His father would ride over many a time to see him here, and the elder Rawdon's paternal heart glowed to see him rosy and dirty, shouting lustily, and happy in the making of mud-pies under the superintendence of the gardener's wife, his nurse.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

[16] These, then, not drawn of any set purpose, but foregathering by chance in a corner of the church, having seated themselves in a ring, after divers sighs, let be the saying of paternosters and fell to devising with one another many and various things of the nature of the time.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

"I kept him locked in the maid's room all day," said Leni, "so that he wouldn't stop me doing my work.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

Rourke, quieted some by this interruption but still sputtering with rage and disgrace, shouted, "Lookit me coat!
— from Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser

342 Comme une lampe d'or dans l'azur suspendue, La lune se balance aux bords de l'horizon; Ses rayons affaiblis dorment sur le gazon, Et le voile des nuits sur les monts se déplie.
— from The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese

The tower, hard by, though ruined and deserted, still lifts its head proudly over the humble sheds and farm-buildings at its side, and "far o'er the Forth, looks to the north," across the deep and lonely valley in front of it, as it did in the old days, when it was the terror of the surrounding country.
— from Walks near Edinburgh by Margaret Warrender

To remove all doubt, she led the stranger to a room where the likeness of her first husband was suspended among many other family portraits.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 425, March, 1851 by Various

Never shall I forget that relish and delight, so long as I mistook them for parched wheat; nor that bitterness and disappointment, when I discovered that they were real pearls."
— from The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 by Sadi

His father, who was devotedly attached to the little fellow, would ride over many a time to see him here, and the elder Rawdon's paternal heart glowed to see him rosy and dirty, shouting lustily, and happy in the making of mud-pies under the superintendence of the gardener's wife, his nurse.
— from Boys and Girls from Thackeray by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

There was no topic suited to so fleeting a moment, and when they had smiled all round again Dr. Sevier lifted his hat.
— from Dr. Sevier by George Washington Cable