Goblins that were bakers and butchers and grocers grinned and leered and jabbered from the corners of the room.
— from Mary, Mary by James Stephens

Although you have become a great gentleman, and live at a fine place inland, people haven't forgot when you kept a house and a counting-house too, in Hythe, and all that used to go on in those days; and though you are a magistrate, and go out hunting and shooting, and all that, the good folks about have little doubt that you have a hankering after the old trade yet, only that you do your business on a larger scale than you did then.
— from The Smuggler: A Tale. Volumes I-III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Be a good girl, and listen, and you will hear something about God.
— from Jessica's First Prayer; and, Jessica's Mother by Hesba Stretton

Before them Hector and Aineias and godlike Chromios shrank backward and gave ground and left Aretos wounded to the death as he lay.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Larry, Alan, Bob and General Gordon all laughed at this, for Bob’s hearty appetite and the warm color returning to his thin cheeks gave little cause for alarm.
— from Captain Lucy in the Home Sector by Aline Havard