“The envoy of Tosti,” he said, “moved up the hall, undismayed by the frowning countenances of all around him, until he made his obeisance before the throne of King Harold.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one’s head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one’s heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun—which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun—which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Ferdinand no sooner recovered from the confusion produced by this unexpected repulse, than he saw the necessity of coming to a speedy determination, lest the offended fair one should appeal to Renaldo, in which case they might be mutually undeceived, to his utter shame and confusion; he therefore resolved to deprecate her anger by humble supplications, and by protesting, that, whatever tortures he might suffer by suppressing his sentiments, she should never again be offended with a declaration of his passion.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

he added, "but it will be very dangerous to us if these states are not soon made unable to hurt us."
— from For Sceptre and Crown: A Romance of the Present Time. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Gregor Samarow

In the village of Dean, where it sits in the bottom of a glen beside the river, I inquired my way of a miller's man, who sent me up the hill upon the farther side by a plain path, and so to a decent-like small house in a garden of lawns and apple-trees.
— from David Balfour Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson

But there was something about both smile and eyes that made me more uncomfortable than Harry Underwood's bizarre threat.
— from Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon by Adele Garrison

And ever as they met us they hailed us with, "What cheer, comrades?
— from Havelok the Dane A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

[117] When the Kurds were tired of mistreating us they hobbled us, still naked, to their horses.
— from Ravished Armenia The Story of Aurora Mardiganian, the Christian Girl Who Lived Through the Great Massacres by Aurora Mardiganian

The creature moved in a leisurely manner up the hill until it disappeared around the cliffs.
— from Panther Eye by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

Most Easteners is so polite that they haven’t the heart to set a feller right when he has the wrong notion; but the Friar would divvy up on his knowledge as free as he would on his bacon or tobacco; so I opened myself up to him until he knew as much about me as I did myself.
— from Friar Tuck Being the Chronicles of the Reverend John Carmichael, of Wyoming, U. S. A. by Robert Alexander Wason

Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all.
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 14: 2 Chronicles by Anonymous

Around e. g. the mouth, upon the head, under the arms or in the axillæ, and around the sexual apertures.
— from Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken