It has gone far and wide, and high and low, and left scarcely a mortal roof unvisited.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Not without a sense of pleasure did Chichikov take her hand as, lisping a little, she declared that she and her husband were equally gratified by his coming, and that, of late, not a day had passed without her husband recalling him to mind.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

The two sisters in the house opposite danced in the ballet at the opera, and worked as milliners in their spare time; next door was a comic singer at Cremorne; and beyond him again lived a leading star and his wife—who was a singing chambermaid, both at the Victoria.
— from A Search For A Secret: A Novel. Vol. 2 by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

After sitting some time, Mrs. Crabtree insisted on their having some dinner in her cottage; so making Harry and Laura sit down on each side of a large blazing fire, she cooked some most delicious pancakes for them in rapid succession, as fast as they could eat, tossing them high in the air first, and then rolling up each as it was fried, with a large spoonful of jam in the centre, till Harry and Laura at last said, that unless Mrs. Crabtree supplied fresh appetites, she need make no more pancakes, for they thought even Peter Grey himself could scarcely have finished all she provided.
— from Holiday House: A Series of Tales by Catherine Sinclair

She also is said to have kept her house at Ludlow; and Leland says, that Tekenhill, a house in those parts, built for Prince Arthur, was prepared for her.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 89, July 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Lefty Joe, like a pirate in a tale, took this weapon between his teeth; allowed his squat, heavy bulk to swing down and dangle at arm's length for an instant, and then he swung himself a little and landed softly on the floor of the car.
— from Gunman's Reckoning by Max Brand

His heart gave a great leap as she moved towards him and looked a little shyly into his face.
— from The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

"I daresay he's bold enough to take a bishopric," she said to herself; "but fortunately we've got that in our own hands as long as Lord Shaftesbury lives;" and Miss Leonora smiled grimly over the prerogatives of her party.
— from The Perpetual Curate by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The hills are lower and less steep, there is more cultivation, and the villages and towns look more prosperous.
— from The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson

Burns, bard of the brave and fervent soul, destined to move humanity as long as language shall endure; as long as the love of liberty, of independence, of fearless honesty, or patriotic courage, shall have a refuge in our world.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1, July 1850 by Various