Lamia, regal drest, Silently paced about, and as she went, In pale contented sort of discontent, Mission'd her viewless servants to enrich The fretted splendour of each nook and niche.
— from Lamia by John Keats

"You don't know what I can do; snow produces a glow and a tingle, if applied rightly.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

They carry all their munitions into calling-overs and directly afterwards, having dodged such praepostors as are on the lookout for fags at cricket, the four set off at a smart trot down the Lawford footpath, straight for Caldecott's Spinney and the hawk's nest.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Upon this, the young lady cast a hurried glance towards the spot whence the dreadful sounds proceeded; and her previous alarm being not at all diminished when she saw a man among the branches, she would most certainly have decamped, and alarmed the house, had not fear fortunately deprived her of the power of moving, and caused her to sink down on a garden seat, which happened by good luck to be near at hand.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Juli would not have so very much to do: sew, pray, accompany her to mass, and fast for her now and then.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Struck her bow and turn the boat against Some drift & Snags which below with great force; This was a disagreeable and Dangerous Situation, particularly as immense large trees were Drifting down and we lay imediately in their Course,—Some of our men being prepared for all Situations leaped into the water Swam ashore with a roap, and fixed themselves in Such Situations, that the boat was off in a fiew minits, I can Say with Confidence that our party is not inferior to any that was ever on the waters of the Missoppie we Crossed to the Island and Camped, our hunters lay on the S. S. the wind from the S. W. the river continue to rise Slowly Current excessive rapid—The Countrey on the S. S. high bottom & Delghtfull land that on the L. S. is up land or hills of from 50 to 100 foot higher than the bottom & a thinly wooded, Countrey, Lands tolerably Good; Comminced raining at 5 oClock and continued by intervales the greater part of the night.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I did little more than pass through the Baptistery, glancing at the famous bronze doors, some perfect and admirable casts of which I had already seen at the Crystal Palace.
— from Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1. by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It was then nearly seven in the evening; a few torches, lighted here and there by the ushers, and casting a pale light, alone illuminated this assembly: they separated without seeing each other; and thus ended, as it were by stealth, that diet so pompously announced to the christian world.
— from History of the Great Reformation, Volume 4 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

"Did she possess a gold scarf, then?"
— from The Riddle of the Purple Emperor by Mary E. Hanshew

It was time for lunch, so they dismounted near a deep still pool and ate.
— from The Claim Jumpers: A Romance by Stewart Edward White

Les raisons d’état ont souvent dominé les intérêts matériels des villes; autrefois les voies étroites et tortueuses appliquées même aux rues pouvait faire partie des moyens de défense à l’usage de l’état: aujourd’hui des rues larges et droites deviennent dans l’intérieur des villes un premier élément de sécurité publique autant que d’hygiène; il y a donc double avantage à favoriser dans ces conditions, soit des percements nouveaux, soit l’élargissement des voies actuelles.
— from A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns. by Edwin Chadwick

And never before in the West Highlands were all the conveniences for “touristing” with ease and comfort, and all reasonable despatch, so perfect and so varied.
— from Nether Lochaber The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West Highlands by Stewart, Alexander, Rev.