The old man beat the door with his fists and with his head, while he littered cries stifled and inarticulate, like those of a dumb person, until he was at length driven away by blows and shoves.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

, She developed a beautiful body as she grew to maturity.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

They seemed never to do anything but blow and sigh and rustle papers and go to sleep about the place; they were like [181] blight-spots on the handsome plant of this host-club, and it counted for little with Melville, in the state he was in, that all the fidgety breathers were persons of eminent position.
— from The Sea Lady by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

They had done a big business with Bremen before the war, and they would be doing a big business again soon.
— from Command by William McFee

The Catholics understand that these words denote that the bread and wine did at that time, and that they do now, whenever the communion service is celebrated by a priest duly authorized, become, by a sort of miraculous transformation, the true body and blood of Christ, and that the priest, in breaking the one and pouring out the other, is really and truly renewing the great sacrifice for sin made by Jesus Christ at his crucifixion.
— from Mary Queen of Scots Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

One yell only, and there was a mass of brick rising over him, the dog’s death and burial being a simultaneous act on the part of those who, old and young, did not pause until they had erected a rough but respectable mausoleum over the wolfish creature’s grave.
— from A Double Knot by George Manville Fenn

For instance, guns ought not to be talked about directly after breakfast, before a shot has been fired.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 8, 1892 by Various

Many a dim morning before the shadows lifted to the rising sun the trail had echoed to the clanging hoofs of Shandon's horse as he rode down and back, bringing a surprise for Wanda.
— from The Short Cut by Jackson Gregory

Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the temple of Yahweh.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

—Marriages between parents and children, ancestors and descendants of every degree, and between brothers and sisters of the half as well as the whole blood, and between uncles and nieces or aunts and nephews are incestuous and void, whether the relationship is legitimate or illegitimate.
— from Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World by Hyacinthe Ringrose