The forge was shut up for the day, and Joe inscribed in chalk upon the door (as it was his custom to do on the very rare occasions when he was not at work) the monosyllable HOUT, accompanied by a sketch of an arrow supposed to be flying in the direction he had taken.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Thinking him extremely rude I turned my back and went downstairs, arriving just in time to prevent the postillion taking out the horses.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

but she let old Belsham rest; and, when I ran back after my gloves this afternoon, there she was, so hard at the Vicar that she didn't hear me laugh as I danced a jig in the hall, because of the good time coming.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

The left pneumo-gastric nerve winds round beneath the arch at the point where the obliterated ductus arteriosus joins it.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

The palace tower had lost the reflection of the declining day, and joined itself to earth.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Monthly, price 2 s. 6 d. Notes and Sketches of an Architect taken during a Journey in the North-West of Europe.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

Not that you were not always a good boy, sir; but boys will be boys, Master Dorian, and jam is a temptation to the young, isn't it, sir?" He laughed.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

And when he observed that there was a city by the sea-side that was much decayed, [its name was Strato's Tower,] but that the place, by the happiness of its situation, was capable of great improvements from his liberality, he rebuilt it all with white stone, and adorned it with several most splendid palaces, wherein he especially demonstrated his magnanimity; for the case was this, that all the sea-shore between Dora and Joppa, in the middle, between which this city is situated, had no good haven, insomuch that every one that sailed from Phoenicia for Egypt was obliged to lie in the stormy sea, by reason of the south winds that threatened them; which wind, if it blew but a little fresh, such vast waves are raised, and dash upon the rocks, that upon their retreat the sea is in a great ferment for a long way.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Psychology cannot present the living ego as an association of terms mutually distinct and juxtaposited in a homogeneous medium.
— from Humanistic Studies of the University of Kansas, Vol. 1 by Pearl Hogrefe

The answer to this question every prudent tradesman may make for himself: if his pleasure is in his shop, and in his business, there is no danger of him; but if he has an itch after exotic diversions—I mean such as are foreign to his shop, and to his business, and which I therefore call exotic —let him honestly and fairly state the case between his shop and his diversions, and judge impartially for himself.
— from The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by Daniel Defoe

"Was it the dog?" asked James in a low voice.
— from 'Doc.' Gordon by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

At Garigana, several of our caravan, with their asses and loading of salt, left us, either afraid of entering Teawa, or because their friends dwelt at Jibbel Isriff, where the clan of Jehaina were then encamped, being afraid of the Arabs Daveina, who, the preceding year, had destroyed all the crops and villages that belonged to them, or rather reaped them for their own advantage.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 4 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

Düntzer, in Schnorr’s Archiv , 62 explains a passage in a letter of Goethe’s to Johanna Fahlmer (August, 1775), “die Verworrenheiten des Diego und Juliens” as an allusion to the “Intricacies of Diego and Julia” in Slawkenbergius’s tale, 63 and to the traveler’s conversation with his beast.
— from Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer

"How did you make out, Dashington?" asked Jurgens, in his anxiety getting up and leaning over the side of the car.
— from Motor Matt's Promise; or, The Wreck of the Hawk by Stanley R. Matthews

I soon heard a clattering noise of feet in the courtyard, which I concluded to be Jan and Dorcas dancing a jig in their Cumberland wooden clogs.
— from Redgauntlet: A Tale Of The Eighteenth Century by Walter Scott

A detail of the assembly of the drops and jacks in such a switchboard [Page 67] is shown in Fig.
— from Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by American School of Correspondence