Before I had time to make any remark, however, upon so singular a circumstance, he interrupted me with a second “ahem!”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

He awoke, roused himself up, shook himself and stretched his lazy limbs, and seeing the havoc the pigs had made with his stores he cursed the drove, and more besides.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

After a few minutes He again raised himself up suddenly, and gazed upon Matilda with all the wildness of despair.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

In England, either defiant or strangely obtuse to the values of their relation, he introduced Agnes to his family; but neither her beauty nor accomplishments redeemed her unhappy standing, and she was [95] made to suffer that social ignominy which is so absolutely blighting to a sensitive spirit.
— from Three Heroines of New England Romance Their true stories herein set forth by Mrs Harriet Spoffard, Miss Louise Imogen Guiney, and Miss Alice Brown by Alice Brown

Keble was the tutor and the loving and sympathetic friend of the bitter and contemptuous Froude, who “hated the Reformation,” and reserved his utmost scorn and antipathy for “irreverent Dissenters.”
— from Hurrell Froude: Memoranda and Comments by Louise Imogen Guiney

At these words of Amine, the porter was so much transported with joy, that he fell on his knees, kissed the ground at the feet of that charming person, and, raising himself up, says, Most beautiful lady, you began my good fortune to-day, and now you complete it by this generous action; I cannot enough testify my acknowledgment of it.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

They brushed off the sea moss and sea weeds and rubbed her until she awoke.
— from Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina by W. D. (William Drake) Westervelt

Then he who had loved her deeply once came to her and raised her up, saying: "My damsel, where are those who blame and accuse you?
— from Four Arthurian Romances by Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century

We found the poor fellow lying face downwards on the ground, and raising him up, saw that he was quite dead.
— from A Narrative of the Siege of Delhi With an Account of the Mutiny at Ferozepore in 1857 by Charles John Griffiths

As they approach, the rich sienna brown of the marlin and curlew seems to color the sky and reflect a ruddy hue upon surrounding objects; or the black and white of the barred wings of the willet makes them resemble birds hewn from veined marble.
— from Florida and the Game Water-Birds of the Atlantic Coast and the Lakes of the United States With a full account of the sporting along our sea-shores and inland waters, and remarks on breech-loaders and hammerless guns by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt