Amalia Ivanovna herself had been invited with great ceremony in spite of the recent unpleasantness, and so she was very busy with preparations and was taking a positive pleasure in them; she was moreover dressed up to the nines, all in new black silk, and she was proud of it.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Shadaʼge′a rose up and flew away, and the man had pulled out one feather.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

From the silk, Mr. Tix transferred his admiration to some elegant articles of wearing apparel, while Mr. Scaley adjusted his neckcloth, at leisure, before the glass, and afterwards, aided by its reflection, proceeded to the minute consideration of a pimple on his chin; in which absorbing occupation he was yet engaged, when Madame Mantalini, entering the room, uttered an exclamation of surprise which roused him.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

This step was most agreeable to our purpose, as the bishop of Burgos, Don Juan Rodriguez de Fonseca, was wrongly informed respecting these proceedings, and only laboured to ruin us, as we subsequently learnt.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

The demonstrative pronoun is , ea , id , as we learned in § 115 , is regularly used as the personal pronoun of the third person ( he , she , it , they , etc.).
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

“They are simply doing their best to run up against you or fall under the horse’s feet.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

one of our guides lost 2 of his horses, which he returned in surch of; he found them and rejoined us a little before dark.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I have been ruled , etc. rēx ī rēx imus rēct us, -a, -um sum rēct ī, -ae, -a sumus rēx istī rēx istis es estis rēx it rēx ērunt, -re est sunt PLUPERFECT I had ruled , etc.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Then Panurge rose up, and, putting off his cap, did very kindly thank the said Panurge, and with a loud voice said unto all the people that were there: My lords, gentlemen, and others, at this time may I to some good purpose speak that evangelical word, Et ecce plus quam Salomon hic!
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

He was cold and hungry after his long journey in the rarefied upper air, but happy at the remarkable triumph he had achieved.
— from The Romance of Aircraft by Laurence Yard Smith

In order to put down this practice, a few clever fellows took upon themselves the task of hammering some of the most difficult technical words into the memory of a humorous and commonly drunken country innkeeper, at whose house many a Sexa was often held; and the man spoke Hegelianic in his mellow hours, and the effect was so absurd, that the employment of philosophical scraps in his speech was ridiculed, understood, and the nuisance abandoned.
— from Pictures of Sweden by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Friendly_ Reader, use and accept well these things; and if thou knowest any things better, Candidly impart them, and make not thy self Ungrateful.
— from The Talking Deaf Man A Method Proposed, Whereby He Who is Born Deaf, May Learn to Speak by Johann Conrad Amman

Let each committee read up and thoroughly understand their subject, the convener especially should know just what she wants, as she goes about this branch of the work, and be able to tell just why it is needed.
— from Why and How : a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in Canada by Addie Chisholm

To the eyes of all aboard the mail steamer Penguin , which had just run up a blue-peter in the anchorage, the town seemed of dazzling whiteness.
— from The Other World by Frank Frankfort Moore

In another corner of the same room, upon a wooden box, sat a young woman with a child on her lap; the former possessing a pale and intellectual countenance, while the latter was a mere skeleton.
— from Haw-Ho-Noo; Or, Records of a Tourist by Charles Lanman

"How are you, Jim?" he said quietly, reaching up a hand as he sat.
— from The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough