On the following evening, when Liza was sitting on the garden seat where her rendezvous with Ivan Petrovitch usually took place, Groholsky went quietly to her.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The exclamations, the insults addressed to Benedetto, who remained perfectly unconcerned, the energetic gestures, the movement of the gendarmes, the sneers of the scum of the crowd always sure to rise to the surface in case of any disturbance—all this lasted five minutes, before the door-keepers and magistrates were able to restore silence.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

They have formed or picked up their convictions, and, what is of more consequence, their prepossessions, in early manhood, which is the one period of life when men are easily impressed with new ideas.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The compound in the jug being tasted, and considered perfect, apples and oranges were put upon the table, and a shovel-full of chestnuts on the fire.
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

The ten others, not even stopping to pick up their dead or wounded companions, fled to the other side of the islet, tumbled into the boat which had brought them, and pulled away with all their strength.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

The ancient philosophers, unable to comprehend how something could be produced out of nothing, supposed a matter pre-existent to the Earth in its present shape, which afterwards received form and order from some powerful cause.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Whiles, ranging like a roarin lion, For prey, a' holes and corners tryin; Whiles, on the strong-wind'd tempest flyin, Tirlin the kirks; Whiles, in the human bosom pryin, Unseen thou lurks.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

His ethics was not like what has since passed under that name—a spurious physics, accompanied by commandments and threats.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Every prostrate Kanaka; every coil of rope; every calabash of poi; every puppy; every seam in the flooring; every bolthead; every object; however minute, showed sharp and distinct in its every outline; and the shadow of the broad mainsail lay black as a pall upon the deck, leaving Billings’s white upturned face glorified and his body in a total eclipse.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

“Now, sir; please do not move nor breathe for forty minutes, and I will show you a triumph,” commanded Bess, as she picked up the utensils which she had used in her work.
— from The Brand: A Tale of the Flathead Reservation by Therese Broderick

Consider the cusp as a wave passing up the side stone from its bottom to its top; then you will have the succession of forms from e to g ( Plate III. ), with infinite degrees of transition from each to each; but of which you may take e , f , and g , as representing three great families of cusped arches.
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 1 (of 3) by John Ruskin

The lighter trades, prosecuted under the most agreeable circumstances, have in this way the longest hours, while an arduous trade, such as mining, has very short hours.
— from Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy

Hours afterward the children out at play found him lying in the dank grass that fringed the pond under the alder trees.
— from Dora Thorne by Charlotte M. Brame

Before lord Lovat engaged in the rebellion, Simon Fraser went to a wedding in his highland costume; when he entered the room where the party was assembled, an unfortunate wight of a bagpiper struck up the favourite march of a clan in mortal enmity with that of Fraser, which so enraged him, that he drew his dirk and killed the piper upon the spot.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

[553] Soon after his departure, the Osages turned their attention to Besha, sternly questioning him as to the part he had taken in their late chief’s dispute with Wingenund; and in spite of all his protestations of impartiality and innocence, they stripped him of every article of clothing save his mocassins, and gave him a most severe flogging with a laryette of bull’s–hide, after which they decamped, leaving him still pinioned, and writhing with pain, while they carried with them his attendant, whom they compelled to load and arrange the packs upon the horses, and to lead the latter for the first dozen miles of their route; after which they permitted him to return to release his master, who crawled back with difficulty, before daylight, to the Crow camp, having reaped the reward of his intrigues, cunning, and avarice, in the loss of all his presents, two of his best horses, and a flogging, from the effects of which he suffered for a long time.
— from The Prairie-Bird by Murray, Charles Augustus, Sir

Arlington gallantly picked up the flowers.
— from A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by William Henry Venable

Howbeit, she prayed us that due rites be done For burial of this babe, thine Hector's son, That now from Ilion's tower is fallen and dead.
— from The Trojan women of Euripides by Euripides

Then what had been the purpose underlying the trick?
— from The Girl and the Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure by Bannister Merwin