The only being who seemed to relish their rough waggery, was old Pluto; and yet he led but a dog’s life of it; for they practised all kinds of manual jokes upon him; kicked him about like a foot-ball; shook him by his grizzly mop of wool, and never spoke to him without coupling a curse by way of adjective to his name, and consigning him to the infernal regions.
— from Wolfert's Roost, and Miscellanies by Washington Irving

"It was something I never heard before," replied Doro, in a low voice; "it was not like anything else—not even the mocking-bird, for, though it went on and on, the same strain floated back into it again and again; and the mocking-bird, you know, has a light and fickle soul.
— from Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches by Constance Fenimore Woolson

"Do you know," he added, looking about for his ball, "that it took me five strokes to get out of that cursed sand pit!"
— from John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life by Frederick Upham Adams

The proclamation stated that, it having been discovered that Austria had entered into a secret confederacy with other powers to attack Prussia; and the king having, after long and fruitless negotiations, tried to obtain satisfaction from that power; no resource remained but to declare war, at once, before the confederates could combine their forces for the destruction of the kingdom.
— from With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Dad swore at a huge scrofulous tramp, and kneed him a little aside from the fire.
— from Nights in London by Thomas Burke

The modern Khabad have a liturgy arranged from their old Rabbi Zelmína.
— from The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir