Just except a little drop for the likes of you and—and——” “And you couldn’t wash yourself,” interrupted his companion gravely, staring up at his grimy visage.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by either shoulder, and looking eagerly into his face.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

SYN: Multitude, crowd, throng, cluster, host, mass, press, posse, bevy, flock, troop, drove, herd, horde, crew, gang, shoal, army, host, regiment, myriad, inundation.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Then one of the Captains sent this bloody Tyrant into the Province of Bogata , to inquire who succeeded that Prince there, whom he so barbarously and inhumanely Murder'd, who traveling many miles in this Countrey, took as many Indians as he could get, some of which, because they did not tell him who was Successor of this Deceased Prince, had their Hands cut off, and others were exposed to hunger- starv'd Currs, to be devour'd by them, and as many of them perished miserably.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

Look, here comes good Sir John.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

" His comrade grunted stubbornly.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

If only he could get some sort of a job before he went—if that last boss had only been willing to try him!
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

It seemed next to impossible that Lawrence should leave the book unopened, but if he had opened it he would have seen the leaf, and not knowing how to read he would have kept it in his pocket till he could get someone to tell him the contents, and thus all would have been strangled at its birth.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

H2 anchor THE BEAR CHARACTERS ELENA IVANOVNA POPOVA, a landowning little widow, with dimples on her cheeks GRIGORY STEPANOVITCH SMIRNOV, a middle-aged landowner LUKA, Popova’s aged footman
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d His canon ’gainst self-slaughter.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Evidently Ṣubḥ-i-Ezel has changed greatly since the time when both the brothers (half-brothers) were devoted, heart and soul, to the service of the Bāb.
— from The Reconciliation of Races and Religions by T. K. (Thomas Kelly) Cheyne

Hopalong watched him go and then went to the nearest place where he could get something to eat.
— from The Coming of Cassidy—And the Others by Clarence Edward Mulford

O Henry C. Gifford Silver Islet Algoma O Silverstream, W. O. Victoria N B Baptiste Guimond * Simcoe Woodhouse Norfolk, N.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1872 by Canada. Post Office Department

The statement of a telephone operator, that "everything gives way to trunks," is said to have caused great satisfaction in the elephant house at the Zoo.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 7, 1919. by Various

The constables, however, could give Selectman Sproul some news.
— from The Skipper and the Skipped: Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day

Year after year his convictions gathered strength, till at last "the god within him" burst forth, and he denounced the penal code of Protestant England as "A system full of coherence and consistency; well digested and well composed in all its parts, a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man."
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

One of their own bombs could hardly have created greater surprise had it been fired in the midst of them.
— from The Gully of Bluemansdyke, and Other stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

On narrow theatres, new forests have been planted; inundations of flowing streams restrained by heavy walls of masonry and other constructions; torrents compelled to aid, by depositing the slime with which they are charged, in filling up lowlands, and [Pg 45] raising the level of morasses which their own overflows had created; ground submerged by the encroachments of the ocean, or exposed to be covered by its tides, has been rescued from its dominion by diking; [30] swamps and even lakes have been drained, and their beds brought within the domain of agricultural industry; drifting coast dunes have been checked and made productive by plantation; seas and inland waters have been repeopled with fish, and even the sands of the Sahara have been fertilized by artesian fountains.
— from Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

"He thinks that the storm may have caused great suffering among the poor people, so we are going to send our box with him, instead of waiting to send it by boat in June.
— from Gerda in Sweden by Etta Blaisdell McDonald