The Maid soon miss’d the Spoons, and knowing that no Body had been in the Room, but herself and the young Man, since she saw them last, she charged him with taking them; he very stifly denied it, upon which she grew outragious, and threatned to go to a Constable, in order to carry him before a Justice of Peace: These Menaces frighten’d him out of his Wits, well knowing he could not stand Search; wherefore he endeavoured to pacify her, by desiring her to examine the Drawers and other Places, and perhaps she might find them; in this Time he slips into another Room, where the Maid usually lay, and puts the Spoons betwixt the Sheets, and then makes his Escape by a back Door, concluding she must find them, when she went to Bed, and so next Day he might pretend he did it only to frighten her, and the Thing might be laugh’d off for a Jest.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Ang mabdus musampiyad ug lakaw, A pregnant woman walks with her abdomen well forward.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

If there were nothing else—God knows whether there is—that memory is enough, to make us live at peace with one another. .
— from Ailsa Paige: A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

And you threw me—just picked me up like a puppy and threw me—out of their way, into the deep snow.
— from The La Chance Mine Mystery by Susan Morrow Jones

At Cydonia, where Metellus landed his three legions, a Cretan army of 24,000 men under Lasthenes and Panares was ready to receive him; a battle took place in the open field, in which the victory after a hard struggle remained with the Romans.
— from The History of Rome, Book V The Establishment of the Military Monarchy by Theodor Mommsen

I was digging myself up like a plant, and these fibres had to be disentangled, for I could not bear to break them.
— from Up and Down by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

"All right, compadre , pretty me up like a [pg 084] new stake rope on a thirty-dollar pony.
— from Rebel Spurs by Andre Norton

In the silence of her own room, in her garden, in the quiet stir of household duties, and again during the long evenings while she sat knitting by the fire and her brothers talked, she had pondered much upon love and puzzled herself with many questions.
— from The Westcotes by Arthur Quiller-Couch

It got me laughing, especially when an old Jew who had been sizing me up like a piece of goods nodded slow and solemn and said: "And she ain'd zo bad lookin' neither."
— from Miss Maitland, Private Secretary by Geraldine Bonner

A number of skeletons were discovered in digging foundations for the new inn, and it was darkly conjectured that the old house had had its gruesome secrets, dating from the times when inns were not infrequently the nests of murderers; until local antiquaries pointing out that the name of the place was Church Hill, and that this was an ancient p. 242 grave-yard, the excitement ceased.
— from The Great North Road, the Old Mail Road to Scotland: London to York by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper