The hunters lie in wait about such springs, and, so runs the report, on the animals coming down to drink they are able to guess with tolerable certainty from external signs which of the monkeys will afford the Guliga, and they forthwith shoot such with their sumpitans.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

But I could not look in your eyes, And you could not look in my eyes, For such sorrow was ours—the beginning of gray in your hair.
— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

Woe unto us, not her; for she sleeps well: The fickle reek of popular breath, the tongue Of hollow counsel, the false oracle, Which from the birth of monarchy hath rung
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Well showed the elder lady's mien That courts and cities she had seen; Ellen, though more her looks displayed The simple grace of sylvan maid, In speech and gesture, form and face, Showed she was come of gentle race.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

"Wake up!" When Becky wakened, and she sat upright staring aghast, her face still smudged with traces of tears, beside her stood a little figure in a luxurious wadded robe of crimson silk.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

When these travelers had finally passed she sighed and raised the pañuelo an instant to see how far she still was from the town.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

After making him as comfortable as she could, she ran to the king’s palace, and told his chief servants that she was again in a position to supply the palace with flowers; so she was restored to her former office as the flower-woman of the royal household.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

" Away went George, his nerves quivering with excitement at the news so long looked for, so sudden when it came.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

"Funny," Smullyan said, with one of his disconcerting returns to a professional manner, "all the other forms seemed perfectly healthy.
— from Once a Greech by Evelyn E. Smith

With the exception of water for saddle stock, which we hoisted from a well, there was no hope of watering the herd before reaching Mr. Booth's ranch on the Frio.
— from A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams

Two engineer officers with fifty stout sappers, who each had a rose-noble for every quarter of an hour's work, got on to the breach in front of the sand-hill, and threw up a small breastwork, strengthened by palisades, across it.
— from By England's Aid; Or, the Freeing of the Netherlands, 1585-1604 by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

To some extent, therefore, Brother Warner's membership in that denomination afforded him light that naturally led to the full Scriptural standard which he afterward taught.
— from Birth of a Reformation; Or, The Life and Labors of Daniel S. Warner by A. L. (Andrew L.) Byers

Weird , sb. fate, S3; see Werd .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

They had thought to see a woman weak and pale, her eyes still red with grief, her face still stained with tears, one who had been tamed by misfortune, hunger, and the fear of death, whence she had bought herself by marriage with her conqueror.
— from Morning Star by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Doc Carson and Connie Bennett were shinnying down one of the corner uprights of a bare frame, several scouts were piling some odds and ends, and Blythe, anxious as usual to get the camp-fire started, was gathering chips and small bits of waste lumber for that purpose.
— from Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

“Well, that beats the devil,” said the grocery man, as he stood in front of his grocery and saw the bad boy coming along, on the way home from Sunday school, with a clean shirt on, and a testament and some dime novels under his arm.
— from Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa 1883 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

One by one Inez turned the motionless forms, still the face she sought was not to be found.
— from Inez: A Tale of the Alamo by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

'He is but a simple fool,' she said, with a laugh; 'but in another month I shall have the last of his money, and then thou and I shall go away quietly.
— from Pâkia 1901 by Louis Becke