I suspected something from what you told me, and had a look at one or two; they were simply disgraceful.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Annette might have smiled in her turn, at this sage observation of Emily, who could tremble with ideal terrors, as much as herself, and listen almost as eagerly to the recital of a mysterious story.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Pantagruel, seeing that, most gallantly displayed the vigour of his arms, and, according to the art of the axe, gave him with the great end of his mast a homethrust a little above the breast; then, bringing along the blow to the left side, with a slash struck him between the neck and shoulders.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

"You'll catch it, you know," said Tom, nodding his head in an admonitory manner, and hesitating a little as he took the scissors.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Thou didst address thyself to my simplicity, thou didst lay siege to my virtue, thou wert not ignorant of my station, well dost thou know how I yielded wholly to thy will; there is no ground or reason for thee to plead deception, and if it be so, as it is, and if thou art a Christian as thou art a gentleman, why dost thou by such subterfuges put off making me as happy at last as thou didst at first?
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"That is nothing," he replied, "there are many around here as large as a soup plate."
— from Santo Domingo: A Country with a Future by Otto Schoenrich

We meet once a week at the houses of the members, and have a large average attendance, considering the situation of our hill town, some of us living as much as four miles apart.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, March 1884, No. 6 by Chautauqua Institution

On being given command of the combined Union forces at and about Washington, McClellan again had a large and splendidly equipped army under him.
— from Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer

You promised to give me a home as long as you owned one.”
— from The Woman-Haters by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

He would run back with the man and have a look at his wife.
— from A Prince of Sinners by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

People will turn back, turn again and face me, and have a look at me, or will say to one another 'Look here!
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

After that he fell under a shower of wounds, and when he was dead the mob abused him as loudly as they had flattered him in his lifetime—and with as little reason.
— from Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II by Cornelius Tacitus

“Be a great joke if she and this native girl really followed up that jeweled monkey and found the black queen’s treasure and we never as much as had a look at the ‘Rope of Gold’.
— from The Rope of Gold A Mystery Story for Boys by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

o' meek and helpless and lamed; and says she, 'Wal, Parson Carryl, don't trouble your head no more about it; I'll see to things;' and sure enough, a week arter there was a nice pen, all ship-shape, and two little white pigs that Huldy bought with the money for the butter she sold at the store.
— from Oldtown Fireside Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Just let me strike a match and have a look at your faces.
— from Great Hike; or, The Pride of the Khaki Troop by Douglas, Alan, Captain