She looked back at Sybil, and saying, “Hush, I shall be back directly,” she withdrew, shutting the door.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

He therefore stepped willingly and even cheerfully into the canoe, in which his and his comrades’ baggage had been already stowed, and, seating himself in the stern, took up the steering-paddle.
— from The Red Eric by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Then the little girl brought a stool, and seating herself in the old posture with her head in her nurse's lap, she drew her mother's miniature from her bosom, and fixing her eyes lovingly upon it, said, as she had done hundreds of times before: "Now, mammy, please tell me about my dear, dear mamma."
— from Elsie's Girlhood A Sequel to "Elsie Dinsmore" and "Elsie's Holidays at Roselands" by Martha Finley

But a spacious and sheltered harbour is now being provided, by means of piers running out from the shore five hundred yards north and south respectively of the screw pile pier now existing, so as to enclose a rectangular area of one thousand yards in length by eight hundred and thirty yards in width, or one hundred and seventy acres.
— from The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands by Anonymous

But, Arden," she added, seriously, "here is your way out of trouble, as well as mine.
— from What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe

I sends you five pounds; she may get wages first, for I know some of the gals, and the best on um, to, are not heavy we boxes; and supposing anything should happen, I would not like it to be said she come here in rags.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852 by Various

But let it be believed, as surely as spoken, he is still as full as ever.
— from The Jerusalem Sinner Saved; or, Good News for the Vilest of Men by John Bunyan

The real stages by which monotheism was evolved out of a preceding polytheism in a single small group of Semitic tribes have already been well investigated by Dutch and German scholars: all that I propose to do in the present volume is to reconsider the subject from our broader anthropological standpoint, and show how in the great Jewish god himself we may still discern, as in a glass, darkly, the vague but constant lineaments of an ancestral ghost-deity.
— from The Evolution of the Idea of God: An Inquiry Into the Origins of Religions by Grant Allen

This explained a great drumming and whining at the door of the little parlour, which had somewhat surprised Brown, though his kind landlady had only noticed it by fastening the bolt as soon as she heard it begin.
— from Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete by Walter Scott

Knowing the peaceful and more than timid habits of the churchwarden and bibliomaniac, and stupefied at seeing him in the midst of the tumult, within two yards of cavalry charges, almost in the midst of the musketry fire, bareheaded in the rain, and walking about among bullets, he accosted him, and the rebel of five-and-twenty and the octogenarian exchanged this dialogue:— "Monsieur Mabœuf, you had better go home."
— from Les Misérables, v. 4/5: The Idyll and the Epic by Victor Hugo

His family wished him to become a statesman and sent him in 1559 to the university at Copenhagen to prepare for that career.
— from The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe by Dorothy Stimson