Near their town they had great orchards of gnarled apple-trees, planted by their forefathers when they came from France, and old pear-trees, of a kind unknown to the Americans; but their fields often lay untilled, while the owners lolled in the sunshine smoking their pipes.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Theodore Roosevelt

And he shut it up quickly, and slipped a knot upon the thongs, and blew his horn.
— from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

He was kicked upon the thigh, and being upon the march, he died.
— from A British Rifle Man The Journals and Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade, During the Peninsular War and the Campaign of Waterloo by George Simmons

It was decided that Romulus should remain with Sam until snow fell, but one night there came a scratching and a whining at the door and a series of peculiar short little barks so persistently kept up that they awakened both the boys.
— from The Dogs of Boytown by Walter A. (Walter Alden) Dyer

Later a conical helmet having a knob upon the top and being made of metal or leather, or a mixture of both, was adopted; this in its fully-developed state was fitted with a nasal ( Fig. 81 ).
— from British and Foreign Arms & Armour by Charles Henry Ashdown

God sets Kings upon the throne, and bids us submit ourselves to the powers that be.
— from In Taunton town : a story of the rebellion of James Duke of Monmouth in 1685 by Evelyn Everett-Green

Then Miss Newcome favoured him with a friendly kick under the table, accompanied by the elegant expression: "Bully for you, old man!"
— from Two Knapsacks: A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by John Campbell