After this solemnity and these festivals were over, Herod erected another city in the plain called Capharsaba, where he chose out a fit place, both for plenty of water and goodness of soil, and proper for the production of what was there planted, where a river encompassed the city itself, and a grove of the best trees for magnitude was round about it: this he named Antipatris, from his father Antipater.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

His signal was returned, and in two hours afterwards the new-comer lay at anchor beside the yacht.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The other hesitated a while, tempted on one hand by the game and the thought of brandy, knowing well that, if he went to Paumelle's, he would return home drunk; held back, on the other hand, by the idea of his wife remaining alone in the house.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

When supper was over, we rose, and I took her between my arms, laughing, and caressing her in a manner which seemed too suggestive to the lover, who tried to pull me away.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I will return again into the house and desire some conduct of the lady.
— from Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare

June went out early, and wandered restlessly about in the heat.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

According [ 242 ] to some versions, the mulukwausi , that is, the witch in her flying state, moves about naked, leaving her skirt round the body, which remains asleep in the hut.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

"We have done all this under the most discouraging circumstances, and in the face of measures most distasteful to us and injurious to the interests we represent, and in the hearing of doctrines avowed by those who claim to be your friends, must be abhorrent to us and our constituents.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

The windows stood wide open; it was afternoon; from without one heard the rattling of carriages which rolled along in the heart of the city.
— from Asbeïn: From the Life of a Virtuoso by Ossip Schubin

Speaking sharply and autocratically in the Russian tongue, that worthy realized almost immediately that he had failed to make himself understood and so called the Herr Director to his aid.
— from Aladdin of London; Or, Lodestar by Max Pemberton

At the close— "I made that," said he to a youth who rose As if to hear: 't was Palma through the band Conducted him in silence by her hand.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

"On the following day we received an intimation that His Majesty would receive us on Sunday morning, the 7th instant.
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 2 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady

Shout on bright children, for your innocent mirth will rise as incense to Him who was even as one of you.
— from Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 by Various

With these golden projects before me, I again set to work, and, in less than a month, the MS. was ready and in the hands of a publisher.
— from The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp by W. H. (William Henry) Davies

One day as Bob was rummaging about in the hold, and Mark was looking on, that being the coolest place on the whole reef, the former got hold of a piece of wood, and began to tug at it to draw it out from among a pile that lay in a dark corner.
— from The Crater; Or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the Pacific by James Fenimore Cooper

These measures are varied by many combinations, and sometimes by double endings, either with or without rhyme, as in the heroick measure.
— from A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson