Then the world turned suddenly upside down, the barge seemed to flit lightly across the sky, the wind whistled in his ears, and Toad found himself flying through the air, revolving rapidly as he went.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

When his night’s work was over, he received a rich reward, and his employer informed him that he had carried the dwarfs across the river, as they were leaving the country for ever in consequence of the unbelief of the people.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

He walked erect, and rather rapidly, and he was always alone, which made Pollyanna vaguely sorry for him.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

What a distracted City; men riding and running, reporting and hearsaying; the Hour clearly in travail,—child not to be named till born!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

t him in the figure and shape of a ram ramming, and horned ram.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

He is prematurely bald from selfabuse, perversely idealistic in consequence, a reformed rake, and has metal teeth.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

This was in her mind for years, and at the beginning of 1859 she engaged Corinthian Hall for Sunday evenings, her good friend, William A. Reynolds, as usual making her a reduced rate; and here Antoinette Brown Blackwell and Parker Pillsbury each preached for a month.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

He was the tenant, I found, of the old manor-house, which he held at a ridiculous rent, and he had lived here nearly forty years.
— from The Upton Letters by Arthur Christopher Benson

Grẻpp o , a crag, a broken clife, a rugged rocke, a hillock.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

The captain held his army regulation revolver at his hip.
— from Whispering Wires by Henry Leverage

Much that is told about Xerxes--how he cut off Mount Athos from the main-land by a canal; how he made a bridge of boats across the Hellespont, where it is three miles wide, and ordered the waters to be scourged because they destroyed the bridge; how he constructed new bridges, over which his vast army crossed the Hellespont as along a royal road; and how his army drank a whole river dry--all of which is gravely related by Herodotus as fact, is discredited by the Latin poet JUVENAL, who attributes these stories to the imaginations of "browsy poets."
— from Mosaics of Grecian History by Robert Pierpont Wilson

Then, too, there is always a rich reward at Hoylake for the man who can play his approaches really straight and with a firm, sure touch.
— from The Golf Courses of the British Isles by Bernard Darwin

She took them from him and lifted his face gently to look him straight in the eyes, for one long breath in which the sound of the twittering recorders came from the floor beneath; then the Countess Aiella rose a trifle unsteadily to her feet, and as Rodvard rose also, holding her in the circle of his arms, said; “Shall we kiss?”
— from The Blue Star by Fletcher Pratt

Whilst I seek the princes, the Milanese may exult over his corpse, and Rome, raising again her humbled head, topple down the edifice built up so laboriously!"
— from Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Conrad von Bolanden

So for five nights and days that angry rain raged and hammered upon the earth, and tore her with savage fury, growing fiercer as it went on[ 1 ]: till all at once, just as though the gates above had been suddenly shut, it stopped, as abruptly as it had begun, about five in the afternoon.
— from A Draught of the Blue, together with An Essence of the Dusk by F. W. (Francis William) Bain

He lived to a great age, recounting romances about his adventures.
— from The Mystery of Mary Stuart by Andrew Lang