"This is the second time you have called us," said the Monkey King, bowing before the little girl.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

That done I to walk in the Parke, where to the Queene’s Chapel, and there heard a fryer preach with his cord about his middle, in Portuguese, something I could understand, showing that God did respect the meek and humble, as well as the high and rich.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

SYN: Backwardness, cold, silent, cautious, unsociable, sly, bashful, [See FRIGID and SLY].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Know, then, that hardly a day goes by that my men don’t come upon some fine specimen of the family of gnawers, most generally squirrels, in whose cheek-pouches we invariably find from one to half a dozen dainty nuts stowed away.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

Except for that grueling ordeal under the Ice Bank at the South Pole, we had never felt better, neither Ned, Conseil, nor I. The nutritious food, life–giving air, regular routine, and uniform temperature kept illness at bay; and for a man who didn't miss his past existence on land, for a Captain Nemo who was at home here, who went where he wished, who took paths mysterious to others if not himself in attaining his ends, I could understand such a life.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

It was then that his child Ursula strove to be with him.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

He proposed to call upon Sir William, who had done him the honour of a visit a short time ago.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

I fled not for whoredom, nor for theft, but because I would be no partaker with him and his of that foul idol the mass; and wheresoever I was, as oft as I could, upon Sundays and holydays, I made excuses not to go to the popish church.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Christianity did not come to destroy; the ancient springs were dry already, and for two or three centuries unmistakable signs of decadence had appeared in every sphere, not least in that of religion and philosophy.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

"Before darkness closed in, all the curiosities and ingenious contrivances of the place had been displayed—the kitchen stove, cooking utensils, skin bottles, shell plates and spoons, the fishing raft and numberless other things—and then, as I sat with my fair hostess at a most appetizing meal she gave me a short account of her life.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

The breeze freshened, and we held on, and, though the stranger still continued to overhaul us, he did not come up so fast as at first.
— from The Pirate of the Mediterranean: A Tale of the Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston

But the fella I'm leavin' alone is the one what cinches up slow afore he climbs into the saddle.
— from Jim Waring of Sonora-Town; Or, Tang of Life by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Hitherto we have met with nothing that can be regarded as portraiture of individual character, unless somewhat of the sort be alleged in the case of Mak the sheep-stealing rogue.
— from Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson

The river was clear but brimful; indeed, here and away overflowing its banks, and running so wildly that a dry fly cast up stream in the usual manner immediately dragged, and if thrown across, the line sagged or bellied, and consequently, whenever a fish took my fly, it was most difficult, on the slack line, to strike and hook him.
— from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906 by Various

"He must be climbing up," said Andy.
— from Frank and Andy Afloat Or, The Cave on the Island by Vance Barnum

He was a long time going, for he ran a good many times after butterflies, and then he climbed up several trees; and altogether he amused himself for such a long while that when he reached the boat his fairy woman was there before him.
— from Mopsa the Fairy by Jean Ingelow

She was, moreover “ folle de ce cher Jean Jacques, l’homme de la Nature, et citoyen de Genève ,” and raved about sentiment and presentiment, and the errors 336 and vices of civilization, and the far more preferable state of savage life, and “the feelings implanted in our bosoms by the God of Nature,” &c.; until she, being rather a portly person, and always overlaced, would sometimes turn suddenly black in the face, and alarm her auditors by a desperate fit of coughing, which she owed to her asthma, and which was only quelled by the exertions of the two tall valets who stood behind her chair; the one patted her most vigorously on the back, while the other jerked cold water in her face from a glass ewer, which always stood ready at hand for the purpose.
— from Reminiscences of Prince Talleyrand, Volume 1 (of 2) by Colmache, M., active 19th century

“A curse upon such little minds!” mused Hitt, when he could no longer restrain himself.
— from Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking