"Now gie't me, Dan—Tol de rol— 'An' back and sides go bare, go bare.'" Approaching to the attack, Barnaby brandished his cudgel to the time and tune of this celebrated alehouse ditty.
— from Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by John Roby

country.—They did so, in the beginning of this controversy, most certainly; and they sought it by earnest supplications to government, which dignity rejected, and by a suspension of commerce, which the wealth of this nation enabled you to despise.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

He despised Reuben as bestial, and sometimes jeopardised his skin by nearly showing his contempt.
— from Sussex Gorse: The Story of a Fight by Sheila Kaye-Smith

Mr. Mainwaring's daughter rang a bell and switched on the electric light with remorseless severity; his wife came rustling down the broad oak staircase; and Mr. Mainwaring himself, realising that a further folding of the hands to sleep was out of the question, peeled off "The Spectator" and sat up.
— from Happy-go-lucky by Ian Hay

The College consisted of five deputies from the towns of Enkhuysen, Schiedam, Delft, Rotterdam, and Brill, and so exclusive were they that during the period with which we are concerned other towns, even such important places as Amsterdam, Dordrecht, and Hoorn, were refused admission.
— from Anglo-Dutch Rivalry During the First Half of the Seventeenth Century being the Ford lectures delivered at Oxford in 1910 by George Edmundson

The decision restored, as by a stroke of magic, all my good spirits.
— from The Quest of the Simple Life by W. J. (William James) Dawson

At last, feeling that he MUST KNOW that the lad was safe, he ordered the carriage and rode rapidly ten miles over a dusty road and beneath a scorching sun.
— from Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading by Frances Jenkins Olcott

Both of these birds seemed to feel fatigue, as, after circling round the ship for half an hour at a time, they would rest on the surface of the water, dropping rapidly astern, but after some 215 minutes resume their flight and soon overtake the ship.
— from Notes of a naturalist in South America by John Ball