Her shoes—of pink leather—are fastened each with a bunch of yellow ribbons puckered up in the shape of a cabbage.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

He walked up, and a little boy, playing unconcernedly in the sunshine, started at his approach and fled quickly away: to him the stranger was the enemy.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Being then disturbed, they made off; letting themselves out at the main door, and double-locking it again (it was double-locked, and the key under Mrs. Sparsit’s pillow) with a false key, which was picked up in the street near the Bank, about twelve o’clock to-day.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

To which Yorick, with his usual carelessness of heart, would as often answer with a pshaw!—and if the subject was started in the fields,—with a hop, skip, and a jump at the end of it; but if close pent up in the social chimney-corner, where the culprit was 49 barricado’d in, with a table and a couple of arm-chairs, and could not so readily fly off in a tangent,— Eugenius would then go on with his lecture upon discretion in words to this purpose, though somewhat better put together.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Considered in respect of this alone, as a principle of explanation, it may be called a hypothesis, but in reference to the intelligibility of an object given us by the moral law (the summum bonum), and consequently of a requirement for practical purposes, it may be called faith, that is to say a pure rational faith, since pure reason (both in its theoretical and practical use) is the sole source from which it springs.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

45 8 pobre : unaccented in translation, since it precedes the noun.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Bold, overhanging, and as it were threatening, rocks; clouds piled up in the sky, moving with lightning flashes and thunder peals; volcanoes in all their violence of destruction; hurricanes with their track of devastation; the boundless ocean in a state of tumult; the lofty waterfall of a mighty river, and such like; these exhibit our faculty of resistance as insignificantly small in comparison with their might.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

[Pg 39] in it and composed of it, must regard as the Verily Non-existent,— i.e., as a perpetual unfolding in time, space and causality,—in other words, as empiric reality.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

its analogues in old Welsh tales), is not quite assimilated or properly used in this story.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Men of this kind have no universal except their own interests or the interests of their class, no principle but the opinion of persons like themselves, no knowledge of affairs beyond what they pick up in the streets or at their club.
— from The Republic by Plato

"The Clarks will be putting the price up if they should find out that we wanted it so much," warned Roger.
— from Ethel Morton's Enterprise by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

do they send the psalm up in the spire, And pray because 'tis lucky for the boats?
— from Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow

Before every house, neatly piled up in the street, I noticed large supplies of fire-wood, sawed and split.
— from The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Charles Nordhoff

A big, brawny, and most repulsive-looking savage, who was probably the captain of the craft, sat perched up in the stern, steering with a somewhat longer and broader-bladed paddle, and urging his crew to maintain their exertions by continually giving utterance to the most hair-raising shrieks and yells.
— from A Middy of the Slave Squadron: A West African Story by Harry Collingwood

“THE HEAVY VEHICLE WAS PICKED UP IN THE SWIRLING TIDE
— from The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 129, December, 1908 by Various

There was quite a long row of cars in the drive, bicycles were stacked against the veranda, and two ponies were put up in the stable.
— from The Princess of the School by Angela Brazil

"About forty years ago," resumed the Major placidly, "in the little, old, unheard-of town Karnteel, County Tyrone, Province Ulster, Ireland, Tommy Stafford was fortunate enough—despite the contrary opinion on that point of his wretchedly poor parents—to be born.
— from The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 10 by James Whitcomb Riley

[Pg 63] The years 1631 and 1632 were lean years in Hals' output, but the year 1633, which gave us "Portrait of a Man" at the National Gallery—a fresh complexioned, easy going gentleman about thirty to forty years of age, in an astonishingly voluminous ruff, quite a bygone fashion in that year—saw a chef-d'œuvre de chefs-d'œuvres , another " Schutters-stuk ," put up in the Stadhuis at Haarlem. "
— from Franz Hals by Edgcumbe Staley

But of the 508 only 170 were picked up in the streets, and among these the mortality was much greater, probably nearer ninety per cent., if the truth were told.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis