The bears rolled on the ground at last in the most unseemly fashion, amid roars of laughter from the closely-packed crowd of men and women.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Looking into the eyes of Mrs and Miss Wackles for encouragement, and sitting very upright and uncomfortable on a couple of hard stools, were two of the day-scholars; and when Miss Wackles smiled, and Mrs Wackles smiled, the two little girls on the stools sought to curry favour by smiling likewise, in gracious acknowledgement of which attention the old lady frowned them down instantly, and said that if they dared to be guilty of such an impertinence again, they should be sent under convoy to their respective homes.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

ye well Queen Morgawse of Orkney is fairest in mine eye, and so every knight thinketh his own lady fairest; and wit ye well, sir, ye are the man in the world except Sir Tristram that I am most loathest to have ado withal, but, an ye will needs fight with me
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

-x- x is infixed after the initial consonant k.o. kind of x 1 , x 2 there are two roots with the shape x , members of different morphemes -l- infix consisting of l followed by the initial vowel of the root x-y x is a prefix, and y is a suffix lit.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

XXII .—It is a proof of little friendship not to perceive the growing coolness of that of our friends.
— from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims by François duc de La Rochefoucauld

Erling went out of the town on Thursday afternoon, in the second week of Lent (February 19); and every man had two days' provisions with him.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Our limbs fail, our senses rot.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Thereupon, he asked us, in order thereby to show our love for him, to kill all the swine that we had in [ 267 ] the ships, in return for which he would give us an equal number of goats and fowls.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

. Tad, however, grasped the foot that was sticking up through the sand, and with a mighty tug hauled Chunky right through the heap, choking, coughing and sputtering angrily, to the accompaniment of roars of laughter from his companions.
— from The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali; Or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze by Frank Gee Patchin

One longs for a tournure de phrase , a maniement de mots that would give it a semblance of native authorship.
— from Oscar Wilde by Leonard Cresswell Ingleby

When it was fine weather they helped the gardener, as they said, or hindered him, as he sometimes complained—walked in the orchard, looking for ripe fruit—or swung, and on a cool evening Mr. Arnott would sometimes take them out on the river in a pretty little sailing boat, or drive them two or thee miles in a light, open carriage.
— from Aunt Kitty's Tales by Maria J. (Maria Jane) McIntosh

That the average angler whose dry fly knowledge is confined wholly to a greater or lesser familiarity with the literature of the subject, seriously doubts his ability—or that of any man—to strike his fish successfully with a slack line is, I am sure, a fact; and this identical thing, possibly more than anything else, is responsible for the hesitancy with which the confirmed wet fly fisherman turns to the dry fly.
— from Fishing with Floating Flies by Samuel G. (Samuel Granger) Camp

Considered in the light of evolution, acting through an immense period of time, by means of the processes already enumerated, the diversity of land form is made plain to us, and the ever-varying characters of rock structure and composition are in the main made easy of comprehension.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, February 1899 Volume LIV, No. 4, February 1899 by Various

He nourished him until his beast nature disappeared, and called him Oisin, "little fawn."
— from The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J. A. (John Arnott) MacCulloch

[Pg 126] did not justify this many times over, as two brief quotations in addition to the sonnet will show:— "Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay, Within that temple where the vestal flame Was wont to burn: and, passing by that way To see that buried dust of living fame, Whose tomb fair Love and fairer Virtue kept, All suddenly I saw the Fairy Queen, At whose approach the soul of Petrarch wept; And from henceforth those graces were not seen, For they this Queen attended; in whose stead Oblivion laid him down on Laura's hearse.
— from A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury

At the capital, tombs were often lost for long periods in this way; in less crowded cemeteries the accident would seem to be less likely to happen.
— from El Kab by James Edward Quibell

"So you only began to speak our language five moons ago last Herb Day?
— from Captain Salt in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson