He went on at first like a mere automaton, without thought or wish; therefore the goloshes had no opportunity to display their magic power.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I think I have told you that Walter is sweeping the firmament with a feather like a maypole and indenting the pavement with a sword like a scythe—in other words, he has become a whiskered hussar in the 18th Dragoons.” Before the receipt of this most obliging letter, however, I had determined to look to no leading bookseller for a launch, but to throw my work before the public at my own risk, and let it sink or swim according to its merits.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

I thought how the same feeling had come back when I saw a face looking at me, and a hand waving to me from a stage-coach window; and how it had come back again and had flashed about me like lightning, when I had passed in a carriage—not alone—through a sudden glare of light in a dark street.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

They again bade each other farewell, lingered a moment, and then parted.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

When I saw his worn young face looking at me as if he were sorry, I put my hand on his shoulder and said, "If you please, my dear Richard, do not speak in such a tone to me.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Then, again, the excess of water discharging itself into the plains near the sea forms lakes, and marshes, and reed-grounds, supplying the reeds with which all kinds of platted vessels are woven; some of these vessels are capable of holding water, when covered over with asphaltus; others are used with the material in its natural state.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

But Pyotr Stepanovitch probably imagined that he had not gone far enough and that he must exert himself further to flatter Lembke and make a complete conquest of him.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Thus they fought long and mightily, and anon, after brief rest fell to again, and so hurtled together like two wild boars that they both rolled to the ground.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

This done, I went downstairs to the sitting-room, in which I expected to find Laura and Marian awaiting my return from the Opera.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

So the father set his face like a mask and brought down his hand on the rail of the porch.
— from Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale

Stand on your feet like a man and take your luck….
— from The Cinema Murder by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

“You must, at any rate, consume all sorts of subsistence on the higher Lippe, Paderborn, and Warsburg; you must destroy everything which you cannot consume, so as to make a desert of all Westphalia, from Lipstadt and Munster, as far as the Rhine, on one hand: and on the other, from the higher Lippe and Paderborn, as far as Cassel; that the enemy may find it quite impracticable to direct their march to the Rhine, or the lower Roer; and this with regard to your army, and with regard to the army under M. de Soubise, that they may not have it in their power to take possession of Cassel, and much less to march to Marburg, or to the quarters which he will have along the Lahn, or to those which you will occupy, from the lower part of the left side of the Roer, and on the right side of the Rhine, as far as Dusseldorp, and at Cologne.”— “You know the necessity of consuming or destroying, as far as is possible, all the subsistence, especially the forage betwixt the Weser and the Rhine on the one hand, and on the other betwixt the Lippe, the bishopric of Paderborn, the Dymel, the Fulda, and the Nerra; and so to make a desert of Westphalia and Hesse.”—
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

"Then keep her so, my man, whilst I goes forrard and has a smoke," was the startling rejoinder from the old reprobate, who calmly commenced to suit the action to the word, and disappeared up by the forecastle, lighting a match as he went.
— from Harper's Round Table, February 4, 1896 by Various

In the clear fresh air he felt like a man awaked from a nightmare, and restored to cheerful life again.
— from Beside Still Waters by Arthur Christopher Benson

I know not how or why, but there certainly is an irresistible charm, that floats like a mist around Spanish creoles; indeed, creoles of all nations have a style of fascination peculiarly their own, which renders them truly bewitching, with the power of retaining their spells as long, and as strong as any.
— from Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

without knowing its source, that he knew was noble—was first that Mariquita did in fact live and move and have her being, as nominally all His creatures do, in the Master of that vanished convent life.
— from Mariquita: A Novel by John Ayscough

“There’s history and literature and foreign languages and mathematics and sciences and music and art and philosophy and a lot more—all of them fascinating and all important.”
— from Peggy Finds the Theatre by Virginia Hughes