The poor fellow, supposing that the provost was asking his name, broke the silence which he habitually preserved, and replied, in a harsh and guttural voice, “Quasimodo.”
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

But he came quite tipsy, and asked for three bottles again, and then he lifted up one leg, and began playing the pianoforte with one foot, and that is not at all right in an honourable house, and he ganz broke the piano, and it was very bad manners indeed
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Mr. Macmurdo had also occasion to take off his silk night-cap and rub it across his eyes.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

And this delight in being a lover, in living by love alone, of the reality of which he was inclined to be doubtful, the price which, in the long run, he must pay for it, as a dilettante in immaterial sensations, enhanced its value in his eyes—as one sees people who are doubtful whether the sight of the sea and the sound of its waves are really enjoyable, become convinced that they are, as also of the rare quality and absolute detachment of their own taste, when they have agreed to pay several pounds a day for a room in an hotel, from which that sight and that sound may be enjoyed.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Her electric apparatus remained inactive and her motionless screw left her to drift at the mercy of the currents.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

They, hearing this, were greatly rejoiced and repairing in all haste to the sea-shore, with a number of the villagers, took Cimon, together with Iphigenia and all his company, who had now landed and taken counsel together to flee into some neighbouring wood, and carried them to the village.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

It was when the inevitable climax had been reached between Weishaupt and Knigge that "Philo" wrote to "the most loving Cato" in the following terms: It is not Mahomed and A. who are so much to blame for my break with Spartacus, as the Jesuitical conduct of this man which has so often turned us against each other in order to rule despotically over men, who, if they have not perhaps such a rich imagination as himself, also do not possess so much cuteness and cunning, etc.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

When they met their spies, they were informed that Sigurd was at Re, in a house called Rafnnes, and had 500 men.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

The expediency of such a regulation is also highly questionable.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

He had opened his eyes widely, and had exclaimed “Impossible!” exposing himself thereby to the unanswerable retort of a finger-tip laid forcibly on the telegram which the Assistant Commissioner, after reading it aloud, had flung on the desk.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

[86] are required, in a hot climate, to enable the soldier to bear fatigue, and how necessary a regular diet is.
— from Medical Sketches of the Expedition to Egypt, from India by McGrigor, James, Sir

It follows, that the misguided people are rushing into a horrible and absurd struggle, in which victory would be more fatal than defeat, since, according to this supposition, the result would be the realization of universal evils, the destruction of every means of emancipation, the consummation of its own misery.
— from Sophisms of the Protectionists by Frédéric Bastiat

Yes, before us were white flags at regular intervals, and here and there a red one, from which the ever lengthening cavalcade in their gallop turned aside, and I heard the words “wheat,” “beans,” or “seeds” growled out by our leaders.
— from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906 by Various

Yes, our hunter affects coarse and snuffy clothes; they carry with them suggestions of hardship and roughing it; and his hat is umbrageous and old.
— from Twenty-One Days in India, or, the Tour Of Sir Ali Baba K.C.B.; and, the Teapot Series by George Aberigh-Mackay

His eyes opened and shut at regular intervals, and his cane kept a continual thump-thump on the floor.
— from Hawk's Nest; or, The Last of the Cahoonshees. A Tale of the Delaware Valley and Historical Romance of 1690. by James M. (James Martin) Allerton

Once, when the former was more than usually emphatic in his [Pg 272] denunciations, a tall pale man, with a Shakespeare forehead, rose suddenly, with a determined air, as if about to fiercely interrupt; but it turned out he only wanted to catch the waiter's eye, and this done, he pointed silently to his empty glass, and remarked, in a hoarse whisper, 'Without sugar, as before.'" COGERS' HALL Gunpowder Alley, a side-twig of Shoe Lane, leads us to the death-bed of an unhappy poet, poor Richard Lovelace, the Cavalier, who, dying here two years before the "blessed" Restoration, in a very mean lodging, was buried at the west end of St. Bride's Church.
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury

Abiboo returned in an hour with four prisoners, and they were very voluble—too voluble for the safety of M'Kovo and his younger brother, for by night Sanders had discovered a forest grave where Hikilari the wise chief lay.
— from Bosambo of the River by Edgar Wallace

But five others at the same instant came in sight, and fired and ran in at him, and knocked him down with their swords.
— from Ringan Gilhaize, or, The Covenanters by John Galt

Whereupon Konneman threw him a horse-cloth from the waggon, bidding him cover himself with it; so the carl snapped it up, and rolled it about his body with all alacrity.
— from Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 by Wilhelm Meinhold