I nudged Ange and showed her the clip.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Then, agitated as she had been by her mother's violence, and now by unaccustomed fears, she lay unable to sleep, starting at every sound.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

But he bemoans what the end of it may be, the King being ruled by these men, as he hath been all along since his coming; to the razing all the strong-holds in Scotland, and giving liberty to the Irish in Ireland, whom Cromwell had settled all in one corner; who are now able, and it is feared everyday a massacre again among them.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

CHAPTER XXXIX INTRODUCES SOME RESPECTABLE CHARACTERS WITH WHOM THE READER IS ALREADY ACQUAINTED, AND SHOWS HOW MONKS AND THE JEW LAID THEIR WORTHY HEADS
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

He smiled with delight as he approached and shook hands with Arkady.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Having uttered which ejaculations, the gentleman advanced, and shook hands with Ralph, with great warmth.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Roxana had heard that phrase somewhere, the fine sound of it had pleased her ear, and as she had supposed it was a name, she loaded it on to her darling.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

The old church of remote architecture, with its low, massive portal; its Gothic tower; its windows rich with tracery and painted glass, in scrupulous preservation; its stately monuments of warriors and worthies of the olden time, ancestors of the present lords of the soil; its tombstones, recording successive generations of sturdy yeomanry, whose progeny still plough the same fields, and kneel at the same altar;—the parsonage, a quaint irregular pile, partly antiquated, but repaired and altered in the tastes of various ages and occupants;—the stile and foot-path leading from the churchyard, across pleasant fields, and along shady hedgerows, according to an immemorial right of way;—the neighboring village, with its venerable cottages, its public green sheltered by trees, under which the forefathers of the present race have sported;—the antique family mansion, standing apart in some little rural domain, but looking down with a protecting air on the surrounding scene; all these common features of English landscape evince a calm and settled security, a hereditary transmission of homebred virtues and local attachments, that speak deeply and touchingly for the moral character of the nation.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

As a soldier he pictured himself as an inspector, passing before a long line of men who stood at attention.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

When the British burned Kingston he prorogued the legislature to Poughkeepsie, which still served as a 'safe harbor.'
— from The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention by Wallace Bruce

She is dressed all in armor, and she has a spear and a shield which gleams and glistens like a beacon-light for an army.
— from The Wagner Story Book: Firelight Tales of the Great Music Dramas by William Henry Frost

"'Tain't just what you'd call an agreeable subject," he answered, with the sinister humor of the frontiersman who has learned to make a crony of death.
— from Judith of the Plains by Marie Manning

CRINGLE, ancet , a small hole made in the bolt-rope of a sail, by inter-twisting one of the divisions of a rope, called a strand , alternately round itself and through the strands of the bolt-rope, till it becomes three-fold, and assumes the shape of a wreath or ring.
— from An Universal Dictionary of the Marine Or, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship. Illustrated With Variety of Original Designs of Shipping, in Different Situations; Together With Separate Views of Their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging. to Which Is Annexed, a Translation of the French Sea-terms and Phrases, Collected from the Works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, &c. by William Falconer

She and Peter would be all in all to each other as Peter himself had suggested, and as she had once dreamed her son would be to his mother; though, of course, it was not to be expected that a boy could understand everything, like John.
— from Peter's Mother by De La Pasture, Henry, Mrs.

This manoeuvre was long; we should have come to the wind, as soon as they cried, "a man overboard," it is true that somebody cried aloud from the poop, that he was saved; and a sailor had indeed caught him by the arm, but he had been obliged to let him go, because he would have been pulled overboard himself: a boat was however let down; it was a six-oared barge in which there were only three men: it was all in vain; and after having looked for some time, the boat came on board again without having found even the buoy.
— from Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 Undertaken by Order of the French Government, Comprising an Account of the Shipwreck of the Medusa, the Sufferings of the Crew, and the Various Occurrences on Board the Raft, in the Desert of Zaara, at St. Louis, and at the Camp of Daccard. to Which Are Subjoined Observations Respecting the Agriculture of the Western Coast of Africa, from Cape Blanco to the Mouth of the Gambia. by Alexandre Corréard

'Thou hast received my letter in time, and thy father is saved!'-- 'Would to God it were so!' cried Georgina, with a sorrow so deep that it left no room in her heart for joy at again seeing her lover.
— from Tales from the German. Volume I. by C. F. van der (Carl Franz) Velde

She had little respect of persons and always spoke her mind.
— from Wives of the Prime Ministers, 1844-1906 by Lucy Masterman

Child-bearing, hard work, and constant anxiety were beginning to tell on Mrs. Athelny; and sometimes her back ached in the evening so that she had to sit down and rest herself.
— from Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

She is arrayed in a highly-coloured striped dress, which is not of a length that would be accepted at the West-end, for it reaches only to the ankles, and shows her feet encased in a clumsy pair of boots.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 01, No. 05, May 1891 An Illustrated Monthly by Various