And our groanes Under Syons ruines bury?
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Margaret went up into the old nursery at the very top of the house, where Newton was busy getting up some laces which were required for the wedding.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

“This by itself is enough for us to go upon, sir, with that sort of man,” said the Chief Inspector, with returning composure.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

They could get us some help.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

“Well,” began Ivan Ivanitch, getting up, “so you will stay. . . .”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Whenever Tess lifted her head she beheld always the great upgrown straw-stack, with the men in shirt-sleeves upon it, against the gray north sky; in front of it the long red elevator like a Jacob's ladder, on which a perpetual stream of threshed straw ascended, a yellow river running uphill, and spouting out on the top of the rick.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

bukug n 1 bone. 2 gun, usually sidearm (slang).
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Another time he woke up before daybreak lying on the ground under some bushes and could not at first understand how he had come there.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It stands in the corner of the poor field of wheat, which is full of great unsightly stumps, like earthy butchers’-blocks.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

It was a favourite device of the Emperor's, when he was in the wrong upon one point, to turn the conversation round so as to get upon some other one on which he was in the right.
— from Uncle Bernac: A Memory of the Empire by Arthur Conan Doyle

The value of such study is well expressed by Scudder in his "Literature in Schools" (pp. 54-56):— "The real point of practical reform, however, is not in the preference of American authors to English, but in the careful concentration of the minds of boys and girls upon standard American literature,
— from Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by Charles A. (Charles Alexander) McMurry

Grading the company streets and other necessary work will give us something to do for days to come.
— from Diary of an Enlisted Man by Lawrence Van Alstyne

"Could some fay the giftie gie us," said Wyn, smiling softly at him across the bed.
— from The Tree of Knowledge: A Novel by Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.

In the first place, because the movement cannot be given up so easily as those critics imagine who adopt this view; for it does not consist simply of explanations and theories 140 that might be completely refuted by rigorous argument, but a certain reality has been evolved, desires aroused, forces called into life, and movements inaugurated.
— from Life's Basis and Life's Ideal: The Fundamentals of a New Philosophy of Life by Rudolf Eucken

Therefore, as God has set some things in broad daylight; as he has given us some certain knowledge, though limited to a few things in comparison, probably as a taste of what intellectual creatures are capable of to excite in us a desire and endeavour after a better state: so, in the greatest part of our concernments, he has afforded us only the twilight, as I may so say, of probability; suitable, I presume, to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been pleased to place us in here; wherein, to check our over-confidence and presumption, we might, by every day's experience, be made sensible of our short-sightedness and liableness to error; the sense whereof might be a constant admonition to us, to spend the days of this our pilgrimage with industry and care, in the search and following of that way which might lead us to a state of greater perfection.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 by John Locke

“I christen thee Chescheela James Felton—may you become a good seaworthy craft, and not fill your skin with this stuff when you grow up,” said he dramatically.
— from The Mascot of Sweet Briar Gulch by Henry Wallace Phillips

While these obstacles were being cleared away, we carefully examined the little dock that had so often given us shelter in the hour of need; and I set a small party to work at the central Jebel el-Kibri't, which had been explored by the first Expedition.
— from The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Just as Thirlwall and Grote give us studies of Grecian history from the standpoint of Monarchism and Republicanism, so in the Kings and Chronicles we have studies of Hebrew history from a prophetic and priestly point of view.
— from The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by Richard Heber Newton