Indeed, the poor little creature experienced so much trouble and delay from having to grope for these articles of dress in mud and kennel, and suffered in these researches so much jostling, pushing, squeezing and bandying from hand to hand, that by the time she reached the street in which the notary lived, she was fairly worn out and exhausted, and could not refrain from tears.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

I heard old Ahab tell him he must always kill a squall, something as they burst a waterspout with a pistol—fire your ship right into it!
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

M. {pg 268} Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

He was taken to her, and said, "Bring me a kettle and some water," and when that was brought, he bade everyone go out, and allowed no one to remain with him but Brother Lustig.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Among others, Lafayette, also helping the children, took me up—I was five years old, press'd me a moment to his breast—gave me a kiss and set me down in a safe spot.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Come, Marian, give me a kiss, and show that you have the courage to wait till I come back.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

There was also Haldor, a son of Gudmund of Modruveller; and Kolbein, a son of Thord, Frey's gode, and a brother's son of Brennuflose; together with Sverting, a son of the gode Runolf.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

FORT BROOKE, SIBU (The Forts at Bintulu, Muka, and Kapit, are similar.)
— from A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908 by C. A. Bampfylde

The wife and daughters of the departed, with their hoods turned inside out and with covered faces, squatted down meanwhile by the hearse, moaning and keeping a small fire alight.
— from In the Forbidden Land An account of a journey in Tibet, capture by the Tibetan authorities, imprisonment, torture and ultimate release by Arnold Henry Savage Landor

Late comers never caught sight of her, and affected incredulity when the younger and more active knights and squires raved about her.
— from The Prince and the Page: A Story of the Last Crusade by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

At the time Watling sailed from the Island, he had a musket, a knife, a small horn of powder, and a few shot.
— from History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney

It isn’t pleasant to be obliged to give her away as I have done—and if it had concerned anybody other than yourself, anybody in whom I had no interest, I should have let the matter rigidly alone, as no business of mine, and kept a strict silence.
— from The Triumph of Hilary Blachland by Bertram Mitford

The other Plosive of my acquaintance kept a shop in a Canadian city; he was a French half-breed, and, as I have heard, a great rascal.
— from All Men are Ghosts by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks

But Mr. Dignus, who is a friend of mine and knows about such things, said that would not be very kind to father, and might do him harm in his business.
— from Sweethearts at Home by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Dere hain't no chickens an' de Niggers eats c'on; You hain't never see'd de lak since youse been bo'n, You'd better mīn' Mosser an' keep a stiff lip, So's you won't git sōl' down to ole Miss'sip'.
— from Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Thomas Washington Talley