They got up by ones and twos and fours, and danced and sang to an accompaniment of weird music.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Now, just as Feeble-mind and Gaius were thus in talk, there came one running, and called at the door, and said, that "About a mile and a half off
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

She was wonderfully well, eating, drinking, and sleeping to admiration, and never doing anything, not even reading or writing.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

With strict inquiry I could ne'er discover, And scorn to add a syllable untrue; But ere the middle watch was hardly over, Just when the fading lamps waned dim and blue, And phantoms hover'd, or might seem to hover, To those who like their company, about The apartment, on a sudden she scream'd out:
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Be content, Anselmo, and refrain from making further proof; and as thou hast passed dryshod through the sea of those doubts and suspicions that are and may be entertained of women, seek not to plunge again into the deep ocean of new embarrassments, or with another pilot make trial of the goodness and strength of the bark that Heaven has granted thee for thy passage across the sea of this world; but reckon thyself now safe in port, moor thyself with the anchor of sound reflection, and rest in peace until thou art called upon to pay that debt which no nobility on earth can escape paying."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

He when Pausanias was sacrificing was wounded in the side by an arrow; and then they fought, but on being carried off he regretted his death, and said to Arimnestus, a Platæan, that he did not grieve at dying for Greece, but at not having struck a blow, or, although he desired so to do, performed any deed worthy of himself.”
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

I went to the largest of these (Douglas) and spent the afternoon and evening.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

We all acknowledged that we felt this something of a disappointment; but Mrs. Gummidge said she felt it more than we did, and shed tears again, and made that former declaration with great bitterness.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

As he turned half round, gazing in that direction, a soldier took aim at him.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

“The crime was discovered, as such things always are, and Clarence Sage was arrested, tried, convicted and sent to Sing Sing for a term of years.”
— from The Great Oakdale Mystery by Morgan Scott

I once believed that the surest mark of such tears was the deceiving attempt to beat down and suppress them; an attempt which is made with elementary vigor.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

In the strict sense dogmas are such truths as are contained in divine revelation, and are proclaimed by the infallible teaching authority of the Church to be believed as such by the faithful.
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat

When thought understands itself, it does not demand any such transcendence at all, for there is no thought-content which does not find within the world a perceptual content, in union with which it can form a real object.
— from The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity A Modern Philosophy of Life Developed by Scientific Methods by Rudolf Steiner

The water ran deep and swift, though, and as Ted stooped to drink, he found that, rhythmically, a larger swell, (call it a wave), would slap him in the face, till once, blinded by the unexpected onslaught, he all but lost his balance.
— from Unexplored! by Allen Chaffee

Let him have the option of one or two hours’ fresh air, either now, or before 3 P.M. ; let him sleep full three hours; let him have his hot portion of dinner taken to him at the usual hour, unless all the Orderlies on night duty are served together at a different hour; and let him, 3 P.M. , return on duty, washed and shaved.
— from Subsidiary Notes as to the Introduction of Female Nursing into Military Hospitals in Peace and War by Florence Nightingale

Elinor had not once spoken to her since the play; and the childish character, even more than the extreme youth of Selina, made it seem improper, in so discarded a state, to accept any succour from her clandestinely.
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 1 of 5) by Fanny Burney

See, sir, she has, wherever she has dared to do it without being seen by the Indians, broken down a small twig as a guide to us.
— from The Settlers in Canada by Frederick Marryat

'As a matter of fact, I've just cleaned up to-day' he replied brusquely 'Had my final settlement with Lloyds this morning—and did a silly thing, as a fellow will sometimes.
— from Under Sail by Lincoln Colcord

Instead of building his structure upon firm and open ground, so that thoughtful men can see that his basis is solid and scientific, Mr. George dashes at once into a thicket and lays his foundations with quickness and assurance where all is dark and doubtful, or at best where all is rather incidental than fundamental and demonstrable, and pretty soon displays a superstructure that appears attractive both without and within, through whose airy halls [175] he knows how to conduct to their delight the credulous and discontented, and on whose walls hang plausible pictures calculated to invite and hold the attention of the masses.
— from Principles of Political Economy by Arthur Latham Perry