Under the bridge runneth a water, sometimes called, as I have said, the river of the Wels, since Turnemill brooke, now Fleete dike, because it runneth by the Fleete, and sometimes about the Fleete, so under Fleete bridge into the river of Thames.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

One of the younger women kept staring at the Englishwoman, who was dressing after all the rest, and when she put on her third petticoat she could not refrain from the remark, “My, she keeps putting on and putting on, and she’ll never have done!”
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

After dinner who comes in but my Lady Batten, and a troop of a dozen women almost, and expected, as I found afterward, to be made mighty much of, but nobody minded them; but the best jest was, that when they saw themselves not regarded, they would go away, and it was horrible foule weather; and my Lady Batten walking through the dirty lane with new spicke and span white shoes, she dropped one of her galoshes in the dirt, where it stuck, and she forced to go home without one, at which she was horribly vexed, and I led her; and after vexing her a little more in mirth, I parted, and to Glanville’s, where I knew Sir John Robinson, Sir G. Smith, and Captain Cocke were gone, and there, with the company of Mrs. Penington, whose father, I hear, was one of the Court of justice, and died prisoner, of the stone, in the Tower, I made them, against their resolutions, to stay from houre to houre till it was almost midnight, and a furious, darke and rainy, and windy, stormy night, and, which was best, I, with drinking small beer, made them all drunk drinking wine, at which Sir John Robinson made great sport.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Margaret had re-entered the room and was sitting at her work; but she did not speak.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

You remember, as we said, that all things are divided into two classes; and some of them were moved and some at rest.
— from Laws by Plato

The smaller of the two was inclined to resist and Whittington shoved her in unceremoniously.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

61 and 62 ).—These show, the right and wrong sides of the hem; here the rolled hem is prepared as above, but the stitches are worked from right to left, and the thread is carried round the little roll, so that, as shown in fig.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

A tramping of sea boots was heard in the entry; the door was flung open, and in rolled a wild set of mariners enough.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

I followed the direction of his eye, and saw that a very old and white-bearded man, clothed in a flowing black gown, had risen and was standing at the table upon unsteady legs, and feebly swaying his ancient head and surveying the company with his watery and wandering eye.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

There, in the very middle of it, stood the tree of life, and the red apples were shining upon the branches.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Soon after I had seen part of the royal family, that [3] had been infected with the small-pox, happily recovered, and was settled at Koscam in a house of my own, formerly belonging to Basha Eusebius, my friend Ayto Aylo recommended to my care a man from Maitsha, with two servants, one of whom, with his master, had been taken ill of the intermitting fever.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 4 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

A little guarded conversation [32] showed us that we were right, and we strolled slowly on with them.
— from Capturing a Locomotive: A History of Secret Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger

It wound on back across the mountain side and rounded a wooded spur.
— from The Innocent Adventuress by Mary Hastings Bradley

The sun had risen, and was shedding a fine mild light over the quiet street.
— from Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi by Joseph Grimaldi

"You infer correctly," replied Robert, "and we shall be glad indeed to share your fire and food with you."
— from The Hunters of the Hills by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

In this interval, I published at London my Natural History of Religion, along with some other small pieces.
— from Philosophical Works, v. 1 (of 4) Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Editions Published by the Author by David Hume

Lulu had risen, and was standing by Elsie's side.
— from Elsie's Kith and Kin by Martha Finley

The accounts vary in many particulars, but as to the central fact that the Lord rose and was seen over and over again there is no variation, and such variations as there are are merely such as exist in all similar accounts by different individuals of one and the same event.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The First Epistle to the Corinthians by Marcus Dods

guessed how it was; nothing but ruin and waste; sending for money, nobody knows why; wanting 600 pounds—what to do?
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney