At last he came, slowly and stumblingly ascending the stairs, supported by Grimsby and Hattersley, who neither of them walked quite steadily themselves, but were both laughing and joking at him, and making noise enough for all the servants to hear.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Fortunately, also, by liberal and judicious foraging, we reached the sea-coast abundantly supplied with forage and provisions, needing nothing on arrival except bread.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

“Oh! oh!” said he; “here’s a fellow who has been leading a jolly life, to-day.”
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

[176] of Quiroga’s bazaar, laughing and joking with other friars who must have been inside in joyous conversation, for their merry voices and sonorous laughter could be heard.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Bay Lodge and Joe Stickney had given birth to the wholly new and original party of Conservative Christian Anarchists, to restore true poetry under the inspiration of the "Götterdämmerung." Such a party saw no inspiration in Baireuth, where landscape, history, and audience were--relatively--stodgy, and where the only emotion was a musical dilettantism that the master had abhorred.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

And how this little house, consecrated aforetime by love and joy, had been re-consecrated for her by her happiness and sorrow!
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

and he brings light and joy in a poor feller’s soul,—makes all peace; and I ’s so happy, and loves everybody, and feels willin’ jest to be the Lord’s, and have the Lord’s will done, and be put jest where the Lord wants to put me.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

One would not have thought that Romulus would have flown into such a passion during a grave deliberation on matters of state; while Theseus was misled, in his treatment of his son, by love and jealousy and a woman's slander, influences which few men are able to withstand.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

We must not let ourselves be led away: "judge not!"
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A lot of fine mats covered the deck space within the transparent shelter devised by Lingard and Jorgenson to make Mrs. Travers' existence possible during the time when the fate of the two men, and indeed probably of everybody else on board the Emma, had to hang in the balance.
— from The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows by Joseph Conrad

From somewhere near by, possibly the shelter of some bushes, came gurgles of boyish laughter, and jeering words in assumed voices.
— from The Banner Boy Scouts; or, The Struggle for Leadership by George A. Warren

"At three and a quarter P. M. , ship going two and a half knots per hour, the cook lost his bucket over-board—jolly boat lowered, and Jack and Peter rowed after it."
— from The South-West, by a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

What, then, were they doing to let all these letters of Keats and Shelley, Burns and Byron, Lamb and Johnson—to name for the moment nothing else—find their resting-place in America?
— from Roving East and Roving West by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

If any individual don't beleeve what I say, let him buck agin Mr. M., and he will diskiver that the product of his experience will "Bite like a Jersey skeeter, and sting like one of Recorder HACKETT'S sentences."
— from Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870 by Various

The great change that took place in the reign of Henry VI., by passing bills complete in their form through the two houses instead of petitions, while it rendered manifest to every eye that distinction between legislative and judicial proceedings which the simplicity of 380 older times had half concealed, did not affect this constitutional principle.
— from Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 2 of 3 by Henry Hallam

BECKE, LOUIS, and JEFFERY, WALTER, Naval Pioneers of Australia.
— from Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia by Scott, Ernest, Sir

He “superædificavit” the church of San Isidoro, and, from the reference to his saintly life, one is inclined to suspect that he must have been a priest and probably a monk; if so, it is important to note the fact, inasmuch as almost all the other architects or masters of the works referred to in all books I have examined, seem to have been laymen, and just as much a distinct class as architects at the present day are.
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street

We are called upon to admire upon both sides the devotion of forgotten thousands, and to admire upon the side of the South the brilliant and daring operations by which in so many battles Lee and Jackson defeated superior forces.
— from Abraham Lincoln by Charnwood, Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron