he articulated, making a desperate effort to raise his eyes and to smile.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The nations of Germany which dwell in this province, near the sources of the Rhine, are the Nemetes 2985 , the Triboci 2986 , and the Vangiones 2987 ; nearer again 2988 , the Ubii 2989 , the Colony 2990 of Agrippina, the Cugerni 2991 , the Batavi 2992 , and the peoples whom we have already mentioned as dwelling on the islands of the Rhine.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

‘Go away!’ said Miss Betsey, shaking her head, and making a distant chop in the air with her knife.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

He also makes a difference between raguly, which is the conventional form universally adopted, and raguled and trunked, where the ordinary takes the representation of the trunk of a tree with the branches lopped; but these and many others that he gives are refinements of idea which personally I should never expect to find in actual use, and of the instances of which I am unaware.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Jokul sat down upon a bank, and a man swung the axe to execute him; but Jokul hearing the sound, raised his head, and the blow struck him in the head, and made a dreadful wound.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran’s house that morning.”
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

Dumbfoundered, as though he had been caught in the act of a crime, he gazed helplessly at Meier, and did not know what to say.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The scholar joined his hands and made a deep bow.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

He only became a sociable being on holidays, on which occasions he would spend his time with his friends in some tavern, coming home at midnight as drunk as a lord and singing verses from Tasso.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

With a great muscular effort Bob, dropping his stick, now useless to him, shortened his arm and struck his assailant behind the ear, at the same time raising his wounded arm to protect his head and making a dash forward to break through the ring.
— from Kobo: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Herbert Strang

The idea struck him at once, 'Here are Mahoney and Dr. Cronin, great friends,' and afterward he said to Mahoney: 'Do you know Cronin well?'
— from The Crime of the Century; Or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin by Henry M. Hunt

While these epoch-making events have stamped the cause of the Allies with the seal of supreme moral sanction, they have also made assurance doubly sure that the end of the war will confer upon the world a lasting peace based upon real justice and equity.
— from Armenia and the War by A. P. (Avetoon Pesak) Hacobian

Sitting by the crackling twigs which drove away the cool airs of the autumn night with their inspiring warmth, the young man, whose early fortunes we have thus far endeavored to narrate, leaned his head upon his hand, and mused and dreamed.
— from The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by John Esten Cooke

Then the leopard feared for her supper, and glided swiftly and stealthily away with it towards the woods, and the very next moment horses and men and dogs came helter-skelter past the window, and followed her full cry.
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

They have their ash-pans and their brooms, To purge the chapel and the rooms; Their many mumbling mass-priests here, And many a dapper chorister.
— from A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick by Robert Herrick

There was not a bit of whisker to be seen; and as to moustache, not a lad could show half as much as Dick, while his wouldn’t have made a respectable eyebrow for a little girl of four.
— from Draw Swords! In the Horse Artillery by George Manville Fenn

The Highlanders took post behind a hedge and maintained a desperate resistance to the advance of the enemy.
— from True to the Old Flag: A Tale of the American War of Independence by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

She asked her after me: and Dorcas left her, drying her red-swoln eyes at her glass; [no design of moving me by tears!] sighing too sensibly for my courage.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Samuel Richardson