Above the noise of the water, as it swirled round the elephant’s legs, Little Toomai could hear more splashing and some trumpeting both upstream and down—great grunts and angry snortings, and all the mist about him seemed to be full of rolling, wavy shadows.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

" when the people had burst up against all manner of Chimeras,—I find a natural historical sequence.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

I dined with my wife in her chamber, she in bed, and then down again and till 11 at night, and broke up and to bed with great content, but could not make an end of writing over my vows as I purposed, but I am agreed in every thing how to order myself for the year to come, which I trust in God will be much for my good.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Exceedingly red-eyed and grim, as if he had been up all night at a party which had taken anything but a convivial turn, Jerry Cruncher worried his breakfast rather than ate it, growling over it like any four-footed inmate of a menagerie.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

It was in 1722, resettled by the French , who have a Fort at another neighbouring Island, called Don Mascarine , and are touched at for Water, Wood, and Refreshments, by French Ships bound to, or for India ; as St. Helena and Cape Bon Esperance , are by us and the Dutch .
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

“It’s right up among the hills—they must have brought us a long way.”
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The one consideration to be urged at this point is that the concept "social forces" has a real content.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Tomorrow ere fresh Morning streak the East With first approach of light, we must be ris’n, And at our pleasant labour, to reform Yon flourie Arbors, yonder Allies green, Our walks at noon, with branches overgrown, That mock our scant manuring, and require More hands then ours to lop thir wanton growth: Those Blossoms also, and those dropping Gumms, That lie bestrowne unsightly and unsmooth, Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease; Mean while, as Nature wills, Night bids us rest.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

How then, I would ask, can they be esteemed worthy of worship, when they propose that their own crimes be used as material for celebrating their praises?
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Our discourse was upon everything: the unhappiness of having our matters examined by people that understand them not; that it was better for us in the Navy to have men that do understand the whole, and that are not passionate; that we that have taken the most pains are called upon to answer for all crimes, while those that, like Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, did sit and do nothing, do lie still without any trouble; that, if it were to serve the King and kingdom again in a war, neither of us could do more, though upon this experience we might do better than we did; that the commanders, the gentlemen that could never be brought to order, but undid all, are now the men that find fault and abuse others; that it had been much better for the King to have given Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten L1000 a-year to have sat still, than to have had them in his business this war: that the serving a Prince that minds not his business is most unhappy for them that serve him well, and an unhappiness so great that he declares he will never have more to do with a war, under him.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

To correct the deviation of the hind limb is, however, very difficult, as the limbs themselves are out of reach and can not be used as levers to assist.
— from Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by Dr. (Benjamin Tilghman) Woodward

Well, Sir, look at the mess they bloomin' 'Uns 'ave made in the trench just after I've swep' it up!" MUSICAL JUMBOMANIA.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 23, 1916 by Various

But there are a number of words which we often use as adverbs, which may also be used as co-ordinate conjunctions.
— from Plain English by Marian Wharton

He came round the corner and Chitterlow had gone; he hurried to the next and there was no Chitterlow, he turned back unavailingly and his eyes sought some other possible corner.
— from Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Not long before, it seems that Uncas —the last man whose evidence should have been noticed at all—had called on Governor Haynes at Hartford, and informed him of Ninigret's visit to the Dutch; as also that he had made a league with them, bought up a large quantity of ammunition, and negotiated with the New York Indians for a war against Uncas and the English.
— from Indian Biography; Vol. 1 (of 2) Or, An Historical Account of Those Individuals Who Have Been Distinguished among the North American Natives as Orators, Warriors, Statesmen, and Other Remarkable Characters by B. B. (Benjamin Bussey) Thatcher

Enough to blow us all up.
— from Shaman by Robert Shea

But Ching bustled us along.
— from Blue Jackets: The Log of the Teaser by George Manville Fenn

Among these curious manuscripts were several which had been used and translated by the celebrated Walter de Mapes for the entertainment of his Sovereign, Henry II.
— from The Romance of Book-Collecting by J. Herbert (John Herbert) Slater