Soon they reached a side path, and down this the little dog fairly flew, only to come back at once, whining and barking.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

So, meeting Mr. Brisband, he took me up to my Lady Jemimah’s chamber, who is let blood to-day, and so there we sat and talked an hour, I think, very merry and one odd thing or other, and so away, and I took up my wife at her tailor’s (whose wife is brought to bed, and my wife must be godmother), and so with much ado got a coach to carry us home, it being late, and so to my chamber, having little left to do at my office, my eyes being a little sore by reason of my reading a small printed book the other day after it was dark, and so to supper and to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The youth in the poem is allowed to read the Veda, and to accumulate merit by his own as well as his father's pious acts; whereas the exclusive Code reserves all such privileges to Divijas invested with the sacred cord.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

His present pursuit could not make him forget that Elizabeth had been the first to excite and to deserve his attention, the first to listen and to pity, the first to be admired; and in his manner of bidding her adieu, wishing her every enjoyment, reminding her of what she was to expect in Lady Catherine de Bourgh, and trusting their opinion of her—their opinion of everybody—would always coincide, there was a solicitude, an interest which she felt must ever attach her to him with a most sincere regard; and she parted from him convinced that, whether married or single, he must always be her model of the amiable and pleasing.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Among many peoples similar restrictions are imposed on women in childbed and apparently for similar reasons; at such periods women are supposed to be in a dangerous condition which would infect any person or thing they might touch; hence they are put into quarantine until, with the recovery of their health and strength, the imaginary danger has passed away.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

It seems that, after the much talk of troubles and a plot, something is found in the North that a party was to rise, and some persons that were to command it are found, as I find in a letter that Mr. Coventry read to-day about it from those parts.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The clowns new-rais’d and raw, and soon prevail’d.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

"Incur enormous expense, give yourself infinite pain and mortification, and ruin a fine estate by a spirit of unnecessary and unjust resistance," added Sir Philip, in a calm and somewhat contemptuous tone.
— from The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

“I’ll be there right away,” she promised.
— from Jane, Stewardess of the Air Lines by Ruthe S. Wheeler

"Shut up, you saddle-colored old idol," he roared, and shook Pablo until the latter's teeth rattled together.
— from The Pride of Palomar by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

The merchants bartered with the traders, who came from the surrounding towns for the purpose; and the professors of the various religions and sects preached their respective doctrines to those whom they wished to convert, or to those who already believed, all but the Christian Missionary!
— from The Missionary: An Indian Tale; vol. III by Lady (Sydney) Morgan

She bolted along the passage and upstairs in such a tremendous hurry that she did not notice the impish face of Ida Bridge peering from the Second Form room as she passed.
— from The Youngest Girl in the Fifth: A School Story by Angela Brazil

Therefore Elisha refuses even to see him, that Naaman might understand it was with God he had to do; and by refusing a single penny of payment he compelled the Syrian to humble himself and accept his cure as a gift.
— from How to become like Christ by Marcus Dods

[Pg 162] the room, and saw Phonny lying upon the sofa, “and what is the matter with you?”
— from Stuyvesant: A Franconia Story by Jacob Abbott

Yet this division can not always be effected, and in railroad and steamship positions, in post offices, upon trolley lines, in hotels, in hospitals, and in other cases too numerous to mention, where work must follow a continuous round, the working hours are divided into more than two periods, according to the nature of the work and the interests of the employer, not however exceeding a fixed number of hours per day or per week.
— from Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework: Business principles applied to housework by C. Hélène Barker

He is often an elderly holy Brāhman, who receives a small present for his services.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 5 of 7 by Edgar Thurston