The footman was withdrawing, but Athos stopped him by a sign.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

The scout should first turn the patient on his face; he then steps astride his body, facing toward the patient's head, and, with hands under his arm-pits, lifts him to his knees; then, clasping hands over the abdomen, lifts him to his feet; he then, with his left hand, seizes the patient by the left wrist and draws his left arm around his (the bearer's) neck and holds it against his left chest, the patient's left side resting against his body, and supports him with his right arm about the waist.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Thus we talked till night and then parted, and so I to my office and did business, and so home to supper, and there find my sister Michell
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The car halted before a small house on the Glasnevin road and Mr Kernan was helped into the house.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

Say quickly what thou wouldst have of me, for there is but a short hour that we may tarry here." As the old withered woman spoke a smile glimmered on her countenance like lamplight on the wall of a sepulchre.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

He tasted the contents of the glass which Sam had placed in his hand, put his umbrella on the floor, and tasted it again, passing his hand placidly across his stomach twice or thrice; he then drank the whole at a breath, and smacking his lips, held out the tumbler for more.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Could the Carizmian empire have been saved by a single hero, it would have been saved by his son Gelaleddin, whose active valor repeatedly checked the Moguls in the career of victory.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The destruction of records and other types of documents would be a serious handicap to the enemy.
— from Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services

The party whose coming has thus briefly been related was composed of Halvor Haugen, wife, three sons, Peder, Halvor and Andreas, and two daughters Bergit and Sigrid; Halvor Stordok, Lars Haugerud, Gunder Fingalpladsen, Engebret Sæter, Lars Dalen, Gjermund Johnson, and Sven Tufte, all of whom also had families, besides some single persons.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

Victoria grew quite interested, regretted that Mrs. Brentham, born as she had been born, without the purple, and her husband not having pursued a British career, could not be brought to the dear Queen's notice....
— from The Man Who Did the Right Thing: A Romance by Harry Johnston

She had hesitated because of his future, for nothing else; and was she to stand by and see him ruin it for no just cause, since she was wealthy enough now for all his wants?
— from Red Rowans by Flora Annie Webster Steel

Her forefathers had plunged into the wilds with Daniel Boone; and she herself has been described as "one of those beautiful, graceful, and vivacious Kentucky girls who have contributed so much to the reputation of that fortunate State."
— from Famous Authors (Men) by E. F. (Edward Francis) Harkins

Steele , shaking hands first with Evelyn , then stepping back and shaking hands with Madge , speaks from L. of Madge near door .) Steele .
— from Green Stockings: A Comedy in Three Acts by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

But at once, like one hypnotized, Pauline Dessaulx, still keeping her eyes fixed on his face, slowly moved her right hand to a pocket, slowly drew out a little book, and slowly handed it to him.
— from The de Bercy Affair by Louis Tracy

He forced Colli to accept battle, utterly broke and scattered him, and Provera, thus abandoned, was obliged to yield at discretion.
— from The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

Her way home took her through Bulgaria, and she had received an intimation that Queen Eleanor of that country would be glad to receive her.
— from Secrets of the Bosphorus by Henry Morgenthau

Scipio's face grew grave at these words, and he asked with commanding brevity and sharpness: "Has your sister black hair and is she taller than you are, and did she wear a golden fillet in the procession?
— from The Sisters — Volume 1 by Georg Ebers

Few brothers and sisters, however, are willing to trust to time to work its wonders.
— from Life's Minor Collisions by Frances Lester Warner