They had always required the men to be on the killing beds and ready for work at seven o'clock, although there was almost never any work to be done till the buyers out in the yards had gotten to work, and some cattle had come over the chutes.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The contrast was as striking as it could have been eighteen years before, when Rigg was a most unengaging kickable boy, and Raffles was the rather thick-set Adonis of bar-rooms and back-parlors.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Margaret had been purposely kept in the dark until almost the last moment, for Miss Polehampton did not in the least wish to make a scandal, and annoyed as she was by Miss Adair's avowed preference for Janetta, she had arranged a neat little plan by which Miss Colwyn was to go away "for change of air," and be transferred to a school at Worthing kept by a relation of her own at the beginning of the following term.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

I laid down my gun, and kneeling behind a rock lighted a pipe.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

A man was introduced to us as an expert mimic of the note of the paroquet, peacock, jungle-fowl and other forest birds; and a small party improvised, in front of the bungalow, a bird trap cleverly constructed out of stones, an iron plate from the camp kitchen, bamboo, and rope made on the spot from the bark of Ficus Tsiela .
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

We have several times named the most general classes of interests which we find serviceable in sociology, viz.: health , wealth , sociability , knowledge , beauty , and rightness .
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

On the other hand, we may say of the same boy, in the sociological sense: "He has not discovered his health, wealth, sociability, knowledge, beauty, and rightness interests ."
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

“You are most kind; but as regards myself, I can find no merit I possess, save that, as a millionaire, I might have become a partner in the speculations of M. Aguado and M. Rothschild; but as my motive in travelling to your capital would not have been for the pleasure of dabbling in stocks, I stayed away till some favorable chance should present itself of carrying my wish into execution.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

So Ráma, to his purpose true, To Queen Kauśalyá bade adieu, Received the benison she gave, And to the path of duty clave.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

At day-break the next morning, I stood for an inlet which runs in S.W.; and at eight I got within the entrance, which may be known by a reef of rocks, stretching from the north-west point, and some rocky islands which lie off the south-east point.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr

Sati, the wife of Kneph, bore a resemblance to Juno.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01: The Old Pagan Civilizations by John Lord

The number of members of the club was not to exceed nine; each of them was known by a Runic sign.
— from The Growth of a Soul by August Strindberg

To Auray is twenty kilometres by a road which gently rolls down a matter of 150 metres of elevation until it reaches sea-level at the little market-town seaport known in Breton as Alre.
— from Rambles in Brittany by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

“Well, sir,” said the damsel, “if there is anything distressing you have only to thank your acquaintance who chooses to call his mug-house by the name of a respectable hotel, for I would have you know that this is an hotel, and kept by a respectable and a religious man, and not kept by—However, I scorn to say more, especially as I might be misinterpreted.
— from Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by George Borrow

Through the happiness of his words, through the happiness they brought her, was blending a bitter suffering that kept back all response to his joy.
— from The Lead of Honour by Norval Richardson

Formerly the favorite horse of the deceased was killed and the kozhán burned, and relatives frequently cut their hair and refrained for a time from personal adornment.
— from The North American Indian, Vol. 1 by Edward S. Curtis

He was only a little street sweeper, you know, Barefooted, and ragged as one could be; But blue were his eyes as the far-off skies, And a brave-hearted laddie was Tommy Magee.
— from Harper's Young People, February 10, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

His eyes were turned from her, yet she could see in them a look of unutterable sorrow, and around his mouth a quivering expression of anguish, as though he felt obliged to compress his lips firmly, to keep back a rush of [200] contending emotions.
— from Hesper, the Home-Spirit: A simple story of household labor and love by Lizzie Doten