‘ You don’t know ?’ cried he, looking solemnly up from his plate, and suspending his knife and fork in astonishment.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Miss Crawford, a little suspicious and resentful of a certain tone of voice, and a certain half-look attending the last expression of his hope, made a hasty finish of her dealings with William Price; and securing his knave at an exorbitant rate, exclaimed, “There, I will stake my last like a woman of spirit.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

It told all about a good boy whose name was James, and his father was poor, and so he kept a pig that cost him twenty-five cents, and when it grew up he sold it for thirty dollars, and he brought the money to his father and said, "Here father!
— from The Adventures of Jimmy Brown by W. L. (William Livingston) Alden

Emerson Crawford helped himself to another fried egg from the platter and shook his knife at the bright-eyed girl opposite.
— from Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by William MacLeod Raine

It was winter, a heavy snow had fallen in the night, and in the still, frosty air the trees stood up as if wrought in silver, and the green before the dūn was a sheet of unbroken white, save that in one place a scullion had killed a calf for their dinner, and the blood of the calf lay on the snow.
— from Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston

And so, as I was diligently reading in the same book of Lambert upon Luke, suddenly one knocked at my chamber door very hard, which made me astonished, and yet I sat still and would not speak; then he knocked again more hard, and yet I held my peace; and straightway he knocked again yet more fiercely; and then I thought this: peradventure it is somebody that hath need of me; and therefore I thought myself bound to do as I would be done unto; and so, laying my book aside, I came to the door and opened it, and there was Master Garret, as a man amazed, whom I thought to have been with my brother, and one with him."
— from The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by James Anthony Froude

The Friar was a Limitour, one licensed to hear confessions: a wanton man who married many women 'at his own cost:' he heard confessions, sweetly imposing light penance: he knew all the taverns: he could play and sing: he knew all the rich people in his district: he carried knives and pins as gifts for the women:—a wholly worldly loose living Limitour.
— from South London by Walter Besant

Cuyler, the head of the local department, was a city underwriter pure and simple; his knowledge and his interest stopped short where the jurisdiction of the New York Exchange ended; he knew no more, nor did he care for anything else.
— from White Ashes by Alden Charles Noble

Bewildered in vast woods, the traveller feels His heavy heart grow lighter, if he meet The traces of a path, and straight he kneels, And kisses the dear print of human feet,
— from Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by William Cullen Bryant

That he was politic and skilful he knew, and that his policy and skill would be exercised in his patron's behalf he was also fully convinced.
— from The Convict: A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

When perchance a student has killed another, he is advised to quit the university, receiving from the senate what is called a consilium abeundi .
— from The History of Duelling. Vol. 1 (of 2) by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen