The attitude is almost exactly the same as that of a tiger disturbed and growling over its food, which every one must have beheld in menageries.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

When she had calmed down and got over her first surprise Ivan Ivanitch asked to speak to her alone.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“They [meaning the Schurman Commission] had come,” says Mr. McKinley, in his annual message to Congress of December 5, 1899, 2 “with the hope of co-operating with Admiral Dewey and General Otis in establishing peace and order.”
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

The next day my aide, Colonel Dayton, received this characteristic dispatch: ALLATOONA, GEORGIA, October 6, 1884-2 P.M. Captain L. M. DAYTON, Aide-de-Camp: I am short a cheek-bone and an ear, but am able to whip all h—l yet!
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Twice now had she dined with Mrs. Fisher, and each time she had been difficult at the end to dislodge, lingering on slowly cracking innumerable nuts and slowly drinking a glass of wine that seemed as if it would never be finished.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

In both it is described as growing on the mountains, whence it is brought by birds; in both it is king of plants; in both a medicine bestowing long life and removing death.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Dare say you heard the carriage, sir, while you were at dinner; and going on now for Crewkherne, in his way to Bath and London.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

My master and my father sat together, and drank a glass or two of wine instead of tea, and Sir Simon joked with my master, saying, I warrant you would not be such a woman's man, as to drink tea, for ever so much, with the ladies.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

To conclude then, tho' the father's power of commanding extends no farther than the minority of his children, and to a degree only fit for the discipline and government of that age; and tho' that honour and respect, and all that which the Latins called piety, which they indispensably owe to their parents all their life-time, and in all estates, with all that support and defence is due to them, gives the father no power of governing, i.e. making laws and enacting penalties on his children; though by all this he has no dominion over the property or actions of his son: yet it is obvious to conceive how easy it was, in the first ages of the world, and in places still, where the thinness of people gives families leave to separate into unpossessed quarters, and they have room to remove or plant themselves in yet vacant habitations, for the father of the family to become the prince of it;* he had been a ruler from the beginning of the infancy of his children: and since without some government it would be hard for them to live together, it was likeliest it should, by the express or tacit consent of the children when they were grown up, be in the father, where it seemed without any change barely to continue; when indeed nothing more was required to it, than the permitting the father to exercise alone, in his family, that executive power of the law of nature, which every free man naturally hath, and by that permission resigning up to him a monarchical power, whilst they remained in it.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

“You think then, definitely, that Barker and Mrs. Douglas are guilty of the murder?”
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

Hardly beyond the stated number she was beside him again, ranging her steed for the victim log to dance a gyration on its branches across the lane and enter a field among the fallen compeers.
— from Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete by George Meredith

The next day, just as his Majesty mounted his horse to go to Doulevent, a general officer of the Austrians was brought to him, whose arrival caused a great sensation at headquarters, as it delayed the Emperor's departure for a few moments.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

And for drinking a glass of milk." "That lets me out.
— from Highacres by Jane Abbott

The real prerogatives that might formerly be exerted were sometimes of so injurious a nature, that we can hardly separate them from their abuse: a striking instance is that of purveyance, which will at once illustrate the definition above given of a prerogative, the limits within which it was to be exercised, and its [Pg 149] tendency to transgress them.
— from View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam

Running easily on its wheels, and thrust by a score of men, the tree will make a battering-ram that will, I promise thee, reduce the drawbridge and gates of Castle Ruthènes to splinters within the space of a few minutes."
— from Edgar the Ready: A Tale of the Third Edward's Reign by W. P. Shervill

So when Emmanuel saw that Mansoul was thus involved in sin, he calls his army together, since now also his words were despised, and gave out a commandment throughout all his host to be ready against the time appointed.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

She caught hold of the tip of one that was wedged into a crack, and tugged and tugged till I was afraid she would get discouraged and go off without it.
— from A-Birding on a Bronco by Florence Merriam Bailey

[Pg 564] Rev. Prince Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin, of Fathers Andrew White and Nerinckx, of Governor Leonard Calvert, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Commodore John Barry, the father of the American navy, and Judge Gaston; which were published in 1856 and 1857 in The Metropolitan of Baltimore.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

"I'm not going to admit anything," Lane said sturdily, after drinking another glass of wine.
— from The Mistress of Bonaventure by Harold Bindloss

Clotilde opened the door and got out stiffly.
— from Master Simon's Garden: A Story by Cornelia Meigs