Then Kate of the Mill tumbled unfortunately over a tombstone, which catching hold of her ungartered stocking inverted the order of nature, and gave her heels the superiority to her head.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

She had crawled only a few feet, when a hand reached out of nowhere and grasped her shoulder.
— from Swamp Island by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

A RECEIPT TO MAKE METHEGLIN Take four Gallons of water, two quarts of Honey, two ounces of Ginger, one ounce of Nutmegs, a good handful of Rose-mary tops, and as much of Bay-leaves, two ounces of dried Orange-peel.
— from The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Kenelm Digby

Lucia saw the beautiful pattern of one Navajo as Gilbert held it, unfolded, from the floor.
— from The Bad Man: A Novel by Porter Emerson Browne

After our Civil War, George Peabody, one of our noblest Americans, gave his fortune for schools in the desolated south.
— from Five Sermons by Henry Benjamin Whipple

I ’member coming out one night, and going home, and my missus says to me, ‘Why, Davy, old man, what yer been a-doing on?
— from The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by George Manville Fenn

Horus and Isis and Osiris peeped down from every niche and shelf, while across the ceiling a true son of Old Nile, a great, hanging-jawed crocodile, was slung in a double noose.
— from Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life by Arthur Conan Doyle

Then the Queen turned to the suite, greeted Mother Bonham as she might have done her own old nurse, and gave her hand to kiss to Frideswide and Avice.
— from Red and White: A Tale of the Wars of the Roses by Emily Sarah Holt