Muhigdà lang ug magdaut nang tawhána tungud sa kakusug sa íyang nigusyu, That man’s business is so good that he barely has time to rest.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The fellow, acting on impulse of curiosity, stepped to my side and to his undoing, for as he leaned to peer over the eaves I grasped him by his throat and his pistol arm and threw him heavily to the roof.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

With indescribable anxiety we waited for the decisive moment—saw the sinking man stretch out his hands towards the rake, but he failed to grasp it, and at the same moment disappeared under the mill, never to be seen again.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Formerly, too, tyrannies were more common than now, on account of the very extensive powers with which some magistrates were entrusted: as the prytanes at Miletus; for they were supreme in many things of the last consequence; and also because at that time the cities were not of that very great extent, the people in general living in the country, and being employed in husbandry, which gave them, who took the lead in public affairs, an opportunity, if they had a turn for war, to make themselves tyrants; which they all did when they had gained the confidence of the people; and this confidence was their hatred to the rich.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

And the other poor soul—to escape a nominal shame which was owing to the weakness of her character, degrading herself to the real shame of bondage to a tyrant who scorned her—a man whom to avoid for ever was her only chance of salvation… This is our parish church, isn't it?
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

The vicomte appreciated this silent praise and smiling gratefully prepared to continue, but just then Anna Pávlovna, who had kept a watchful eye on the young man who so alarmed her, noticed that he was talking too loudly and vehemently with the abbé, so she hurried to the rescue.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

and earlier, to raise himself to the rank of a gentleman by obtaining a grant of arms.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

She should have taken the right, but ever afterward she counted it the most fortunate mistake of her life.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

She threw herself in reverse upon the Frankland before she had time to raise herself, seized with her mouth the wonderful clitoris, called upon me to fuck her from behind, and then with fingers up arsehole and cunt worked furiously.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

On October 21 he won a brisk battle outside the walls of Auberoche before the more sluggish part of his army had time to reach the scene of action.
— from The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by T. F. (Thomas Frederick) Tout

Permit me to offer you my sincere thanks!" I caught her outstretched hands and wrung them hard—so hard that the rings she wore must have dug into her flesh and hurt her, though she was too well-bred to utter any exclamation.
— from Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten by Marie Corelli

Procopius praises his temper, to reproach him with calm and deliberate cruelty: but in the conspiracies which attacked his authority and person, a more candid judge will approve the justice, or admire the clemency, of Justinian.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Edward Gibbon

Captain George Etherington, who was in command, heard that the Indians were on the war-path and that the fort was threatened; but he treated the report lightly.
— from The War Chief of the Ottawas : A chronicle of the Pontiac war by Thomas Guthrie Marquis

Grace warned him about the inclination of the hillside to the rocks and stopped at the bottom of the crag.
— from The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" by Harold Bindloss

It seemed to her that the ringing went to her heart with a sharp stab, that the fire would never be over, that Sasha was lost....
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He bore her to the remoter and more sheltered part of the portico, and leaned over her, that he might shield her, with his own form, from the lightning and the showers!
— from The Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

One more hideous than the rest was evidently Pizarro, and by his side stood the priest Vicente de Yalverde.
— from Manco, the Peruvian Chief Or, An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas by William Henry Giles Kingston

“What did I do with my gun?” cried Giraffe, darting around this way and that, as he tried to remember in which corner he had stacked his rifle, after coming in earlier in the night, from the bear hunt.
— from The Boy Scouts on the Trail; or, Scouting through the Big Game Country by Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917

But as he turned to run he came face to face with Jake, who had sprung up to see.
— from Over the Border: A Novel by Herman Whitaker