El renegado tembló de pies a cabeza al oír semejante saludo, y sacó del arado la reja de hierro como para defender su vida.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Davenant’s play, “The just Italian,” 1630, abuses both audiences and actors:— “There are the men in crowded heaps that throng To that adulterate stage, where not a tongue Of th’ untun’d kennel can a line repeat Of serious sense.”
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It stood on a knoll, round which a small stream made a beautiful bend and then wound its way through a long reach of soft meadow scenery.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

I would the milk Thy mother gave thee when thou suck'dst her breast Had been a little ratsbane for thy sake.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Being at dinner, he overthrows the salt, and, looking round the room, discovers that he is the thirteenth guest.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

I will, go further, and affirm, as an indisputable fact, that most of the women, in the circle of my observation, who have acted like rational creatures, or shown any vigour of intellect, have accidentally been allowed to run wild, as some of the elegant formers of the fair sex would insinuate.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

—You say that it was on Mount Helicon, Autobulus, that those conversations took place about Love, which you are now about to narrate to us at our request, as you either wrote them down, or at least remember them from frequently asking our father about them.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

[97] with Selene, the moon-goddess, in which character she is always represented as wearing on her forehead a glittering crescent, whilst a flowing veil, bespangled with stars, reaches to her feet, and a long robe completely envelops her.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

I showed myself willing, and bid him ask my mistress if I might go along with him a little way; she said yes, I might, but I was not a little refreshed with that news, that I had my liberty again.
— from Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary White Rowlandson

Then there was silence, and I softly recovered the little hole and looked round at Mr Frewen, who nodded and smiled.
— from Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea by George Manville Fenn

There are the Norfolks, the Denbighs, the Dormers, the Petres, the Staffords; there are such later accessions to Catholicism as the Marquis of Bute, whose change created such a sensation, and Lord Robert Montagu, who "went over" only last year.
— from Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

Wheeler, looking everywhere but at his questioner, hesitated; then stammered out a lame reply.
— from A Master of Deception by Richard Marsh

Then she broke into a little relieved laugh.
— from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber

Royalty payments must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax returns.
— from Early London: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman by Walter Besant

If I do that, and am lodged up two pair of stairs in a room at half a guinea a week, as I was when I lodged with Lord Townshend and Lord Buckingham in 1744 or 5, I will never utter an impatient word about le retour de mon sort, whatever injustice may have been done me.
— from George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life by George Augustus Selwyn

As if the slighted ghosts protested, there came a loud, reproachful wail out of space.
— from Everyman's Land by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

He frequently called on Buchmaier also, and heard with delight the solid views, albeit at times a little roughly worded, of the squire.
— from Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach

There had been some showers, no doubt, as there had often been before, but it was ridiculous to talk of anything like rain a month before its time.
— from Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The Spaniards did then repair to the mountains of that Island with their Negroes, where together they waged war for many years against all English forces sent against them, before at last retiring to live amongst their fellow Papists on Cuba.
— from Caribbee by Thomas Hoover