" He examined the jar on all sides; he shook it to see if it would rattle.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

This day I hear at dinner that Don John of Austria, since his flight out of Portugall, is dead of his wounds:—[not
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Had there been any strong mind to oppose, half the peers would have followed him like a flock of sheep, but there was none; and they now all eagerly, and almost turbulently, pronounced judgment against John of Anjou, sentencing him unanimously to forfeiture of all his feofs, and every pain inflicted on high felony.
— from Philip Augustus; or, The Brothers in Arms by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Now the post-boy, on a jibbing or a shying horse, curses the evil hour of his birth, and is ingloriously assisted by the shabby hostler out of place, who is walking down with seven shabby companions, more or less equine, open to the various chances of the road.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

All round the room big barrels stood against the walls, fastened at the bottom so they wouldn’t tumble with the rolling of the ship; and above the barrels, pewter jugs of all sizes hung from wooden pegs.
— from The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

You can just go yourself, Janey Odell, and see how you like it!"
— from A Little Girl in Old New York by Amanda M. Douglas

[159] sounded, mingled with the jingling of a sword, “here comes the cat.”
— from The Dreadnought Boys Aboard a Destroyer by John Henry Goldfrap

She untied the bag, and took Jhore out, and seeing his long hair, she said, “How is it that your hair has grown so long?”
— from Santal Folk Tales by Campbell, A., of the Santal mission

'The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, [saith he,] that thou shouldest know his will, and see that just one, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth' (Acts 22:14).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Yet the greatest distance that we ever travelled in one day was forty miles, and we employed thirty-five days in a journey of about six hundred and fifty miles, at an average perhaps of nineteen miles a day.
— from A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809 In Which is Included, Some Account of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart. K. C. to the Court of Persia by James Justinian Morier