But before five minutes have passed he draws himself up, shakes his head as though he feels a sharp pain, and tugs at the reins....
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"Dear God, do help us," she cried.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

All at once a gentleman in an evening-dress coat and with long moustaches and a red face separated himself from the crowd and directed his uncertain steps straight towards Princess Mary.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

Now drinkes he up seas, and he eates up flocks, He justles Ilands, and he shakes firme rockes.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

“Yes, your honor,” the soldier replied complacently, and rolling his eyes more than ever he drew himself up still straighter, but did not move.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The appearance of this man had sufficed to suffuse with light that matter which had been so obscure but a moment previously, without any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric revelation, understood instantly and at a single glance the simple and magnificent history of a man who was delivering himself up so that another man might not be condemned in his stead.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Unreal City, 60 Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.
— from The Waste Land by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

“I wonder where did they dig her up,” said Kathleen to Miss Healy.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

She drew herself up slowly, shading her eyes with her hand to look.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

If she had only realized—she even might have dressed him up, she speculated, and had him at her house for dinner!
— from The Old Flute-Player: A Romance of To-day by Charles Turner Dazey

But Dick, half unconsciously, still clutched the broken rifle.
— from The Wheel O' Fortune by Louis Tracy

The shock of her uncle's death had undoubtedly shaken her whole balance, moral, physical, and mental.
— from The Captives by Hugh Walpole

Nevertheless, Bruce was distressed to note the ineffaceable signs of the suffering Sir Charles Dyke had undergone since the disappearance of his wife.
— from A Mysterious Disappearance by Louis Tracy

And this scheme, by leaving to the geologist in this country and elsewhere, save mayhap in some unknown Asiatic district, his unbroken series, certainly does not conflict with the facts educed by geologic discovery.
— from The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller

It was, however, a serious problem to draw himself up so as to profit by what he had already done.
— from A Cousin's Conspiracy; Or, A Boy's Struggle for an Inheritance by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Then, certain roughnesses tempted him, and he succeeded in drawing himself up several feet.
— from Jim: The Story of a Backwoods Police Dog by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

In his delirium he uttered some rambling words about a secret which, reported to [Pg 102] Argyll, were enough to put those quick wits on the track.
— from Montrose by Mowbray Morris