Still Rudolf, blushing fiery red, and not knowing what to say, continued to stare down at his toes.
— from The Wonderful Bed by Gertrude Knevels

The people were at their doors in the evening to talk over the rebellion of '45 when the rebels reached Derby, and even listened at intervals to fancy they heard the French rebels at Northampton, knocking it down with their cannon.
— from Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by John Clare

[37] No more, if as much, could be said of the terms upon which we stand with a tame chimpanzee, in spite of greater physical and facial resemblance and nearer kinship.
— from The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions by Carveth Read

The trim, neat, and graceful English grenadier; the careless and half-savage Highlander, with his flowing robes and naked knees, and the immovably stiff' German, could hardly be taken for parts of one army.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

He may be finally rejected and not know it, just as some men have been on probation and have not known it until they suddenly found themselves accepted.
— from Letters That Have Helped Me by Julia Wharton Lewis Campbell Ver Planck Keightley

Thus Venus losing Cupid on a day, (See that Idyllium Moschi ) seeking help, In the anxiety of motherhood, Allowably promised, "Who shall bring report Where he is wandered to, my wingèd babe, I give him for reward a nectared kiss; But who brings safely back the truant's self, His be a super-sweet makes kiss seem cold!"
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

So many neighbors, Bamberg, Wurzburg and the rest, were eager for retaliation; a new Kaiser greedy for confiscating.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle