Then as he swung a leg over the ring and pulled himself up sitting, both hands clutching the netting, he saw Starley lean over and grasp the rope of the parachute.
— from Motor Matt's Daring Rescue; or, The Strange Case of Helen Brady by Stanley R. Matthews

This makes him contrite or repentant, and puts him upon seeking of Christ the Saviour, with heart-aching and heart-breaking considerations.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

Romena and Porciano, higher up stream, overhanging Pratovecchio and Stia, have been immortalised by the verse and hallowed by the footsteps of Dante Alighieri.
— from The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner

Then she felt beside herself with rage, and picking him up, she threw him with all her strength against the wall, crying, "Now will you be quiet, you horrid frog!"
— from Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

" He drove the massive switches in, and as that dull red beam struck the cliff's base there was made evident the awful effect of a concentrated beam of real and pure heat upon such an utterly frigid world.
— from Spacehounds of IPC by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

"I'm a going to cut a hole in the ice on the river, and push him under," said Sneak.
— from Wild Western Scenes A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly Described by J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones

Like the rules referring to the choice of partners, so the modes of contracting marriage and the ideas as to what in this respect is right and proper have undergone successive changes.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck