“Why, I say, Huish,” Morrison cried gaily, a little later on, “what a canting humbug you are!
— from A Double Knot by George Manville Fenn

One day, hearing that the poor Clares were without fuel, she ran into the country, and getting a large log of wood, laid it on her shoulder, and carried it through the streets to their door.
— from The Lives of the Saints, Volume 02 (of 16): February by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

The skirts of their greatcoats are like lumps of wood, jumping about on the yellow crust that reaches to their knees.
— from Under Fire: The Story of a Squad by Henri Barbusse

The style is undoubtedly a bad one, whether it be compared with the great works of Greek and Latin literature or with our own estimate of excellence in speech.
— from The Letters of Cassiodorus Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Senator Cassiodorus

When Geoffrey at length leaned over with a warning to point out the figure of a man, who was proceeding down a side path with a dog at his heels, the old Dutchman replied by touching the shoulder nearest him and saying: "Dost feel the smart of that wound yet?"
— from The Plowshare and the Sword: A Tale of Old Quebec by John Trevena

The butler and Craven gained a large landing on which was displayed a remarkable collection of oriental china.
— from December Love by Robert Hichens

This place was of course famous for the British attack in 1915, and for the German counter-attack with gas a little later on which was all too successful.
— from Q.6.a and Other places: Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918 by Francis Buckley

On the other parte, thei suffre their heare to growe at lengthe like our women: whiche thei deuide into two tresses, or braudes, and bryng aboute to fasten behinde their eares.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Richard Hakluyt