Yes, when our friendship threatened to develop into something more serious.
— from Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

In particular, he had some sewed up in the skins of wild beasts, and then worried by dogs till they expired; and others dressed in shirts made stiff with wax, fixed to axletrees, and set on fire in his gardens, in order to illuminate them.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

In those days I saw my sister in the near-by college, she presented me with a piece of her own [ 477 ] embroidery-work.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

The dance is so merry, So merry in the greenwood.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

‘What a dear that Mr. Digby is!’ said Miss Snevellicci, as the tailor went off on the opposite side, at the end of the piece, with great applause.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Unless the fear of death doth make me dote, I see my son Antipholus, and Dromio.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Don Ponce , a Spanish knight, 'Had passed his days in stupor most sublime , His nights in deep allegiance to his pillow; Untroubled by the crown, the church-bell's chime, Sleep, garlic, wine, and oil, a constant fill o' !'
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 3, September 1843 by Various

A daughter in service may send an article of apparel, a son-in-law may give a Sunday’s dinner, and a son may make a weekly contribution of grocery.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

Then, with an abrupt change of subject, she added: "Speaking of folks dying, I see Mr. Solomon Baxter as I was coming along.
— from Half a Dozen Girls by Anna Chapin Ray

Another feature of the older cliff dwellings is still more significant in this connection—the presence of the kiva; for the kiva or sacred assembly room was never, for mythic and sociologic reasons, built in temporary or outlying settlements.
— from Outlines of Zuñi Creation Myths Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 321-448 by Frank Hamilton Cushing

“An’ in this dream I saw many strange things, garments unlike aught men wear now.”
— from Through Welsh Doorways by Jeannette Augustus Marks

Conscious of my danger, I stripped my shirt from my back, and pushed it into the boiling kettle, so as wholly to conceal the flesh of the sheep.
— from Fifty Years in Chains; or, the Life of an American Slave by Charles Ball

‘A lifelong task must needs be rooted in one’s breast—it is idle to deny it,’ said Masthlion, sick at heart.
— from Neæra: A Tale of Ancient Rome by Graham, John W. (John William), active 1886-1887

Then you must have your watch ready to reckon your speed, so many thousand feet up or down in so many seconds, and your map spread out (nailed to a board, and that lashed fast), to tell where you are, and your compass out to fix the north and south points, for a balloon twists slowly all the time, twists one way going up and the other way coming down.
— from Careers of Danger and Daring by Cleveland Moffett

"The description is sufficient, Miss," said Marian; "I shall not be mistaken."
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds