In an instant, I gave a sudden surge, and rose to my hands and knees.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

Nancy gave a shamefaced smile and rubbed her own eyes vigorously.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

He is given a short start and rides off at full speed, pursued by the whole troop.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Only Rischenheim gave a sudden sob and ran forward to where his cousin lay.
— from Rupert of Hentzau: From The Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim Sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope

So saying she stepped forward, and looking out, all at once gave a shrill scream, and rushed from the room, leaving her employer in his bolt-upright attitude gazing after her with as much astonishment as he was capable of.
— from Paul Prescott's Charge by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

At other times, and this perhaps more often when the eruption first appears on the head, its onset is more gradual, and slight scurfiness and redness at the top of the head are first noticed, and then a little crust forms there which is firmly adherent, and is, therefore, often not entirely removed as it should be, and thus bit by bit the mischief extends until its cure becomes tedious and troublesome.
— from The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by Charles West

At any rate our hero's steed gave a sudden spring, and, rushing through the opened ranks of the cadet horsemen ahead of him, sailed past Captain Dutton at a fast gait.
— from Dick Hamilton's Cadet Days; Or, The Handicap of a Millionaire's Son by Howard Roger Garis

Dodd ran his eye over it hastily, uttered a cry like a wounded lion, dropped it, gave a slight stagger, and rushed away.
— from Hard Cash by Charles Reade

'Perhaps,' the lips said laughingly; but the dark eyes gave a sweet silent answer Ralph did not see, though he was watching them.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 730 December 22, 1877 by Various

"So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how."
— from Parables of the Christ-life by I. Lilias (Isabella Lilias) Trotter