He discharged this like a Rocket, at his father-in-law’s head.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

He was astonished at it, and sent his servant forth to look all round and see from whence this music came.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Egad, you did it again and again; for our messenger told us that you shook like a reed and knew not where you were.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

These, who at times lived a racketing and luxurious life, at last rebelled against the Grand Coesre, and would no longer be reckoned among his subjects--a step which gave a considerable shock to the Argotic monarchy.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

‘I don’t know if she wore skins, but she was a Lapps all right, and his folks felt dreadful about it.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

In a word, I may say thus much of them all, let them be never so clownish, rude and horrid, Grobians and sluts, if once they be in love they will be most neat and spruce; for, [5505] Omnibus rebus, et nitidis nitoribus antevenit amor , they will follow the fashion, begin to trick up, and to have a good opinion of themselves, venustatem enim mater Venus ; a ship is not so long a rigging as a young gentlewoman a trimming up herself against her sweetheart comes.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But, no, gentlemen,” said Stryver, looking all round, and snapping his fingers, “I know something of human nature, and I tell you that you'll never find a fellow like this fellow, trusting himself to the mercies of such precious protégés .
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

In the meanwhile, she wept in torrents, in silence, in the dark, like a rain at night.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

She (Mistress Clo—as they call her) has big, bold, black eyes and holds her chin in the air and her mouth looks as red as if 'twere painted every hour.
— from His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett

It has direct communication with Eastern and Western Massachusetts through the Boston and Albany Railway, and while it is not likely that it will ever come to anything pretentious, it will always be, in appearance at least, a rugged and romantic-looking little village.
— from Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Development of Cities and Towns Along the Route; and Regions Traversed Beyond the Mississippi; Together with Incidents, Anecdotes and Adventures of the Journey by Willard W. Glazier

But the great melting moments of life are rare, and the tracts between are full of small frictions.
— from The Testing of Diana Mallory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

In other words, Venus, if Schiaparelli and Lowell are right, always presents the same side to the sun, possessing, in consequence, a day hemisphere and a night hemisphere which never interchange places.
— from Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers by Garrett Putman Serviss

Quarrelling in our own language, and ready almost to fight!
— from Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) by Thorvald Peter Ludwig Weitemeyer

In addition to all this the new Parthian empire from the eastward pressed hard on the aliens not merely with its material power, but with the whole superiority of its national language and religion and of its national military and political organization.
— from The History of Rome, Book IV The Revolution by Theodor Mommsen

A bout was in progress now, of six rounds, between two lightweights, a rapid affair which drew to a conclusion none too quickly for me.
— from Paradise Garden: The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment by George Gibbs

After the stricture and soreness of the lungs are removed, and the general febrile action is suppressed, it is desirable to give a general tonic treatment .
— from A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication by Daniel Clark

Cambo is two hours' drive from Biarritz—a most pleasant watering-place on a high terrace above the Nive, with pergolas of vines and planes, a churchyard which is a perfect blaze of lilies and roses, and an inn-garden which is full of lovely flowers.
— from The Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare