The men-at-arms fell back, and up the aisle came leaping eighteen stout yeomen all clad in Lincoln green, with Allan a Dale at their head.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Many people might come in and converse, laugh, even sing; she would still be alone with a solitary smile, and she alone would give it life with her pictured gaze.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

There are all around many books, some quite handsome editions, some half cover'd by dust, some within reach, evidently used, (good-sized print, no type less than long primer,) some maps, the Bible, (the strong cheap edition of the English crown,) Homer, Shakspere, Walter Scott, Emerson, Ticknor's "Spanish Literature," John Carlyle's Dante, Felton's "Greece," George Sand's "Consuelo," avery choice little Epictetus, some novels, the latest foreign and American monthlies, quarterlies, and so on.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

*sayà 2 pa- v [A; c6] leave, expose s.t. carelessly for others to be able to see or touch it.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

When the drinks were brought and cigars lighted, Ed said: “Well, when I delivered the letter to Mr. Vanderbilt——” “Great Scott!”
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

It was not polished and clear like European steel, but dull, rough, and dead, full of a curious-looking grain, as if two or three different kinds of metal had been welded together, while up near the hilt there was a beautiful arabesque pattern in gold.
— from The Rajah of Dah by George Manville Fenn

"I should like," he said, taking up his cocktail glass, "to propose a truce between us—" "In the matter of a certain lady?" "Even so!
— from Rosalind at Red Gate by Meredith Nicholson

By RICHARD GARNETT, LL.D. Keeper of the Printed Books in the British Museum LONDON SEELEY AND CO. LIMITED, ESSEX STREET, STRAND NEW YORK, MACMILLAN AND CO.
— from William Blake, Painter and Poet by Richard Garnett

And thus ended the second edition of this authors extraordinary conduct towards the artist.” Cruikshank lays equal stress, in support of his pretensions, on the appearance (March 1842) of a drawing made by him, at Ainsworth’s suggestion, “of the ‘author’ and the ‘artist’ seated, in council, or conversing together in his library.”
— from The Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs, Vol. 1. (of 2) by Blanchard Jerrold

Hence, the unexampled loss of more than four thousand men, out of a corps little exceeding six, was sustained in this sanguinary battle by the British.
— from The Battles of the British Army Being a Popular Account of All the Principal Engagements During the Last Hundred Years by Robert Melvin Blackwood

“Oh, then, do forgive Fred, and let him be an artist!” cried Loo, eagerly stretching out one of her thin hands.
— from Fighting the Flames by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne