Crab places the ball at the word, old Brooke kicks, and it rises slowly and truly as the School rush forward.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

And it seemed to him all at once that he was turned to stone, that it was like a dream in which one is being pursued, nearly caught and will be killed, and is rooted to the spot and cannot even move one’s arms.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I could not stomach language of this kind, and I resolved to pay Jacquet, the editor, a visit, and now my time had come.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Paul Riesling—” “Yes, sure, I'll 'phone Paul and let him know about it right away.” “Georgie!
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

The general comes to us, Suvórov-like, in a kibítka , and is received with acclamations of joy and triumph.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Then Sir Accolon withdrew a little, and came on with Excalibur on high, and smote King Arthur in return with such a mighty stroke as almost felled him; and both being now in hottest wrath, they gave each other grievous and savage blows.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Among these visitors, one Mentes, from Leucadia, the modern Santa Maura, who evinced a knowledge and intelligence rarely found in those times, persuaded Melesigenes to close his school, and accompany him on his travels.
— from The Iliad by Homer

“I’ve told you what I know, and I repeat that in this delicate and tender matter, as far as one can conjecture, I believe the chances are in your favor.”
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Torvald mustn't know about it-- Rank .
— from A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen

But at the time we speak of, the fire in the temple was not content with being kept alive: it raged.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

He used to herd cattle for my father, you know, and I recognised him the moment I put my eyes on him.
— from George at the Wheel; Or, Life in the Pilot-House by Harry Castlemon

The other ambassadors were coldly received by the king, and immediately returned to Florence with the assurance that his majesty was by no means well disposed towards the republic.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

41-48, the Independent Labour party states under the heading of "Wealth Makers and Wealth Takers": "The total incomes of persons in the United Kingdom amount in round figures to 1,800,000,000 l.
— from British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by J. Ellis Barker

I sank upon my knees and imploringly raised my arms in supplication, but the comrade of my journey turned about, and began to retrace his course.
— from Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd

"'—do persecute to the death' his uncle Sir Thomas, his father John, and William Bassett his kinsman; and, in return for all this, Thomas FitzHerbert shall become her Grace's sworn servant—that is, Mistress Manners, her Grace's spy, pursuivant, informer and what-not—and that he shall grant and secure to Richard Topcliffe, Esquire, and to his heirs for ever, 'the manors of Over Padley and Nether Padley, on the Derwent, with six messuages, two cottages, ten gardens, ten orchards, a thousand acres of land, five hundred acres of meadow-land, six hundred acres of pasture, three hundred acres of wood, a thousand acres of furze and heath, in Padley, Grindleford and Lyham, in the parish of Hathersage, in consideration of eight hundred marks of silver, to be paid to Thomas FitzHerbert, Esquire, etc.'"
— from Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson

“Tell me nothing, I know all,” I replied.
— from Katia by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In the former, a complete plan of the grounds is kept, every separate grave being marked upon it with its appropriate number, so that at any future time, on consulting it, the exact spot of interment can be ascertained, and the Register which is also kept, affords information respecting the places of birth, age, and date of death.
— from Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir

She is—er— peculiar , don't you know, and I rather doubt whether you will have much in common.
— from The Travelling Companions: A Story in Scenes by F. Anstey