So on he went, up hill and down dale; and sang and jumped to his heart's content.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

No man thinks right, whilst he is in it; blinded as he must be, with his congenial humours, and drawn differently aside, as the bishop and myself have been, with too lax or too tense a fibre—Reason is, half of it, Sense; and the measure of heaven itself is but the measure of our present appetites and concoctions.— —But which of the two, in the present case, do you think to be mostly in the wrong?
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Hot and dry, discussing; applied to the womb, it hastens both birth and after-birth, applied to the navel it stays the strangling of the womb, commonly called the fits of the mother, helps pains in the sides, and difficulty of breathing, being applied to it, and the smell of it helps the vertigo or diziness in the head.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

There, learning that the latter was alive and high in favour with all the Romans and enquiring for his dwelling-place, he stationed himself before the door and there abode till such time as Titus came, to whom, by reason of the wretched plight wherein he was, he dared not say a word, but studied to cause himself be seen of him, so he might 501 recognize him and let call him to himself; wherefore Titus passed on, [without noting him,] and Gisippus, conceiving that he had seen and shunned him and remembering him of that which himself had done for him aforetime, departed, despiteful and despairing.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

The first were the two tinamous, which were not long in having a number of young ones; they had for companions half a dozen ducks, accustomed to the borders of the lake.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

This was the beginning of my being called Old Woman, and Little Old Woman, and Cobweb, and Mrs. Shipton, and Mother Hubbard, and Dame Durden, and so many names of that sort that my own name soon became quite lost among them.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

However, a deep drink all round soon restored the spirits of the mourners.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Buck had already dragged down a stray part-grown calf; but he wished strongly for larger and more formidable quarry, and he came upon it one day on the divide at the head of the creek.
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

And though I am clean Got off from Subtle, Surly, Mammon, Dol, Hot Ananias, Dapper, Drugger, all With whom I traded: yet I put my self On you, that are my country: and this pelf Which I have got, if you do quit me, rests To feast you often, and invite new guests.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

Thus it has been completely shown how all duties depend as regards the nature of the obligation (not the object of the action) on the same principle.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

Letterboxes, flowerpots, old boots, and bookshelves have all done duty, and I even remember a pair of robins, many years ago in Kent, bringing up two broods in an old rat trap which, fortunately too rusty to act, was still set and baited with a withered piece of bacon.
— from Birds in the Calendar by Frederick G. (Frederick George) Aflalo

The whip of the overseer quickens the servile labors whereby he—one of those priviliged beings born to consume the fruits of the earth—is sustained; and men, immortal as himself, are daily “driven a-field” like oxen and their strength taxed to the uttermost, perhaps, that he, their master, may add another race-horse to his stud or stake an additional bet upon a favorite game-cock.
— from The Hermitage, Home of Old Hickory by Stanley F. Horn

It was very rough going at times, the messenger having made his way in a direct line, up hill and down dale, and he had to return over the same ground lest he should lose the track and go astray.
— from Settlers and Scouts: A Tale of the African Highlands by Herbert Strang

A half-run race—a story cut off in the middle; for he was a young man still; his hair, all dusty, draggled, and bloodstained, had no streak of gray; his hands were smooth and youthful.
— from The Sowers by Henry Seton Merriman

( Enters with the Doctor and speaks with him aside ) Drive down a mile or so and wait for me.
— from The Americans by Edwin Davies Schoonmaker

But this was the children’s hour at Deep Dale, and the children’s feast—and wherever Helen chanced to be at that hour, there that meal was served.
— from The Invisible Foe A Story Adapted from the Play by Walter Hackett by Louise Jordan Miln

Their Excellencies divided the map of Europe according to the best interests of half a dozen dynasties and put "national aspirations" upon the Index, or list of forbidden books, together with all other dangerous "French doctrines.
— from The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon