‘Wery good power o’ suction, Sammy,’ said Mr. Weller the elder, looking into the pot, when his first-born had set it down half empty.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The idea of the appellation is taken from a led horse, many of which for magnificence appear in the retinues of great personages on solemn occasions, such as processions, &c. CAPTAIN COPPERTHORNE'S CREW.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

He heard something like the gentle patter of several drops of rain on the plank which covered him.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

A mattock cannot be struck against the most mouldering tumble-down tower but out pops, from some cranny or loophole, the gray pate of some superannuated hanger-on, who has lived at John’s expense all his life, and makes the most grievous outcry at their pulling down the roof from over the head of a worn-out servant of the family.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

SYN: Breed, generate, produce, originate, spread, extend, expand, disseminate, diffuse, increase, multiply, promulgate, propound, broach.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The innkeeper when he saw him go without paying him ran to get payment of Sancho, who said that as his master would not pay neither would he, because, being as he was squire to a knight-errant, the same rule and reason held good for him as for his master with regard to not paying anything in inns and hostelries.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And she's got plenty of sense.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It almost looks like a great plateful of spiders jumping about in a crowd.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

He did not long survive her, but died in the following year, and was buried with great pomp by the grateful priests of St. Jacques de la Boucherie.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

The guiding principles of selection have been aptness of design and a rich variety of effect .
— from Woman in Sacred History A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical, and Legendary Sources by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The day before it is required, place half a teacupful of hominy in a basin with 1 pint of water and a good pinch of salt.
— from The Economical Jewish Cook: A Modern Orthodox Recipe Book for Young Housekeepers by Edith B. Cohen

About 2200 B.C. it had overrun a great part of Sumeria, and Akkad fell to the invading bands of Amorites.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Atrebates to Bedlis Vol. 1 Part 3 by Various

"You are like the boy who has found a good piece of skating over a sheet of fine, smooth ice, and takes to complaining because it won't break and let him down into the cold water.
— from The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Francis Lynde