Upon this occasion, he sent his own share to a Roman knight, who was seated opposite to him, and was enjoying himself by eating heartily.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

The chief of the Dyaks suddenly turned and rushed, knife in hand, upon the man he beheld escaping from the hold.
— from As It Was in the Beginning by Philip Verrill Mighels

Thorgrim the Easterling went and began to climb up on the hall; Gunnar sees that a red kirtle passed before the windowslit, and thrusts out the bill, and smote him on the middle.
— from The Story of Burnt Njal: The Great Icelandic Tribune, Jurist, and Counsellor by Unknown

The praise bestowed on him for his pretended statistical, technological, and rural knowledge was a silent reprimand.
— from Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As my eyes grew used to the gloom inside, they saw this:— A rude kitchen—the furniture but two rickety chairs, now toss'd on their faces, an oak table, with legs sunk into the earth, a keg of strong waters, tilted over and draining upon the mud floor, a ladder leading up to a loft, and in two of the corners a few bundles of bracken strewn for bedding.
— from The Splendid Spur Being Memoirs of the Adventures of Mr. John Marvel, a Servant of His Late Majesty King Charles I, in the Years 1642-3 by Arthur Quiller-Couch

He seemed thoughtful, and Rose knew better than to interrupt him when he was thinking.
— from The Creators: A Comedy by May Sinclair

The prisoners of Vincennes, till of late years, were seldom tried, and rarely knew what their offence was.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 306 New Series, Saturday, November 10, 1849 by Various

Since the American "Reds" keep company with foreign rebels, it is not to be presumed that the latter are demons and the former saints.
— from The Red Conspiracy by Joseph J. Mereto

The story of the conquest (i.-xii.) is told by the prophetic document JE, while the geographical section on the distribution of the land (xiii.-xxii.) belongs in the main to the priestly document P. Joshua, in common with Judges, Samuel (in part) and Kings, has also been very plainly subjected to a redaction known to criticism as the Deuteronomic, because its phraseology and point of view are those of Deuteronomy.
— from Introduction to the Old Testament by John Edgar McFadyen

Even the astute little Zoya Olisco had confirmed the impression by saying that all Rome knew that Giovanni cared nothing for money.
— from The Title Market by Emily Post

“Still it becomes thee to pay: for it is not meet that a poor forester should treat a rich knight.
— from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock