,’ replied Jackson, drawing her a little on one side; ‘don’t be frightened, Mrs. Bardell.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Every servant in the family, from high to low, wish’d Tom success; and I can fancy, an’ please your honour, I see him this moment with his white dimity waist-coat and breeches, and hat a little o’ one side, passing jollily along the street, swinging his stick, with a smile and a chearful word for every body
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

we gave Comowooll alias Connia, a cirtificate of his good conduct and the friendly intercourse which he has maintained with us during our residence at this place; we also gave him a list of our names.do not.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Finally, then, during those three days, Don Quixote and Sancho provided themselves with what they considered necessary, and Sancho having pacified his wife, and Don Quixote his niece and housekeeper, at nightfall, unseen by anyone except the bachelor, who thought fit to accompany them half a league out of the village, they set out for El Toboso, Don Quixote on his good Rocinante and Sancho on his old Dapple, his alforjas furnished with certain matters in the way of victuals, and his purse with money that Don Quixote gave him to meet emergencies.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Ornithology To obtain a merit badge for Ornithology a scout must 1. Have a list of one hundred different kinds of birds personally observed on exploration in the field.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

It was carried thence to the American Consulate in Kanagawa, where Clarke and Marshall had found refuge and surgical aid at the hands of Dr Hepburn and later on of Dr Jenkins, our other doctor.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

At least, with such an air of superiority, as if she had a less opinion of his judgment than her own.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Think what it must have been to wake up in the midst of that voiceless hush, and, look out over that grim congregation of the dead!
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

He sauntered along, wearing his hat a little on one side, with a light jaunty step, swinging his big stick, humming to himself, looking up from time to time at the houses and gardens on either side of him with superb, smiling patronage.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Two days later the Nabob received a note from Hemerlingue, almost undecipherable with its little fly-tracks, complicated by abbreviations more or less commercial, behind which the ex-sutler concealed his absolute lack of orthography: " Mon ch / anc / cam /—Je
— from The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Alphonse Daudet

Long before Sir Walter Raleigh was thought of, there is reason to believe herbs and leaves of one kind or other—coltsfoot, yarrow, mouse-lax, sword-grass, dandelion, and other plants, and even dried cow-dung—were smoked for one ailment or other, and in some instances for relaxation and pleasure, and thus, no doubt, became habitually used.
— from Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings

“No; certainly not,” replied Hazel, for Mr Chute was gazing at her in his peculiarly irritating way, his head a little on one side and his nose pointing, as if he meant to have an answer out of her if it was not soon forthcoming.
— from The New Mistress: A Tale by George Manville Fenn

[103] The spinsters, carders, fullers, weavers, who, Unfit for other life, compell'd by hunger And lack of other means, in desperate manner 35 Daring the event to the teeth, are all in uproar, And danger serves among them.
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9] by William Shakespeare

Business done, as "Toby, M.P.," puts it—four landings, six pulls, two fish hooked and lost, one of them, of course, the fish of this or any other season.
— from Lines in Pleasant Places: Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by William Senior

Once outside, the servants summoned by the passing maid without a bell being rung, and quick, quick, let all this luggage be taken down into the hall, and let one of you call a cab.
— from Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad

At any rate I shall not leave you;" and taking her a little out of the jostling crowd he kneeled and bound up the burned foot with his handkerchief.
— from Barriers Burned Away by Edward Payson Roe

Proselytes from other and hostile creeds trooped over with hosannas and loud outcries of rejoicing.
— from Sundry Accounts by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

The family belonged to the middle-classes, and despised the debaucheries of the higher and lower orders of the people.
— from Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business by D. W. (David W.) Bartlett