What is known as locomotor ataxia smote him there suddenly in his prime and pride of life.
— from The Cassowary; What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Stanley Waterloo

And the difference is that the martyr does not feel that death will put an end to all he knows and loves and set him, alive it may be, but alive in a strange country.
— from Our Lady Saint Mary by J. G. H. (Joseph Gayle Hurd) Barry

"You shall tell me, or I will—" She seized the gypsy girls shoulders, and shook her, before she realized that the girl, whose eyes were filled with tears, probably knew as little as she herself.
— from The Camp Fire Girls at Long Lake; Or, Bessie King in Summer Camp by Jane L. Stewart

The elegant limbs, Herculean frame, and graceful and terrible movements of this six foot and a-half young man, as she had gazed upon him in this last dance, had softened her heart into all its former kindness and liberality, and she had at this moment, when I first discovered her, unclasped a beautiful bracelet from one of her arms, and was just reaching over the platform to say to me as she did, “Wonderful! wonderful!
— from Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. 2 (of 2) being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with his North American Indian Collection by George Catlin

so well, and for this reason alone the visitor will, in most cases, think the journey from Arles worth making, particularly if he does it en auto , for the fifty odd kilometres are like a sanded, hardwood floor or a cinder path, and the landscape, though flat, is by no means deadly dull.
— from Rambles on the Riviera by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

So when Swanhilda had been queen three years, she suborned many of King Urrayne's knights and lords, and slew her husband as he slept, and reigned in his stead.
— from The Hollow Land by William Morris

Now Horace protests that every commonly decent marriage of her acquaintance costs Lady Katrine at least a sad headache; but Miss Stanley’s marriage, likely as it is to be so happy after all, as he politely said, foredooms poor Lady Katrine to a month’s heartache at the least, and a face full ell long.”
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Helen by Maria Edgeworth

In silence Oswy bent his knee, And laid a scarf her feet before.
— from Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 3 (of 3) Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Walter Scott

Mrs Roby shook her head and said that she had not; and, besides, that if she had, it would be impossible for her to keep a lodger, as she had no servant, and could not attend on him herself.
— from Rivers of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne