A racking uneasiness seized him and would not let him rest.
— from Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson

There was the worthy priest, mopping his forehead with a huge pocket-handkerchief and blowing like a rhinoceros. 'Ugh!' said he at length, 'I have been running up and down the roads this half-hour after you, and there's not a puff left in me.' 'Ah, father!
— from Jack Hinton: The Guardsman by Charles James Lever

We'll set up camp this afternoon and round up some horses,—Applehead always keeps a bunch running back here on the mesa,—and to-morrow morning we'll get to work.
— from The Phantom Herd by B. M. Bower

It would have taxed the strength even of a full-bodied man to have held together a reputation, under such handicaps as those beneath which Reed was working.
— from The Brentons by Anna Chapin Ray

“Oh, nothing,” responded the youth, and rose up, stretching his arms and yawning.
— from Wyn's Camping Days; Or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club by Amy Bell Marlowe

"That was a rum 'un! " said he, and he sat there a long time looking at it.
— from Weird Tales from Northern Seas by Jonas Lie

He had made up his mind that nothing less than a large and comprehensive difference between the two wings of the Republican party would be of any real use; so he arraigned the Administration, with great violence, as un-Republican and Federalistic.
— from A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 by De Alva Stanwood Alexander

* Balaam accordingly rose up, saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
— from The Doubts of Infidels Or, Queries Relative to Scriptural Inconsistencies & Contradictions by William Nicholson

In spite of many disadvantages, such as ill-health, a mean personal appearance, and a nervous temperament, without a ready utterance, Saul had a tolerable mastery of Greek, familiarity with the habits of different classes, and a profound knowledge of human nature.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02: Jewish Heroes and Prophets by John Lord