It is noon, and we and all the people have been waiting patient for many an hour, and the rumour has run round
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

The letter was published for the information of the friends of George, and Captain Low added, that he left him at Manilia to go to Oahu, and he had heard nothing of him since.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

She will be given as a prize to the one who catches her, but she has the right, besides urging on her horse to the utmost, to use her whip, often with no mean force, to keep off those lovers who are unwelcome to her, and she will probably favour the one whom she has already chosen in her heart.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

We made much of Caddy, and Peepy too; and Caddy brightened exceedingly; and my guardian was as merry as we were; and we were all very happy indeed until Caddy went home at night in a hackney-coach, with Peepy fast asleep, but holding tight to the windmill.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Mr. Branghton was very angry, and scolded them violently: however, we were obliged to descend, and stools were procured for us in the shop, where we found the brother, who was highly delighted, he said, that his sisters had been catched; and he thought proper to entertain me with a long account of their tediousness, and the many quarrels they all had together.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

London only stimulates, it cannot sustain; and Margaret, hurrying over its surface for a house without knowing what sort of a house she wanted, was paying for many a thrilling sensation in the past.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Asaad says, that wherever he goes, and to whomsoever he addresses himself on the subject of religion, people say, "Ah, it is very well for you to go about and talk in this manner: you have, no doubt, been well paid for it all."
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

At Trapezus they gave us a market, and we paid for our provisions at a fair market price.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

Lo, here in one line is his name twice writ: 'Poor forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus, To the sweet Julia.'
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“Evidently he has been dashed against a rock and stunned, if not worse,” he continued, pointing to a very ugly jagged wound in the right temple, from which the blood was welling pretty freely.
— from Two Gallant Sons of Devon: A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess by Harry Collingwood

From my previous visits and observations the lay of the land was perfectly familiar to me.
— from The Spanish Galleon Being an account of a search for sunken treasure in the Caribbean Sea. by Charles Sumner Seeley

The serf, as has been shown, [22] might not leave the manor in which he was born, he might not sell his holdings of land, and, finally, he had to give up a large part of his time to work without pay for the lord of the manor.
— from Early European History by Hutton Webster

At a time when war, party feuds, and the unlawful seizure of property brought misery into the land, the Tertiaries, united by solemn vows to keep the commandments of God, to be reconciled to their enemies, and 61 to restore what was not rightfully theirs, became a power which had to be reckoned with.
— from The Story of Assisi by Lina Duff Gordon

45 CHICKEN BREASTS SAUTÉS (Petti di pollo alla sauté) Cut the breast of a fowl in very thin slices, give them the best possible shape and make a whole piece from the little pieces that will remain, cleaning well the breast-bone, crushing and mixing these.
— from The Italian Cook Book The Art of Eating Well; Practical Recipes of the Italian Cuisine, Pastries, Sweets, Frozen Delicacies, and Syrups by Maria Gentile

Stephen W. Dorsey at that time knew that that man in the then state of public excitement was powerful for mischief.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

I have admitted, and indeed insist upon it, that the oldest reading of all is the very thing we are in search of: for that must of necessity be what proceeded from the pen of the sacred writer himself.
— from The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon

We pressed forward to the breastworks, but were unable to carry the line.
— from A Boy Trooper with Sheridan by Stanton P. Allen

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— from Philosophies by Ross, Ronald, Sir