Does I shin aroun’ mongs’ de neighbors en fine out which un you de bill do b’long to, en han’ it over to de right one, all safe en soun’, de way dat anybody dat had any gumption would?
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

“But that had already been done by Dr. Bauerstein,” said Lawrence quickly.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

"Nay," retorted Xenophon, "by the same token we shall all one day be dead, but that is no reason why meantime we should all be buried alive?"
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

And I say they are mischief-making Boffins, and I say the Boffins have set Bella against me, and I tell the Boffins to their faces:' which was not strictly the fact, but the young lady was excited: 'that they are detestable Boffins, disreputable Boffins, odious Boffins, beastly Boffins.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

He got Mr. Peggotty to sing, or rather to roar, ‘When the stormy winds do blow, do blow, do blow’; and he sang a sailor’s song himself, so pathetically and beautifully, that I could have almost fancied that the real wind creeping sorrowfully round the house, and murmuring low through our unbroken silence, was there to listen.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Then suddenly getting up, and in a great amazement running to the window, he cried out to the streets as high as he could, Dal baroth, dal baroth, dal baroth, which is as much to say as Fire, fire, fire.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Meditations of evolution increasingly vaster: of the moon invisible in incipient lunation, approaching perigee: of the infinite lattiginous scintillating uncondensed milky way, discernible by daylight by an observer placed at the lower end of a cylindrical vertical shaft 5000 ft deep sunk from the surface towards the centre of the earth: of Sirius (alpha in Canis Maior) 10 lightyears (57,000,000,000,000 miles) distant and in volume 900 times the dimension of our planet: of Arcturus: of the precession of equinoxes: of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and nebula in which 100 of our solar systems could be contained: of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging towards the constellation of Hercules: of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

aground, grounded, swamped, stranded, cast away, wrecked, foundered, capsized, shipwrecked, nonsuited[obs3]; foiled; defeated &c. 731; struck down, borne down, broken down; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; all up with; ploughed, plowed, plucked. lost, undone, ruined, broken; bankrupt &c. (not paying) 808; played out; done up, done for; dead beat, ruined root and branch, flambe[obs3], knocked on the head; destroyed &c. 162. frustrated, crossed, unhinged, disconcerted dashed; thrown off one's balance, thrown on one's back, thrown on one's beam ends|; unhorsed, in a sorry plight; hard hit.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

But this man was not only driven by despair, but drawn by trust.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark by Alexander Maclaren

There is a generic difference between Doctor Bataille and Miss Vaughan.
— from Devil-Worship in France; or, The Question of Lucifer by Arthur Edward Waite

We were instructed to stay at our posts, which we did, and later we got instructions to check the area around the Depository, Book Depository Building, and to obtain the license numbers of all those cars parked around there, which we did.
— from Warren Commission (06 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

"Say, Jimmie," demanded he, "what deh hell is dat behind deh bar?" "Damned if I knows," replied Jimmie.
— from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

The city is double, being divided by a wall, for in past times some of the Indiceti dwelt close by, who, although they had a separate polity to themselves, desired, for the sake of safety, to be shut in by a common enclosure with the Grecians; but at the same time that this enclosure should be two-fold, being divided through its middle by a wall.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 1 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

"T here was a maid came out of Kent, Dangerous be, dangerous be; There was a maid came out of Kent, Fayre, propre, small, and gent As ever upon the ground went, For so should it be." Of authentic currency in Mary's time.
— from A History of Nursery Rhymes by Percy B. Green

He relieved, what we suppose he felt was the monotony of the descent, by descending by the preventer brace.
— from The Colonial Clippers by Basil Lubbock

"As the social instincts," he says (Ibid. page 185.), "both of man and the lower animals have no doubt been developed by nearly the same steps, it would be advisable, if found practicable, to use the same definition in both cases, and to take as the standard of morality, the general good or welfare of the community, rather than the general happiness."
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

The outer surface is divided by double black lines into three zones.
— from The Maya Indians of Southern Yucatan and Northern British Honduras by Thomas William Francis Gann