As soon as the Chitterlings perceived the flying hog, down they all threw their weapons and fell on their knees, lifting up their hands joined together, without speaking one word, in a posture of adoration.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

he said in astonishment; “what could urge one of thy rank and seeming worth to so foul an undertaking?” “Richard,” said the captive Knight, looking up to him, “thou knowest little of mankind, if thou knowest not to what ambition and revenge can lead every child of Adam.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

When giving audience he would clamber upon a sort of narrow stage erected in a hall like a ruinous barn with a rotten bamboo floor, through the cracks of which you could see, twelve or fifteen feet below, the heaps of refuse and garbage of all kinds lying under the house.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

He was resting one hand carelessly on the golden locks of a child that had nestled itself against his knees, looking up to his face in that silent loving wonder with which children regard something too strangely beautiful for noisy admiration; he himself was conversing with the host, an old gray-haired, gouty man, propped on his crutched stick, and listening with a look of mournful envy.
— from A Strange Story — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The men of the Sixth corps now regarded their cross with greater pride than had ever ancient knight looked upon the heraldry which emblazoned his arms.
— from Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by George T. (George Thomas) Stevens

"I don't know," answered Stuart, speaking in English, which he knew Leon understood, though he did not speak it.
— from Plotting in Pirate Seas by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

"You know Louis used to have just a streak in him.
— from The High Calling by Charles M. Sheldon

He said he would; and tried to find his way to the road which he knew led up the hill to Woodbine Villa.
— from Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade

He might be more than fifty years old, and all the kingdom looked up to him.
— from Chinese Literature Comprising the Analects of Confucius, the Sayings of Mencius, the Shi-King, the Travels of Fâ-Hien, and the Sorrows of Han by Faxian

My mother’s knitting lies upon the hearthrug, where the kitten, I remember, dragged it, somewhere back in the sixties.
— from Novel Notes by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

And as you see, Kitty lived up to her bargain."
— from The Penance of Magdalena and Other Tales of the California Missions by J. Smeaton (Joseph Smeaton) Chase