And I hasten over the humiliating spectacle of Aristides, spanked, cuffed, and kicked, and pick him from the ditch into which he was at last ignominiously tossed, a defeated but still struggling warrior, and so bring him, as the night closes charitably around him, in contrite tears and muddy garments to his father's door.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

tois men oun amblôthridiois pharmakois ê tisin allois pathêmasi diaphthei|| 184 rousi to embryon ê tinas tôn hymenôn autou rhêgnyousin hai amblôseis hepontai, houtô de kapeidan aniathôsi poth' hai mêtrai kakôs echousai tê diatasei, tais de tôn embryôn autôn kinêsesi tais sphodrotatais hoi tokoi, kathaper kai touth' Hippokratei kalôs eirêtai.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Then he drops down on his knees, and puts his hands together and says: “Doan’ hurt me—don’t!
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The coach started for Frankfort the same evening, and summoning Month I thanked him for his kindness and paid him generously, so he went off well pleased.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The Persian went on his knees and put his lantern on the ground.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

It is especially famous for the millions of hogs killed and packed here annually.
— from Extracts from the Diary of William C. Lobenstine, December 31, 1851-1858 by William C. (William Christian) Lobenstine

A man, whose name you need not know at present, has resolved to prevent your reaching the hacienda.
— from The Bee Hunters: A Tale of Adventure by Gustave Aimard

Justice, however, to the memory of Kidd requires it to be said that he was not at that period, so far as it is known, a pirate himself.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

At her own desire kings and princes had hurled the spear at the stalwart Queen, and it had but glanced harmless off her shield, while she would pierce the armour of these valiant knights with her first thrust.
— from Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor

Cynthia swayed visibly in the darkness, and then she sank to her knees and put her head in her mother's lap.
— from Pole Baker: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

But then Samantha had insisted upon having a separate domain, and Keziah and Pamela had imitated their elder sister to a fraction.
— from Dab Kinzer: A Story of a Growing Boy by William O. Stoddard

Thence he fled, still through fear of Saul, to Achish, the Philistine king of Gath; and {20} finding his life in danger there, he escaped to Adullam, where he was joined by his kindred, and put himself at the head of an irregular band of men, such as, in the unsettled state of the country, might be usefully and lawfully employed against the {25} remnant of the heathen.
— from Selections from the Prose Writings of John Henry Cardinal Newman For the Use of Schools by John Henry Newman

He did all sorts of jobs: mended kettles and pans, helped charcoal burners, aided in pitching in the woods, and only used his fiddle and earned money that way when the peasants somewhere were celebrating a festival or holiday, a wedding or big dance, and such like.
— from Seldwyla Folks: Three Singular Tales by Gottfried Keller