Her heart did not still its fluttering till she was safe in the drawing-room, with the windows fastened and bolted, and the familiar walls hemming her round, and shutting her in.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

And hence it follows that as the flesh of the wife is one and the same with that of her husband the stains that may come upon it, or the injuries it incurs fall upon the husband’s flesh, though he, as has been said, may have given no cause for them; for as the pain of the foot or any member of the body is felt by the whole body, because all is one flesh, as the head feels the hurt to the ankle without having caused it, so the husband, being one with her, shares the dishonour of the wife; and as all worldly honour or dishonour comes of flesh and blood, and the erring wife’s is of that kind, the husband must needs bear his part of it and be held dishonoured without knowing it.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Nothing remained to hinder the balloon from ascending but the hands and weight of those who were holding on to it with ropes.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

Why of your further aid bereave me?
— from Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798) by William Wordsworth

However Strato, the tyrant of Berea, the confederate of Philip, called in Zizon, the ruler of the Arabian tribes, and Mithridates Sinax, the ruler of the Parthians, who coming with a great number of forces, and besieging Demetrius in his encampment, into which they had driven them with their arrows, they compelled those that were with him by thirst to deliver up themselves.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

If the information is derived from another Brother, who states that he has examined the party, then all that has already been said of the competency of the one giving the information is equally applicable.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

The shores on either side are very steep, and the large oak-trees which have anchored their roots in every crevice of the rock, throw their fantastic arms far over the foaming waterfall, the deep green of their massy foliage forming a beautiful contrast with the white, flashing waters that foam over the shoot at least fifty feet below the brow of the limestone rock.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Tim affected to receive this intimation with good humour, saying, he expected in a post or two, from Potsdam, a poem of thanks from his Prussian majesty, who knew very well how to pay poets in their own coin; but, in the mean time, he proposed, that Mr Birkin and he should run three times round the garden for a bowl of punch, to be drank at Ashley’s in the evening, and he would run boots against stockings.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

And though we hope for a better life, eternal happiness, after these painful and miserable days, yet we cannot compose ourselves willingly to die; the remembrance of it is most grievous unto us, especially to such who are fortunate and rich: they start at the name of death, as a horse at a rotten post.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

CHAPTER L. Captain Ned Blakely—Bill Nookes Receives Desired Information—Killing of Blakely’s Mate—A Walking Battery—Blakely Secures Nookes—Hang First and Be Tried Afterwards—Captain Blakely as a Chaplain—The First Chapter of Genesis Read at a Hanging—Nookes Hung—
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Oh that I could get my hands free and be at him!
— from Clutterbuck's Treasure by Frederick Whishaw

"I don't think I have been sorry at all," she said; "I have been very happy all the time, and I forgot about being disappointed."
— from Golden Moments Bright Stories for Young Folks by Anonymous

No difference was it his own flesh and blood—if the price was right!
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

“Huh,” says Catty, “I dunno as we could find a better hiding place for it.
— from Catty Atkins, Sailorman by Clarence Budington Kelland

For as by true and genuine love, we hear Christ; so by faith and profound humility, we must see him; for that only can purify our hearts from vain pride.
— from True Christianity A Treatise on Sincere Repentence, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc. by Johann Arndt

She shrank from it, as from a blow.
— from Mal Moulée: A Novel by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There was a great deal in the lad, more than one would think, for he looked not a man of flesh and blood, but a fair-haired, finikin doll, a fashion-plate.
— from Old People and the Things That Pass by Louis Couperus

In other words, he began to suspect, that though he was a very fine fellow, daring to do anything, and ready to fight any boy of his age, he was in reality a remarkably ignorant young gentleman.
— from Digby Heathcote: The Early Days of a Country Gentleman's Son and Heir by William Henry Giles Kingston

An awful scaly head appeared with dull eyes and countless flashing fangs, and behind the head cubit upon cubit of monstrous form.
— from Morning Star by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard