She bandaged him, gave him cool drink, and left him to rest.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

She is sharp enough to suspect something, and bold enough to come downstairs and listen, if she can get the chance.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

One gleam of light lifted into relief a half-submerged mast, on which sat a cormorant, dark and large, with wings flecked with foam; its beak held a gold bracelet set with gems, that I had touched with as brilliant tints as my palette could yield, and as glittering distinctness as my pencil could impart.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Unas veces se «armaba», clavándose con las cuatro patas inmóviles donde le daba la gana, [7] sin avanzar ni retroceder aunque le destrozasen el hocico tirándole hacia adelante por la brida, o le azotasen las ancas duramente por detrás; no hacia más en tales casos que balancear el cuerpo con dirección a la retaguardia, y estremecerse de pies a cabeza [8] con temblor de pena y rabia al sentir el azote.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Yes, Miss Lavendar did know; the flush on her pretty cheeks deepened a little; she took Paul’s hand on one side and Anne’s on the other and walked to the house in silence.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

What chance does a Lani have?
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

So, as soon as he had returned safely to Nottingham, he sent messengers north and south, and east and west, to proclaim through town, hamlet, and countryside, this grand shooting match, and everyone was bidden that could draw a longbow, and the prize was to be an arrow of pure beaten gold.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

" So the baby was carried in a small deal box, under an ancient woman's shawl, to the churchyard that night, and buried by lantern-light, at the cost of a shilling and a pint of beer to the sexton, in that shabby corner of God's allotment where He lets the nettles grow, and where all unbaptized infants, notorious drunkards, suicides, and others of the conjecturally damned are laid.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

If you do—if you think I can do anything like that—I won't love you so much.”
— from The Portion of Labor by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

[19] A poor woman told her son to cut down a large pear tree, which stood in the garden of the cottage where they lived, for firewood, as they were suffering from cold.
— from Anecdotes for Boys by Harvey Newcomb

Chaucer's characters were all cleverly drawn and lifelike, while his innkeeper was a man of evidently high "social status," and, as he himself said, "wise and well taught."
— from England, Picturesque and Descriptive: A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook

both men and women cut their hair in the forehead which comes down as low as the eyebrows, they have long earlocks cut square at the end.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

It was a track, trodden out about half way up the slope of the valley in some parts of it, and now and then running along the top of the long, low hills that have been called downs as long as the memory of man holds a trace of them.
— from In the Days of the Guild by Louise Lamprey

Clark did a little work in the village, but not much, for he was incapable of steady manual labor.
— from Phoebe Daring: A Story for Young Folk by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

But presently the colour deepened a little in her still fresh cheek, and her eyes grew brighter; for, coming up the ballroom, she saw the stalwart form of Buckstone Bradford, with pretty Nan beside him, looking like roses and milk in her white dress.
— from Jim of Hellas, or In Durance Vile; The Troubling of Bethesda Pool by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

They can't make a move till you come down, and lead the way in to dinner, you know!"
— from In Brief Authority by F. Anstey

[1288] Archivo gen. de la C. de Aragon, Leg.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 2 by Henry Charles Lea

After going on in this strain for an hour or more, attacking the opposite counsel and defending himself, in what Carlisle pronounced 'the most extraordinary opening argument he had ever heard in his life,' the District Attorney came down at last to the facts of the case."]
— from Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton, For Four Years and Four Months a Prisoner (For Charity's Sake) in Washington Jail Including A Narrative Of The Voyage And Capture Of The Schooner Pearl by Daniel Drayton