Back to the inn, and drank with him, and so to horse again, and with much ado got to London, and set him up at Smithfield; so called at my uncle Fenner’s, my mother’s, my Lady’s, and so home, in all which I found all things as well as I could expect.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The Narragansetts were preparing to use upon the strangers the bows and arrows which the Little Man had given them, when one of them, laughing very loudly and sillily, held up a strange-shaped thing, which had a long neck to it like the ugly bird which cries in the brakes in the beginning of darkness.
— from Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 by James Athearn Jones

"No, that is Loch Achray," said his uncle, "and that mountain is Ben Venue, but we shall see Loch Katrine very soon;" and it was not long before Dugald drew up on the very edge of the loch itself, and a camping-place was soon found under the trees and in sight of Ellen's Isle.
— from Our Little Scotch Cousin by Blanche McManus

At the Luxembourg are some hung up, and one particularly is worth going to see alone: it is the Deluge by Nicolo Poussin, as winter.
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

Then the train halted at the Italian line and she hopped up and marched out of the car with as firm a leg as any washerwoman of all her tribe!
— from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain

“The first rose of the year blooms in Mr. Moultrie’s button-hole,” continued Abel, who galloped on, laughing, and seating himself upon an ottoman, so that his eyes were lower than the level of Grace Plumer’s.
— from Trumps by George William Curtis

MR. 'COON RODE DOWN ON IT LIKE A SLED "Hurry up, and get out our things," he said; and didn't stop, but ran right to the door and up the stairs, with Mr. 'Coon and Mr. 'Possum after him, though there was a good deal of smelly smoke there, and they expected the flames to break out any minute.
— from Hollow Tree Nights and Days by Albert Bigelow Paine

I slowly unbuckled my portfolio, placed a chair for him, and with my heart like a stone held up a drawing.
— from Audubon and His Journals, Volume 1 (of 2) by John James Audubon

Viola was kneeling by the sofa where her father had made Jimmy lie, and she had unbuttoned and taken from him his heavy coat.
— from The Belfry by May Sinclair

Look," and Sol held up a small note book, with a clipping pasted on the inside.
— from The Frontiersman: A Tale of the Yukon by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody

When at last he had got rid of her, he went to his own apartments, said not, a word to the persons he found there, scarcely one to Madame his wife, but taking Madame de Saint-Simon with him, went into his library, and shut himself up alone there with her.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various