“‘We passed immediately beneath this continent, (swimming in between the legs of the cow), and, after some hours, found ourselves in a wonderful country indeed, which, I was informed by the man-animal, was his own native land, inhabited by things of his own species.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

“He’s old enough to——” and Alan struck his forefinger on the back part of his neck, meaning that I was old enough to lose my head.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

He, also, took overheed to what he was about, and so he fell into Will Scarlet's error.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

several times; and then again a sigh heaved from the heart of the sufferer.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

" He suddenly walked up to Aliokhin and shook him first by one hand and then by the other.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Pavel Ivanich looked very angry, and smote his forehead and gasped: "They ought to be shown up in the papers.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

God made him die shortly afterwards, and sent him from the kingdom of death to hell.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the forecastle.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The meads were changing now; but it was still warm enough in early afternoons before milking to idle there awhile, and the state of dairy-work at this time of year allowed a spare hour for idling.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

She had nothing to read or to look at, and she had folded her thin little black-gloved hands in her lap.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

" "Then it was she who told you about the candle in the window?" "My good man," replied Crevel, striking an attitude, "she has fooled us both.
— from Poor Relations by Honoré de Balzac

After the cry, an absolute silence had fallen.
— from Under Sail by Lincoln Colcord

Her children share the reverence and affection she has from husband and people.
— from Greek Women by Mitchell Carroll

Tothill Fields Asylum, a small home for some of the most hopeful of the discharged prisoners, was opened at Westminster.
— from Elizabeth Fry by Emma Raymond Pitman

When Mrs. Thorpe had told her husband (after receiving Valentine’s answer to her letter) that their runaway son was “in safe hands,” Mr. Thorpe never asked, as she had feared he would, “What hands?”
— from Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins

Then she stopped abruptly and stamped her foot.
— from The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert by Honoré Morrow

At sunrise, we ascended a small hill, from the summit of which I was astonished by a beautiful prospect: a majestic lofty chain of mountains extended along an enormous valley, and formed the boundary between Kurdistan and Mesopotamia.
— from A Woman's Journey Round the World From Vienna to Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia and Asia Minor by Ida Pfeiffer

Then all her natural childish passion was aroused, and stamping her foot, she declared wrathfully, "I'll not be friends with you any longer.
— from At the Little Brown House by Ruth Brown MacArthur

There Bithyas met me—Bithyas, you remember, was Gulussa's master of the horse—with two or three troopers and a spare horse for me.
— from Lords of the World: A story of the fall of Carthage and Corinth by Alfred John Church

In the old days antagonism and some hidden fear there was in his dislike of her, would have served to drive him away.
— from Deadlock: Pilgrimage, Volume 6 by Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson