Leg it , to run; “to give a LEG ,” to assist, as when one mounts a horse; “making a LEG ,” a countryman’s bow,—projecting the LEG from behind as a balance to the head bent forward.—
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

A man and his menfriends are living there in clover.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

, no general fixed on, that the senate and people were turned the one against the other; their leaders thinking that an opportunity presented itself, making a hasty march, and laying waste the country as they went along, they advanced their standards as far as the Colline gate.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

He was of so wild, savage, and insubordinate a nature, that I never had the least regard for him; and before me and his mother, at least, was so moody and dull, that I thought instruction thrown away upon him, and left him for the most part to shift for himself.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

The spitting, the coughing, the laughter, the neezing, the farting, dancing, noise of the music, and her masculine and loud commanding, and urging the whole family, makes him think he has married a fury.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

LEG IT, to run; LEG BAIL , to run off; “to give a LEG ,” to assist, as when one mounts a horse; “making a LEG ,” a countryman’s bow,—projecting the leg from behind as a balance to the head bent forward.—
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Here Nature shall condense her powers, Her music, and her meteors, And lifting man to the blue deep Where stars their perfect courses keep, [ 192 ]
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

He was henceforth a guest at a perpetual round of fêtes; his eyes were dazzled, his heart was moved, and his mind at last awoke.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

Unharmed he 'scaped, because unseen, Those monsters all so fierce and green; Through files of reptile guards he passed, Scolopendras black and vast; Many a hydra, many a lizard, Heros' tomb its filthy gizzard; Dragon with mouth like Ætna's crater, Crocodile and alligator; Huge spiders and scorpions round him crawled, Monstrous toads before him sprawled; Great rattle-snakes their fangs displayed— "Hurrah!"
— from Jack the Giant Killer by Percival Leigh

The performer takes something from his mouth, and, having made a laudatory address regarding its merits, replaces it between his teeth, and resumes his imitations of many birds and quadrupeds.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

He had to hasten a little to keep his half-past-eleven o'clock appointment at Stalker's stables, and when he arrived several men of his set were already waiting, who were also busy men, and had made a little effort to come round early and assist Jack in making up his mind about the horse.
— from The Golden House by Charles Dudley Warner

The old man,—nay, even the young man,—let him be as merry as he may, and laugh as long and loudly as he will, never laughs as the school-boy laughs.
— from The Book of Christmas Descriptive of the Customs, Ceremonies, Traditions, Superstitions, Fun, Feeling, and Festivities of the Christmas Season by Thomas K. Hervey

For his empty gun just missed me as he made a lightning jump to bring it down on my head, and my left hand stopped him up just under the ear.
— from The La Chance Mine Mystery by Susan Morrow Jones

En los últimos confines de la frontera del Sur, cerca de la línea que separa a los salvajes de las poblaciones cristianas, en el Pago del Manantial y entre los muros de un fuerte medio arruinado, habitaba María al lado de su padre, entre los soldados de la guarnición.
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

Will they not take me and hang me, and let the rest go free?' 'Child,' he took my hand between his own, 'God knows that if one life would suffice for all, it should be mine.
— from For Faith and Freedom by Walter Besant