Let them have a song with our folks, and cheer up Lyubóv and the guests.
— from Plays by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky

Of course I was terribly knocked over at first by being captured like a felon and clapped under lock and key; but I am getting over that.
— from A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day by Charles Reade

The Girl of the Cabin He saw Neb drop down before the blazing fireplace, and curl up like a tired dog, and observed her take the lamp, open the door into the other room a trifle, and slip silently out of sight.
— from Keith of the Border: A Tale of the Plains by Randall Parrish

"I'll just lie on the floor and curl up like a puppy and go to s'eep.
— from A Little Mother to the Others by L. T. Meade

Then he reached the inclined surface of the rock and fell forward, all curled up like a man who is knocked out on the football field.
— from The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon; Or, A Search for Treasure by Wyn Roosevelt

She believed and asserted that a man had to be managed, and she had several maxims to which she often gave forcible and contemptuous utterance— "Let a man go his own road to-day and he will be shaking hands with the devil to-morrow.
— from Here are Ladies by James Stephens

Isabella was fast asleep, curled up like a cat and purring pleasantly, but Ferdinand was awake, meditatively gnawing through the wood-work of his stall.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 7, 1919. by Various

If ever there is a time for sententiousness it is when one is elderly, leisured and comfortable; that is the time to set down one's thoughts as they come, not inviting anybody to read them, but promising to those who do, that they will find a commentary upon life as it passes, either because it may be useful or because it may have been earned.
— from In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Maurice Hewlett

FOR A CHAFED UPPER LIP.—For a chafed upper lip and soreness of the end of the nose, such as generally accompanies a cold in the head or influenza, much relief may be found from the homely remedy of greasing the excoriation, at night on going to bed, with a bit of mutton tallow (that of a candle will do) held to the fire to soften.
— from Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book, 3rd ed. A Useful Guide for Large or Small Families, Containing Directions for Cooking, Preserving, Pickling... by Eliza Leslie

It is a rare and beautiful subject, remarkably distinct and pleasing; it is perfectly hardy, also perennial and herbaceous; but its last-named characteristic should be qualified, inasmuch as the old leaves remain in good form and colour until long after the new ones are fully grown, so that there are always two sets of foliage.
— from Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. by J. G. (John George) Wood