We found old Hawberk, neatly attired in a fresh spring suit, standing at the door of his shop and sniffing the air.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Van Helsing laid a hand on his shoulder, and said:— “Brave lad!
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

--The French word potage must originally have signified a soup composed of vegetables and herbs from the kitchen garden, but from the remotest times it was applied to soups in general.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

He also added this besides to what he had before said, that it was not a righteous thing to kill a brother, though he had injured them; that it is a good thing to forget the actions of such near friends, even in things wherein they might seem to have offended; but that they were going to kill Joseph, who had been guilty of nothing that was ill towards them, in whose case the infirmity of his small age should rather procure him mercy, and move them to unite together in the care of his preservation.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

To a portrait of "Alexander, King of Iberia," or Georgia Proper, Castelli attaches the following inscription, giving apparently his official style: "With the sceptre of David, Crowned by Heaven, First King of the Orient and of the World, King of Israel," adding, "They say that he has on his shoulder a small mark of a cross, ' Factus est principatus super humerum ejus ,' and they add that he has all his ribs in one piece, and not divided."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

“Well, I shall go by myself,” said Veslovsky, getting up eagerly, and putting on his shoes and stockings.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

When Hannibal understood the situation, he waited for a stormy night and announced to some of his soldiers a skirmish for after nightfall.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

And I often tossed myself upward and downward, considering first such things as these, whether when heat and cold have undergone a certain corruption, as some say, then animals are formed; and whether the blood is that by means of which we think, or air, or fire, or none of these, but that it is the brain that produces the perceptions of hearing, seeing, and smelling; and that from these come memory and opinion; and from memory and opinion, when in a state of rest, in the same way knowledge is produced. 103 .
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

The sight of him sent a stab to Ivan Ilyitch's heart, but only for an instant.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

She threw over her shoulders a superb mantle of zibeline which was quite needed, for, though it was the middle of April, it was quite cold.
— from Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas by Pierre Souvestre

Here was a reversal of human sentiment as sudden and as powerful as possible.
— from Makers and Romance of Alabama History by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Riley

Porto Bello taken by Admiral Vernon..... Hard Frost..... Marriage of the Princess Mary to the Prince of Hesse..... Strong Armament sent to the West Indies..... Death of the Emperor and Czarina.....
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

In Cuddie is set out the perfect pattern of a Poet, which, finding no maintenance of his state and studies, complaineth of the contempt of Poetry, and the causes thereof: specially having been in all ages, and even amongst the most barbarous, always of singular account and honour, and being indeed so worthy and commendable an art; or rather no art, but a divine gift and heavenly instinct not to be gotten by labour and learning, but adorned with both; and poured into the wit by a certain Enthousiasmos and celestial inspiration, as the Author hereof elsewhere at large discourseth in his book called The English Poet , which book being lately come to my hands, I mind also by God's grace, upon further advisement, to publish.
— from The Shepheard's Calender: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes by Edmund Spenser

From that instant he sets himself to work to discover the name of her seducer, and, suspecting Arthur Dimmesdale, attaches himself to the oft-ailing clergyman as his medical attendant.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

I remember him mighty plain as he walked before me on the ledge, totin’ a big log on his shoulder, and singin’ the one ’at begins, “Hark, my soul!
— from Friar Tuck Being the Chronicles of the Reverend John Carmichael, of Wyoming, U. S. A. by Robert Alexander Wason

Frale threw his sack over his shoulder and started on in silence, and the woman smiled evilly after him as she sat there and licked her lips, and chewed on her snuff stick and spat.
— from The Mountain Girl by Payne Erskine

and then he would get behind her and put on her spectacles, and speak just as she did.
— from The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

She was conscious of a subtle sense of mastery overpowering her, and with a strange delight she yielded herself to that commanding influence; but as she sang she began to realize that he was thinking not of her, but of her song, and soon she, too, was thinking of it.
— from The Man from Glengarry: A Tale of the Ottawa by Ralph Connor