Howling and foaming they rolled over and over on the floor, scratching and clawing, until the cat screamed and fled under the cabinet, and Mr. Wilde turned over on his back, his limbs contracting and curling up like the legs of a dying spider.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

"Halloa, good friend," quoth Robin, from beneath the hedge, when the other had gotten nigh enough, "whither away so merrily this bright day?" Hearing himself so called upon, the Cobbler stopped, and, seeing a well- clad stranger in blue, he spoke to him in seemly wise.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Many feet came up the creaking stairs; and the step of some seemed to his listening ear so like that of the man for whom he waited, that Ralph often stood up to be ready to address him when he reached the top; but, one by one, each person turned off into some room short of the place where he was stationed: and at every such disappointment he felt quite chilled and lonely.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

—Has any one ever clearly understood the celebrated story at the beginning of the Bible—of God’s mortal terror of science ?...
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The coadjutor bowed and left the palace, casting upon the cardinal such a glance as is best understood by mortal foes.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

The City Council had passed a quiet and innocent little bill allowing a company to construct telephone conduits under the city streets; and upon the strength of this, a great corporation had proceeded to tunnel all Chicago with a system of railway freight-subways.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

All his comrades roared with laughter when they understood, and the whole procession came up the camp street as if they were going to a workman's Sunday picnic.
— from Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany by Edward Lyell Fox

This should be continued until the crusts soften and begin to drop off, then the parts may be cleansed thoroughly with warm water and soap.
— from Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by Dr. (Benjamin Tilghman) Woodward

I heard the train coming in the distance as I was harnessing the horse, and I immediately caught up the candle, scarf, and matches, and ran down the line to meet the train.
— from The Last of the Bushrangers: An Account of the Capture of the Kelly Gang by Francis Augustus Hare

But it seemed that they were of divided counsels; some being for making the present their stronghold, and setting pursuit at defiance, while they made raids in different directions; others being for proceeding along the coast until they could seize another vessel, and cruise from place to place.
— from Midnight Webs by George Manville Fenn

I was conscious of others like Stumpy coming up the creaking stairs and offering their ill-gotten gains as he had done; and I was conscious towards evening, when the last rays of the setting sun were struggling feebly through the dingy window, of a groan in that dismal corner, deeper than all that had gone before.
— from The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch by Talbot Baines Reed