I could hardly tell what consequences might not follow any want of caution on my part, and could think at first of no safer plan than questioning him carefully before I committed myself either one way or the other.
— from The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins

But the correspondence of Mr. Perry, as communicated to the Senate, shows more plainly than the confession of the Secretary how completely the usurper was maintained in power by the strong arm of the United States.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 19 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Out of this chaos of mingled purposes and casualties the ancient poets, according to the laws which custom had prescribed, selected some the crimes of men, and some their absurdities; some the momentous vicissitudes of life, and some the lighter occurrences; some the terrours of distress and some the gaieties of prosperity.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson

As it was, attracted by the sound of my own name, I turned from contemplation of my person and, coming to the window, leaned out again.
— from Peregrine's Progress by Jeffery Farnol

Immediately after that letter, dated 21st June, are the following remarks:— "On Saturday, the 22d of June, General Hamilton for the first time called on Mr. Pendleton, and communicated to him the preceding correspondence.
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr

I thought I would pay a particular compliment to my English hostess on that occasion by choosing a song the words of which were written by England's Poet Laureate, so I provided myself with the lovely setting of Tears, Idle Tears ; music written by an American, W. H. Cook by name, who besides being a composer of music possessed a charming tenor voice.
— from Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg

He had on a hat which had seen salt water, and a coat of many pieces and colors, though it was mainly the color of the beach, as if it had been sanded.
— from Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau

"But fairest of all appeared the garden upon the great square in front of the palace, consisting of metal plants and crystal trees, hung with varied jewel-blossoms and fruits.
— from Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Novalis

It must be admitted, on reading the foregoing descriptions gleaned from Sahagun's Historia, that it would be impossible to carry out, more perfectly and completely, the idea that Montezuma was the earthly representative of the Upper regions, the blue heaven.
— from The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems by Zelia Nuttall