Warner picks East up lame and half stunned, and he hobbles back into goal, conscious of having played the man.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Now although gymnastics and common meals do good, they are also a cause of evil in civil troubles, and they appear to encourage unnatural love, as has been shown at Miletus, in Boeotia, and at Thurii.
— from Laws by Plato

Panache; but, turning his eye upon Lady Augusta, he thought she blushed, and this blush at once saved her, in his opinion, and increased his indignation against her governess.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 01 Moral Tales by Maria Edgeworth

Mebbe the sheriff's posse has stirred 'em up like a hornet's nest, and they're on the jump!"
— from The House Boat Boys; Or, Drifting Down to the Sunny South by St. George Rathborne

There were unexpected windows, with deep seats under them, in dark corners, and important looking doors which merely opened into narrow linen closets, while smaller doors gave entrance upon long and heavily furnished rooms, which one would not have really believed were in the house, to look at them from the outside.
— from The Corner House Girls How they moved to Milton, what they found, and what they did by Grace Brooks Hill

Thin indeed she was—almost wasted—her eyes unnaturally large and hollow.
— from The Tree of Knowledge: A Novel by Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.

But the immensity of the sea had an irritating effect upon Lazare, and he fled into the fields and wandered about them, looking for out-of-the-way corners where he could feel alone and concealed.
— from The Joy of Life [La joie de vivre] by Émile Zola

The village of Foxburg, which bears the family-name and is four miles below Emlenton, had no existence until long after his death.
— from Sketches in Crude-oil Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globe by John J. (John James) McLaurin

Fos. , p. 347) that zaffre came from bismuth, a belief that existed until long after his time.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

In the evenings Uncle Lyman and his wife at their several sides of the fireplace, she with her knitting, and he with his pipe, and I in a corner of the settle, talked of the days when my father was alive, and of the labors they underwent to make a good farm, clearing the brush and stones and building the fences.
— from Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee

Before leaving France, he vented his spleen in a parcel of epigrams upon Louis and his subjects, which he sent in all secrecy to his affectionate admirer, Frederick.
— from Frederick the Great and the Rise of Prussia by William Fiddian Reddaway

I was then in command of the Lyra, on the homeward voyage from China, after the embassy under Lord Amherst had been concluded.
— from The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels by Basil Hall