" After a while the laundress recovered herself, and they led her to her poor dwelling, and put her to bed.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

But St. Peter walked slower and slower, though Brother Lustig did all he could to drive and push him on, and at last they heard that the princess was dead.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

When, however, they attempted to put her off yet once more, until the rice should be trodden out, she could bear it no longer, and taking off her bracelets and earrings, which she left behind the door, and placing her little sister in the swinging-cot, she changed herself into a ground-dove and flew away to the clearing.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Adam exclaimed, with a flash of recurring anger and suspicion, moving towards the door and placing his back against it.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Among the Ullādans, the nephew is the chief mourner, for he usually [ 219 ] succeeds to the property of the dead, and proves his right of ownership by acting as the chief mourner.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Thoreau appraised his busy, industrious fellow men shrewdly and intelligently—and he appreciated them in his way; but he did not see why he should find a job among them and go to work every day, and put his savings in the bank, and be a citizen in his town, and run for office, or serve in any way in civic affairs.
— from The Mentor: American Naturalists, Vol. 7, Num. 9, Serial No. 181, June 15, 1919 by Ernest Ingersoll

The high trees were farther apart, and a thick undergrowth began to make its appearance, frequently causing him to make long detours and preventing his following the line he had marked out for himself.
— from By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

This insured his march against disturbance; and, to give him time, I halted two days at Pleasant Hill, prepared for action.
— from Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Richard Taylor

Still, it must be admitted that scientific discoveries and principles have been largely employed in our time to give form and consistency to ideas otherwise very dim and shadowy, and thus to rehabilitate for our benefit the philosophical dreams of antiquity in a more substantial shape.
— from Facts and fancies in modern science Studies of the relations of science to prevalent speculations and religious belief by Dawson, John William, Sir

first:—but I have toiled long and laboured hard; I have done my duty, and Providence has blessed my works.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 380, July 11, 1829 by Various

To this request she added information about Catherine Curieux, begging Grossetete to interest the procureur-general in the good work she wished to do, and persuade him to write to the prefecture of police in Paris to recover traces of the girl.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

¶When Megacles was dead and Pyrrhus had cast off his cap the battle took an opposite turn.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 6 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus And Alexander Severus by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

"Formerly a working man ate three wheat cakes in the course of the day; at present he has not even barley bread.
— from The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Bolesław Prus

Bear Cat stumbled across the threshold unaided, but as he halted, blinking at the light, he reeled drunkenly and propped his disheveled body against the wall.
— from When 'Bear Cat' Went Dry by Charles Neville Buck