Far less uncultured than Jefferson's portrait would lead us to believe, related to very good families, although poor and a complete failure as a merchant, Patrick Henry had suddenly decided to enter the legal profession, and after borrowing a "Coke upon Littleton" and a [Pg 15] "Digest of the Virginia Acts", he had appeared after six weeks' preparation before the board of examiners.
— from Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard

Asleep, it seemed to be, all curled up like a rose on its mother's breast, and its pooty eyes tight shut.
— from Captain January by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Place in a warm bowl and cream until light and frothy; now add yolks of four eggs and beat well for ten minutes, then add Three cupfuls of flour, Four level teaspoonfuls baking powder, One cupful of milk, One teaspoonful of nutmeg.
— from Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions by Mary A. Wilson

Before I had added them up, I collapsed like a torn balloon and curled up like a codling worm that has sampled the arsenate.
— from In Pastures Green by Peter McArthur

“I shall make no charge against you except the conventional one of being a convict under license and failing to report.”
— from The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Edgar Wallace

Dropping to the ground in the brush and creeping up like a viper, he heard the couple.
— from The Hero of the People: A Historical Romance of Love, Liberty and Loyalty by Alexandre Dumas

Its government is regulated by laws sharply cut and defined for every emergency; they have their Blackstone, and Coke upon Lyttleton, and probably Mr. Wesley himself would be somewhat amazed to find such a framework of polity as the handbook of Methodist ecclesiastical law, in Edmund Grindrod's 'Compendium of the Laws and Regulations of Wesleyan Methodism.'
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIV July and October, 1871 by Various

Had she remained quiet at Kuching, her wounds would have healed quickly, for she was young and perfectly healthy; but all the moving into boats, and carrying up ladders and steps, had broken open the wounds, and it was a struggle of strength and youth against adverse circumstances.
— from Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak by Henriette McDougall

Or, if it had been, the night that came down and found them housed in a little old-world inn, with a shining river at its door and the hush and the odorous darkness of the country lanes about it, must of itself have supplied the omission; for when all the house was still and all the lights were out, he crept from his bed and curled up like a dog on the mat before Cleek's door, and would not have changed places with an emperor.
— from Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Thomas W. Hanshew

It gives to the Reich Cabinet”—Reichsregierung—“unlimited power; it even makes it its duty to build a completely unified leadership and administration of the Reich.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 4 by Various