to dye,” thought Jack, and braving the law, which would have laid him by the heels for breaking his writings, he ’listed in a foot regiment, and was off for the wars with a heart as light as the heels he showed his master.
— from Ben o' Bill's, the Luddite: A Yorkshire Tale by D. F. E. Sykes

It is interesting to note the contrast between the comparatively uneventful reality of Mary Beton's life and the romantic career assigned to her in one of the best-known works of fiction that introduces her in connection with her royal and ill-fated mistress.
— from In Byways of Scottish History by Louis A. Barbé

The doctor was on horseback, but standing a little way off from the steps.
— from The Gold of Chickaree by Susan Warner

At dark the plucky little Ford plods gallantly back to the home base, its occupants with faded garlands, whose make-up varies with the seasons—yellow chrysanthemums with purple everlasting tassels at Christmas time; in the dry, hot days of spring pink and white oleanders from the water channels among the hills; during the rains the heavy fragrance of jasmine.
— from Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India A Study of Conditions among Women in India by Alice B. (Alice Boucher) Van Doren

Thus this world wherein we now consciously live and which we perceive by means of our physical senses is preeminently [pg 068] the world of form , the Desire World is particularly the world of color and the World of Thought is the realm of tone .
— from The Rosicrucian Mysteries: An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings by Max Heindel

From the foregoing facts, nothing is clearer than that the colonies were obliged, from their earliest existence, to take care of themselves.
— from Great Events in the History of North and South America by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Goodrich

The eye specialist accepted and named a great surgeon who would operate for the price.
— from Dust of New York by Konrad Bercovici

Nay, I even went beyond the passive virtue of accepting my destiny—I actually studied, I made the acquaintance of the skeleton, I was on friendly terms with the muscular system, and the mysteries of Physiology dropped in on me in the kindest manner whenever they had an evening to spare.
— from A Rogue's Life by Wilkie Collins

On the fatal 9th of July, he had seen George go to the front with orders from the chief, to whose side he never returned.
— from The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray