" Captain Jim had an ice boat, and many a wild, glorious spin Gilbert and Anne and Leslie had over the glib harbor ice with him.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

‘Your employer, you know,’ said Mr. Dick, jogging his arm as a gentle reminder.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Adieu, charming Josephine; one of these nights the door will be burst open with a bang, as if by a jealous husband, and in a moment I shall be in your arms.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

Returning now to Rome, under these auspices, and with a great reputation, after enjoying a triumph for victories over the Jews, he added eight consulships 749 to his former one.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Connect these channels and fill them with a mixture of lime and oil; then, rub the joints hard and make them compact.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Ruins and basilicas, palaces and colossi, set in the midst of a sordid present, where all that was living and warm-blooded seemed sunk in the deep degeneracy of a superstition divorced from reverence; the dimmer but yet eager Titanic life gazing and struggling on walls and ceilings; the long vistas of white forms whose marble eyes seemed to hold the monotonous light of an alien world: all this vast wreck of ambitious ideals, sensuous and spiritual, mixed confusedly with the signs of breathing forgetfulness and degradation, at first jarred her as with an electric shock, and then urged themselves on her with that ache belonging to a glut of confused ideas which check the flow of emotion.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Whether they or their judges had any part in penning those laws, which they assumed the liberty of interpreting, and glossing upon at their pleasure?
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

We’ll usher him in with a merry din That shall gladden his joyous heart, And we’ll keep him up, while there’s bite or sup, And in fellowship good, we’ll part.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Yet though Homer may use a greater degree of liberty in one case, and a lesser in another, as to the mode of setting his jewels, he always adheres to the general laws of truth and nature as they address themselves to his poetical purpose.
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 3 of 3 I. Agorè: Polities of the Homeric Age. II. Ilios: Trojans and Greeks Compared. III. Thalassa: The Outer Geography. IV. Aoidos: Some Points of the Poetry of Homer. by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

“After having vented my sorrows for some time in this manner, I began to consider by what means I might possibly endeavour to retrieve this misfortune; when, reflecting on the great number of priests I had in my army, and on the prodigious force of superstition, a thought luckily suggested itself to me, to counterfeit that St James had appeared to me in a vision, and had promised me the victory.
— from The Works of Henry Fielding, vol. 11 A Journey From This World to the Next; and A Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding

He could not help wondering over that any more than Jane herself, a little while later, could help wondering.
— from Neighbours on the Green by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

No clump of juniper held a spy, and the Sergeant was at liberty to develop his plans.
— from The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Then the following conversation took place between young Jack Harkaway and his comrade Harry Girdwood.
— from Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series by Bracebridge Hemyng

Just, however, as his foot reached the plate of the roller-bolt, another growl from Valentine frightened him backwards, when falling upon one of the old horse-keepers, he knocked him fairly down, and rolled over him heavily.
— from The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems by Various

He has just had an interview with his highness, here, in my house.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

Sometimes Ted and Jan helped around the kitchen by drying the dishes or helping set the table or clear it off.
— from The Curlytops on Star Island; Or, Camping out with Grandpa by Howard Roger Garis

Mrs. Joslin had an infant two years old in her arms, and was expecting every hour to give birth to another child.
— from King Philip Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

They finally started for the house; and when they saw their mamma standing at the dining-room window watching, Pet and Milly joined hands, and ran as fast as they could towards home: they could not tell exactly why, except that they felt like it.
— from The Cricket's Friends: Tales Told by the Cricket, Teapot, and Saucepan by Virginia W. (Virginia Wales) Johnson