Though the look of joy upon Lady Audley's face was as brief as a flash of lightning on a summer sky, it was not unperceived by Robert.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The hankering which the Jews had for the idolatrous customs of the Heathens, is something exceedingly unaccountable; but so it was, that laying hold of the misconduct of Samuel’s two sons, who were entrusted with some secular concerns, they came in an abrupt and clamorous manner to Samuel, saying, Behold thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways, now make us a king to judge us like all other nations.
— from Common Sense by Thomas Paine

I jump up like a lunatic, walk about a bit, and lie down again, but as soon as I begin to get off to sleep there’s another pull!
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

She's just upstairs, looking after the young master's chocolate.
— from Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

"make us a King to judge us, like all the Nations," they signified that they would no more bee governed by the commands that should bee laid upon them by the Priest, in the name of God; but by one that should command them in the same manner that all other nations were commanded; and consequently in deposing the High Priest of Royall authority, they deposed that peculiar Government of God.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

“You just jump up, like a sweet lad, and get me an apple, to wet my pipe like.”
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

“I jumped up like a madman, and, as I was replacing on the fire that log which had saved me, the door opened hastily, and Julien came in.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

But the little man in the linen jacket jumped up like a devil and was going to rush at my wife.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

He heard her groan; she waked up and called him; he jumped up like a criminal.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

he exclaimed; and, jumping up like a madman, he fell upon his companion, who considered himself equally injured, and they set to in such good earnest, that they rooted up trees and beat one another about until they both fell dead upon the ground.
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

Mrs. Batchelor,' they'd say, 'why, the pits is as safe as a church'—an they'd laff —Jamie ud laff at me times.
— from Sir George Tressady — Volume I by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

“Well, if this isn’t a night of adventures and mysteries, jumbled up like a tangled fishing line, I’d like to know,” exclaimed Percy Simmons feelingly, as the boat moved slowly through the water.
— from The Border Boys Along the St. Lawrence by John Henry Goldfrap

he added, breaking off, "you must jump up, like a sweet lad, and get me an apple, to wet my pipe like."
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

July until long after frosts.
— from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc. by Charles McIlvaine

Another time he would have enjoyed driving over the short grass, and seeing it jump up like a little green fountain in front of him; but now his whole mind was absorbed by the few words he caught at intervals of the conversation going on between John and the young gentlemen.
— from Melchior's Dream and Other Tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

Give me your hand and jump up like a man!
— from The Gadfly by E. L. (Ethel Lillian) Voynich

Scarlett jumped up like a gymnast, and together we heaved the body overboard.
— from The Secret Service Submarine: A Story of the Present War by Guy Thorne

Miss Persis Dale has sent word that she will be detained for a little by the pressure of Saturday's work, but that she will join us later, and undoubtedly other tardy arrivals will have excuses equally good.
— from Other People's Business: The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale by Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith

Cornelia had to keep her jewels under lock and key.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac