Then the Kurilovka peasants presented Masha with an ikon, and the Dubechnia peasants gave her a large cracknel and a gilt salt-cellar.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The first has a long creeping and jointed root, sending forth tufts at each joint, from which joints rise long, flat, slender, knotted stalks, even to the top of the water, divided towards the top into many branches, each carrying two leaves on both sides, being about two [40] inches long, and half an inch broad, thin and almost transparent; they look as though they were torn; the flowers are long, thick, and whitish, set together almost like a bunch of grapes, which being gone, there succeed, for the most part, sharp pointed grains all together, containing a small white kernel in them.
— 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

much thicker than Miss Anne's; and, in short, her civility rendered her quite as anxious to be left to walk with Mr Elliot as Anne could be, and it was discussed between them with a generosity so polite and so determined, that the others were obliged to settle it for them; Miss Elliot maintaining that Mrs Clay had a little cold already, and Mr Elliot deciding on appeal, that his cousin Anne's boots were rather the thickest.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

This advice was a bitter potion to me, whom pride and resentment had rendered utterly incapable of the least submission to, or even of a reconciliation with, the wretch who had, on many occasions, treated me so inhumanly: however, I resolved to have as little connection as possible with him, and to ingratiate myself as much as I could with the rest of the officers, whose friendship might be a bulwark to defend me from the attempts of his malice.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

They had not yet had a loud conversation among the men and a dispute about something important and clever.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Hereupon a lamentable cry arose among the spectators, as if the servant had spilled the blood on purpose in that place; and as the king heard that cry, he inquired what was the cause of it; and while nobody durst tell him, he pressed them so much the more to let him know what was the matter; so at length, when he had threatened them, and forced them to speak out, they told; whereupon he burst into tears, and groaned, and said, "So I perceive I am not like to escape the all-seeing eye of God, as to the great crimes I have committed; but the vengeance of the blood of my kinsman pursues me hastily.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

And he gave her five guineas.—She made him a low courtesy, and thanking him, looked to me, as if she would have spoken to me.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

And when the Jewish deserters accused him, Demetrius was so far from giving credit to them, that when he petitioned him that he would demand no more than three hundred talents for the tribute of all Judea, and the three toparchies of Samaria, and Perea, and Galilee, he complied with the proposal, and gave him a letter confirming all those grants; whose contents were as follows: "King Demetrius to Jonathan his brother, and to the nation of the Jews, sendeth greeting.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Raskolnikov followed her and Lebeziatnikov came after him.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

‘This is the hend, is it,’ said Miss Squeers, tossing her head, and looking contemptuously at the floor, ‘of my taking notice of that rubbishing creature, and demeaning myself to patronise her?’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

When he was little, 't would be on a cricket, with his head in her lap, and saying his verses; and she would tell him of his pious mother, who had a lovely countenance, and who died young, being willing to go; or of his father, who mourned himself into the grave, for the loss of his dear young wife.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

They , too, have gone through the like: they had as little chance as their children.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

However, he at last consented, and ordered two couches to be placed side by side with a large magnet between them.
— from Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton

The pedants are much exercised over this, but as the federal prince in question was a parricide, he had a lupinum caput, and so even a savage could without outraging orthodox feelings wreak the law on him.
— from Ancient China Simplified by Edward Harper Parker

Even if you ain't a sailor man I'd like to see him as could handle a little craft any better.
— from The Search for the Silver City: A Tale of Adventure in Yucatan by James Otis

He did not look up when the boy and his captors rode past him, but pulled the handkerchief a little closer about his face, and sinking his chin lower into the collar of his coat, kept his eyes fastened upon the ground.
— from Julian Mortimer: A Brave Boy's Struggle for Home and Fortune by Harry Castlemon

The defensive arms of the Roman soldier were simply a small light helmet, a light cuirass, and greaves, or boots bound with brass.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various

They wore triple-crested helmets and leather cuirasses, as if they were on hostile soil and feared treachery.
— from Sónnica by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

As for the little lord, it must be owned that he took after his father in the matter of learning, liked marbles and play and sport best, and enjoyed marshalling the village boys, of whom he had a little court; already flogging them, and domineering over them with a fine imperious spirit that made his father laugh when he beheld it, and his mother fondly warn him.
— from Boys and Girls from Thackeray by Kate Dickinson Sweetser