'Oh John!' 'Understand me, sweetheart.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

A savage would judge us more sanely.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Under his stringy black locks I saw his ear; it jumped upon me suddenly close to my face.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Naningála ang ákung tiyan sa pagkáun ug nangkà, The jackfruit upset my stomach.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Sonia took it, flushed crimson, jumped up, muttered something and began taking leave.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

However, he thought better of this idea, and remained in Japan until matters shaped themselves so that he could accept the Mikado's invitation to Kiôto, and so decently recognize the new political arrangements.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

To see, consequently, what the refraction will be when the waves of light pass into a substance in which the movement travels more quickly than in that from which they emerge (let us again assume the ratio of 3 to 2), it is only necessary to repeat all the same construction and demonstration which we have just used, merely substituting everywhere 3/2 instead of 2/3.
— from Treatise on Light In which are explained the causes of that which occurs in reflexion, & in refraction and particularly in the strange refraction of Iceland crystal by Christiaan Huygens

Can there be a thing Under the cope of heaven that can bring More joy unto my soul , or can present My Genius with a fuller blandishment?
— from The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 by Robert Herrick

The very thought of speech or companionship jars upon me; silence alone is possible for such hours and moods.
— from Under the Trees and Elsewhere by Hamilton Wright Mabie

Uncle Josh did not seem to see her at all, and only said, "Now, boys, just unbuckle my skates for me, will you?"
— from Harper's Young People, February 3, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

It always jars upon my sense of appropriateness to hear this old garden
— from Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle

The shouts of the sailors, the rattle of the cordage, the farewells of my fellow-passengers, and the cheers of the mob, each and all jarred upon my sensitive nature.
— from The Dealings of Captain Sharkey, and Other Tales of Pirates by Arthur Conan Doyle

I met a family of children and old women half-way up the Wengen Alp (by the Jungfrau) upon mules, some of them too old and others too young to be the least aware of what they saw.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

I am by no means a bigoted pietist, but to hear a person talk lightly about seeking the counsel of Almighty God jars upon my sense of taste.
— from The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke