The German lay upon the sofa sleeping stertorously with a strap round his upper arms and another round his legs.
— from His Last Bow: An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Kit walked about, now with quick steps and now with slow; now lingering as some rider slackened his horse’s pace and looked about him; and now darting at full speed up a bye-street as he caught a glimpse of some distant horseman going lazily up the shady side of the road, and promising to stop, at every door.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

,” said he to the peasant guide, “lead us to Shámshevo.”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Never having been there before and seeing all the folk run, they marvelled and hearing the cause, were for going to see what was toward; wherefore they laid up their baggage at an inn and Marchese said, 'We would fain go look upon this saint; but, for my part, I see not how we may avail to win thither, for that I understand the Cathedral place is full of German and other men-at-arms, whom the lord of this city hath stationed there, so no riot may betide; more by token that they say the church is so full of folk that well nigh none else might enter there.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

[154] This brief résumé of the general literature upon the social process and social interaction is introductory to an examination of the more concrete material upon communication, imitation, and suggestion.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Davies said, he was the first dramatick writer who introduced genteel ladies upon the stage.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

The feel of spring was in the air, the feel of growing life under the snow, of sap ascending in the trees, of buds bursting the shackles of the frost.
— from White Fang by Jack London

(All the Gascons leap up to see, but when he is close to Christian he controls himself and continues): . .
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

[101] There are few documents calculated to throw greater light upon the social and domestic life of our ancestors than their Household Books.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

By this time several of the rungs were on fire, and two or three broke as Bob stepped on them, but he managed to keep his hold, and, reaching the 117 ground, looked up to see Jack half way down.
— from The Golden Boys and Their New Electric Cell by L. P. (Levi Parker) Wyman

And in this moment my wandering gaze lighted upon the shadowy outline of a gate that opened in the hedge upon my right hand, upon a rolling meadow with a gloom of shadowy trees beyond.
— from Peregrine's Progress by Jeffery Farnol

He sayd, "You shoulde get some freckle-water of the lady that sent me here; depend on it, she hath washes and tinctures in plenty; and after all, Meg, she'll come to the same end at last, and be as the lady all bone and skin, whose ghastlie legend used to scare thee soe when thou wert a child.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. III, No. XVII, October 1851 by Various

Guevara listened until the scientists had finished, then he smiled.
— from The Flaming Mountain: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

If this Tobacco turned out good in quality and no great quantity comes home for six months I still flatter myself there will be no great loss upon the Sales.
— from A Portrait of Old George Town by Grace Dunlop Peter

Jesus and Gotama laboured under the same difficulty: they knew more than was translatable into language, or communicable to their followers.
— from The Metaphysic of Christianity and Buddhism: A Symphony by D. M. (Dawsonne Melanchthon) Strong

An analytical comparison of the water of the districts in which this malady prevails might throw great light upon the subject, and be of much service to a portion of mankind, who, though happily not very numerous, are well worthy of compassion on account of their sufferings.
— from The Desultory Man Collection of Ancient and Modern British Novels and Romances. Vol. CXLVII. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

It throws a horrible yet also a grotesque light upon the savage manners of the time to find that the chamber in which she was confined, had secret provision for an espionnage of the most base kind, openings made in the walls through which everything that took place in the room, every proceeding of the unfortunate prisoner, could be spied upon and every word heard.
— from Jeanne D'Arc: Her Life And Death by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

These Pincers being held by a Servant, the Surgeon passeth a Needle with wax'd Thread, into the Flesh, below the Vessel, bringing it back again, and with the two ends of the Thread makes a good Ligature upon the same Vessel; then he looseth the Gripe-Stick and the Band, the Stump is to be somewhat bended, and the Flesh let down to cover the Bones.
— from The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by M. (Charles Gabriel) Le Clerc