The bellowing of red deer comes from a neighbouring corrie, and a herd of roe are browsing on the confines of the scrub.
— from The Confessions of a Poacher by Watson, John, F.L.S.

By putting out his candles and omitting some of the ceremonies at his church whenever the bishop or rural dean came to visit it, he was able to retain his living.
— from Clara Maynard; Or, The True and the False: A Tale of the Times by William Henry Giles Kingston

, me no seed em; me buy one robe dress Christmas gone.
— from Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Mrs. Lanaghan

But who the bowl or rattling dice compares To basset's heavenly joys, and pleasing cares?
— from The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by Alexander Pope

A complete history of their commerce and navigation from the earliest times would unquestionably give [164] us views of the past quite as startling to the prevalent assuming, unreasoning habits of belief, or rather disbelief, concerning antiquity, as that hypothesis of Atlantis and the earliest civilization.
— from Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology by John D. (John Denison) Baldwin

The Corsair Dragutte, a buccaneer of romantic days, came along and plundered these Ligurian towns as often as he felt like it.
— from Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

"Don't loss it o' yer way back, onny road," Dixon charged him.
— from The Post-Girl by Edward Charles Booth

The hostler's unjointed legs, unstable because of recurrent debauchery, carried him disconsolately to lower levels.
— from Thoroughbreds by William Alexander Fraser

A dread foreboding shook the breast of Raoul de Canillac, as he was brought into that chamber, the scene of his outrageous cruelty to the lovely Marguerite in past years, and now to be the scene of its as cruel retribution.
— from The Knights of England, France, and Scotland by Henry William Herbert