This he carried up the ladder, and sticking his rod through the clog at one end, allowed the other end of the chain to trail upon the ground.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

One day when we were walking side by side and talking together, a little wretch of seven came up to Lehardy, and, seizing him by the ear, pulled it cruelly merely for the pleasure of hearing the poor little boy scream.
— from Coward or Hero? by Eugène (Dramatist) Leclerc

The lynx was soon lying in a puddle, and to get out of it she climbed upon the log and stretched herself out on the wet, brown bark.
— from Forest Neighbors: Life Stories of Wild Animals by William Davenport Hulbert

When Hook subsequently called upon the landlord and settled his bill, it is said that he and his victim had a good laugh over the affair, but if that tale is true, that landlord must have been a very forgiving man.
— from The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries: To-Day and in Days of Old by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

He came up the ladder and she heard him say to someone on deck: “Orders to go back in an hour.”
— from The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows by Joseph Conrad

This he carried up the ladder, and sticking his rod through the clog at one end, allowed the other end of the chain to trail upon the ground The spike attached to it he drove in.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

It was not worth Christ's while to die, it was not worth God's while to send His Son, there was no sense or consistency in that great voice that echoes from heaven, calling us to love and serve Him, unless, beyond the jangling contradictions, and imperfect attainments, and foiled aspirations, and fragmentary faith, and broken services of earth, there be a region of completeness where all that was tendency here shall have become effect; and all that was but in germ here, and sorely frostbitten by the ungenial climate, and shrivelled by the foul vapours in the atmosphere, shall blossom and burgeon into eternal life.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren

Elijah took the dead child away into a loft—the upper chamber, which was often the best part of an Eastern house—and cried unto the Lord, and stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried again and again unto the Lord, and the child’s life returned.
— from Bible Characters by Dwight Lyman Moody

Then, Hodges climbed upon the ledge, and she heard his shout, coming faintly to her ears above the roar of the cascade which fell just beyond the cavern’s mouth.
— from Heart of the Blue Ridge by Waldron Baily

The presence of this young man, cheerful, decided, taking practical measures at once, cheered up the lawyer, and steadied his shattered nerves.
— from The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Walter Besant