They would sell their furniture, and then run into debt at the stores, and then be refused credit; they would borrow a little from the Szedvilases, whose delicatessen store was tottering on the brink of ruin; the neighbors would come and help them a little—poor, sick Jadvyga would bring a few spare pennies, as she always did when people were starving, and Tamoszius Kuszleika would bring them the proceeds of a night's fiddling.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Happened on them in the woods back of the widow’s one day, and they slunk away.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

It ends by her winning from God a respite of suffering every year from Good Friday till Trinity Day, and the sinners at once raise a cry of thankfulness from hell, chanting, ‘Thou art just, O Lord, in this judgment.’
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[DRUM AND TRUMPETS SOUND AGAIN.] Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero— MOR [ABOVE]: Villains, murderers, sons of the earth, and traitors, what do you there? CLER:
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

They put him down among the sailors, and made a whaleman of him.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

For instance, standing upright as a post, he would suddenly bend over to one side, so that one expected him to fall over; but with the next step he would suddenly bend over in the opposite direction at the same acute angle to the floor.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fifthly, There is a way to cure diseases sometimes by Sympathy , and so every planet cures his own disease; as the Sun and Moon by their Herbs cure the Eyes, Saturn the Spleen, Jupiter the liver, Mars the Gall and diseases of choler, and Venus diseases in the instruments of Generation.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Two hundred and fourscore writers, historians, orators, philosophers, theologians, are reviewed without any regular method: he abridges their narrative or doctrine, appreciates their style and character, and judges even the fathers of the church with a discreet freedom, which often breaks through the superstition of the times.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

RIVINGTONS, St. Paul's Church Yard, and Waterloo Place; Of whom may be had, by the same Editor (uniformly printed), CHRISTIAN INSTITUTES; a Series of Discourses and Tracts, selected, arranged systematically, and illustrated with Notes.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 178, March 26, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

“He wrote—indeed I may say sang, for his whole history is one noble poem—of the ancient Medes and Assyrians, and of the long line of Persia’s kings; he sang the wars of Cyrus, and told the sad tale of the kingdom of Lydia, and he sung the wars of gallant Darius and the Scythians, and told of conquering Cambyses, and Egypt of the olden time; and last, but not least, sir, he wrote on Cats and Cat-life .
— from Cats: Their Points and Characteristics With Curiosities of Cat Life, and a Chapter on Feline Ailments by Gordon Stables

He sent likewise Orders to the Commandant at Missilimakinak to assemble all the Nations living round him, and to march them to Oniagara , in order to join the Forces of Canada designed against the Senekas , and the other Officers posted among the Indians Westward had the like Orders.
— from The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada Which are dependent on the Province of New-York, and are a barrier between the English and the French in that part of the world by Cadwallader Colden

As a matter of fact 9 and 11, which are directly above the sacrifice, also refer particularly to that part of the representation.
— from Commentary on the Maya Manuscript in the Royal Public Library of Dresden by Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann

She made excuses to consult books in Miss Beaton’s room, that she might be near her; she dreamed, and the sweetness and the sadness of it centred about Miss Beaton.
— from Emmy Lou: Her Book and Heart by George Madden Martin

Worn out with the toil of the day and the storm and stress of the night before, they slumbered heavily.
— from The Old Dominion by Mary Johnston

[Sidenote:—2—] Besides forwarding this communication to the senate, he sent to the senate the records discovered among the soldiers and the letters of Macrinus written, to Maximus, and sent them likewise to the legions, hoping that these would cause them to hold the preceding emperor's memory in greater detestation, and to feel greater affection for him.
— 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

They were nearing the completion of the meal when there came a knock upon the cabin door, and the sentry announced that a messenger had arrived with a letter for “his Highness, the most honourable Admiral Prince Wong-lih”.
— from A Chinese Command: A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas by Harry Collingwood