As soon as the door of the compartment should be opened, the lady, now so quiet and humble, would scream and call for help.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

I remember the tender ambition which inspired me to win the encouraging sympathy of this sensitive woman, who was painfully wasting away amid the coarsest surroundings.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

For the first time in four weary years they felt that they were now nearing the time when they could return to their homes with their country saved.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

"I am a child of the court," said a pretty little girl at a children's party in Denmark; " my father is Groom of the Chambers, which is a very high office.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

This regiment had then been cooped up on their transport continuously since leaving San Francisco November 3d, previous, sixty-three days.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

They can sell old CDs through the board or buy from other members.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Again, let the right of choosing them be (as before the conversion of Kings) in the Church, for so it was in the time of the Apostles themselves (as hath been shewn already in this chapter); even so also the Right will be in the Civill Soveraign, Christian.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

18): "It is right that those who serve the interests of the Church should be rewarded."
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

But they did not force the pace, and when we had gone about five miles we overtook a light cart, which the corporal stopped, and placed me therein.
— from In the Russian Ranks: A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland by John Morse

The report of the cannon startled the absent man and caused him to remember the order.
— from The Water-Witch; Or, the Skimmer of the Seas: A Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

"You must not harp on that string, Sophie," said the Comte sternly.
— from The Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred Days by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

The child should be confined to the schoolroom but little and receive most of his training in wood and field.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

the ascending nature of this curve shows that the solubility of Fe 2 Cl 6 is increased by the presence of NH 4 Cl, while that of NH 4 Cl decreases in the presence of Fe 2 Cl 6 ), the portion BC to the double salt, and the portion CD to a mixture of sal-ammoniac and ferric chloride, while the straight line OF corresponds to the ratio Fe 2 Cl 6 ,4NH 4 Cl, or a : b :: 4 : 1.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

The vestals are corrected by stripes for any faults which they commit, sometimes by the Pontifex Maximus, who flogs the culprit without her clothes, but with a curtain drawn before her.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Now I couldn't find any openings in that large room except two little ventilators near the ceiling, so if that fire is going to burn, it must get air from this room."
— from Through the Wall by Cleveland Moffett