Amina understood her sister's meaning, and collecting the dishes, glasses, and musical instruments, she carried them away, while Sadie swept the hall and put everything in order.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Nurse and mamma are comprehensible: they dress Grisha, feed him, and put him to bed, but what papa exists for is unknown.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“Had I ought to make a change, Thad?” demanded Giraffe, ignoring these side thrusts, and appealing to the fountain head.
— from The Boy Scouts Down in Dixie; or, The Strange Secret of Alligator Swamp by Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917

One can laugh at all mediocre men occupying seats of the mighty and calling their dead gods to witness that they are right—but one who knows that the intrinsic gift of each child is the one thing in sunlight to be promoted, turns away a bit dismally from the spectacle of the standardisation of the child mind—from the wholesale manufacture of middlemen by school system.
— from The Hive by Will Levington Comfort

The first thing to do was to analyse the MS., and classify the different groups of figures for the purpose of ascertaining the number of repetitions of any one group.
— from Under Lock and Key: A Story. Volume 1 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

Shipping orders were sent to the station agent in advance, and on the arrival of the herd the two outfits made short shift in classifying it for market and corralling the different grades of cattle.
— from Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings by Andy Adams

But in many a case this damaged grain, hay, or straw has been made attractive by a sprinkle of one of the savoury cattle foods that were invented and imitated some forty or fifty years ago, a portion of the ingredients in one kind consisting of the broken up and stickily sweet locust bean and the contents of its pod, with a dash of the bitter and aromatic fenugreek.
— from The Khedive's Country by George Manville Fenn

In half an hour you hear a man's voice; next, some feminine voluble remarks; then a latch is moved and clicks, the dog gives a morning bark, and a horse stamps his foot in the stable because the flies have aroused to breakfast on his tender skin.
— from A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and Lakes of Europe by John MacGregor

A Japanese will make a contract to deliver goods at a certain date; on the day appointed, or perhaps a week or two later, he will inform the other party to the agreement that he will not be ready for a month or two, and he is quite unable to comprehend the indignation of the disappointed merchant.
— from Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Japan and China by Thomas Wallace Knox

Aggiugnesi il libro del medesimo autore, che tratta de gl' Animali di sottoterra da lui stesso corretto et riveduto.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola