Have a care you do not take those landmarks away which are, as it were, a divine and unshaken limitation of rights made by God himself, to last for ever; since this going beyond limits, and gaining ground upon others, is the occasion of wars and seditions; for those that remove boundaries are not far off an attempt to subvert the laws.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

In poetry, moreover, such adverbs are freely employed; as,—“The boy like a gray goshawk stared wild .”
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

You go to bed like a good girl and sleep it off.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

Sigvat sang thus concerning Erling:— "I know but one who can compare With Erling for broad lands and gear— Gudbrand is he, whose wide domains Are most like where some small king reigns.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

As a horse, stabled and fed, breaks loose and gallops gloriously over the plain to the place where he is wont to bathe in the fair-flowing river—he holds his head high, and his mane streams upon his shoulders as he exults in his strength and flies like the wind to the haunts and feeding ground of the mares—even so went forth Paris from high Pergamus, gleaming like sunlight in his armour, and he laughed aloud as he sped swiftly on his way.
— from The Iliad by Homer

And as a horse, stabled and full-fed, breaks loose and gallops gloriously over the plain to the place where he is wont to take his bath in the river—he tosses his head, and his mane streams over his shoulders as in all the pride of his strength he flies full speed to the pastures where the mares are feeding—even so Hector, when he heard what the god said, urged his horsemen on, and sped forward as fast as his limbs could take him.
— from The Iliad by Homer

When he was quiet, Mrs. Marvel said, "Don't distress me, dear Minnie; go to bed, like a good girl."
— from Joshua Marvel by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

They hadna sail'd a league, a league, A league but barely three, When the lift grew dark, and the wind blew loud, And gurly grew the sea.
— from Literature for Children by Orton Lowe

By Lascelles Abercrombie GEORGE GISSING By Frank Swinnerton WALT WHITMAN
— from Personality in Literature by R. A. (Rolfe Arnold) Scott-James

Eileen, fetch the bag, like a good girl, and bring the axe along.”
— from With Rifle and Bayonet: A Story of the Boer War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

These young people were seated round the roaring fire, and Holly, with her black locks and great glowing black eyes, was the centre of an animated group.
— from Hollyhock: A Spirit of Mischief by L. T. Meade

Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not: Like a high-born maiden In a palace tower, Soothing her love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet as love, which overflows her bower: Like a glowworm golden In a dell of dew, [Pg 103] Scattering unbeholden Its aerial hue Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view: Like a rose embower'd In its own green leaves, By warm winds deflower'd,
— from Vocal Expression: A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation by Katherine Jewell Everts

"Well, Oney, I will," said Margaret, and then both laughed a gleeful, girlish laugh of good-fellowship.
— from The Home at Greylock by E. (Elizabeth) Prentiss

Take the Word of God for your warrant; and for Christ's act of cautionary, howbeit body, life, and goods go for Christ your Lord, and though ye should lose the head for Him, yet "there shall not one hair of your head perish; in patience, therefore, possess your soul."
— from Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition) by Samuel Rutherford

Now, I want you to go to bed like a good girl."
— from Lydia of the Pines by Honoré Morrow

Karen tried to eat her breakfast like a good girl and the sound of the Wohltemperirtes Clavier seemed again to encircle and sustain her.
— from Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick