Two half-grown boys and a girl stood holding oilcloth bundles, and a little girl clung to her mother’s skirts.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

The draperies and fluttering things which she wore suited her rich, luxuriant beauty as a greater severity of line could not have done.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

Oronte, the father of Bradamante, is a Prince (acted by Afferi, a good singer, a baritone).
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Then up spake Will Scarlet, "Let us give him a golden chain to hang about his neck, such as befits one of his blood, and also golden spurs to wear at his heels.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

v [A; a] hunt with bow and arrow, go spear fishing.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

" Frank, Beth, Amy, and Grace sat down to watch the game played by the other eight.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

He was perhaps forty-five years old, very bald and already growing stout.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Then there would be a company of halberdiers that went by at a great swinging stride to quell some riot (I heard one say) in Southwark by the Bear-garden.
— from Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Arthur Frederick Wallis

THE Truth is, these Physicians had engaged themselves in an Hypothesis, that the Plague was bred at Marseilles by a long Use of bad Aliment, and grew so fond of their Opinion, as not to be moved by the most convincing Evidence.
— from A Discourse on the Plague by Richard Mead

When the mother returned there were but five babies and a great spider-like creature, which she immediately sprang to attack only to be met by powerful chelae which seized and held her so that she could not move.
— from The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

But the answer to this protest came in little jeering laughs and quick remonstrance from those who feared that the whetting of their appetites should be snatched from them, and a sigh of satisfaction went up when, from the shadows, there sprang an Arabian youth, beautiful as a god, supple as a snake, quick upon his feet as any fighting stallion.
— from The Hawk of Egypt by Joan Conquest

“I was looking at the furnace and thinking that must be touched up a bit, and a good supply of wood and charcoal carried to it.
— from The Young Castellan: A Tale of the English Civil War by George Manville Fenn

“What wouldst thou do an’ thou hadst a bow and arrows, Guilford?” said John.
— from Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt

She was particularly aware of this fact at the moment, for the party was understood to be awaiting a great stake.
— from Ladies Must Live by Alice Duer Miller