He was a Gascon of gigantic stature and bodily daring; and the wildest tales were told of his outbursts of athletic humour; how he turned the juge d’instruction upside down and stood him on his head, “to clear his mind”; how he ran down the Rue de Rivoli with a policeman under each arm.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

And when they come to an engagement, what service can be done by such pale-faced students, as by drudging at the oars of wisdom, have spent all their strength and activity?
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

Then, as if with a guilty conscience, he stepped over to the child on tip-toe, smiling, and bent down and kissed her head.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The first of these begins at Calpe, which I have previously mentioned, the most distant mountain of Spain; and bends, describing an immense curve, as far as Locri and the Promontory of Bruttium 808 .
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

But d'Entrecasteaux was unaware of this news—which seemed a bit dubious anyhow—and headed toward the Admiralty Islands, which had been named in a report by one Captain Hunter as the site of the Count de La Pérouse's shipwreck.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Enter E. KNOWELL, WELLBRED, STEPHEN, and BRAINWORM, disguised as before.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

But he had eaten such a big dinner, and he was so exhausted, and the hall was so warm, and his seat was so comfortable!
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

For truly we need to see it, and by the sight we shall be made ashamed of our self and brought down as anent our pride and presumption; for it behoveth us verily to see that of ourselves we are right nought but sin and wretchedness.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

That such a base slave as he should be saluted by such a tall 146 man as I am, from such a beautiful dame as you.
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

Birdie Fowle was left alone to bear the weight of Mr. Alsop’s particular suspicion, and Birdie dropped as naturally into trouble, as a fly into the milk-pail.
— from The Yale Cup by Albertus T. (Albertus True) Dudley

As we drove to the station, the milkmen and milkwomen were coming in, in their pretty carts, full of white wooden firkins, brass bound, with queer long spouts out on one side; brass measures of different sizes, and brass dippers, all shining as if they had been fresh scoured that very morning, made the carts a pretty spectacle.
— from Glimpses of Three Coasts by Helen Hunt Jackson

General McDowell’s order for battle on the 21st of July was issued on the afternoon of the 20th, directing his First Division to march by the Warrenton Turnpike, and make a diversion against the crossing of Bull Run at the [Pg 44] Stone Bridge, while the Second and Third Divisions, following on the turnpike, were to file to the right, along the farm road, about half-way between Centreville and the bridge, cross Bull Run at Sudley Springs, and bear down against the Confederate rear and left; the First Division, under Tyler, to march at two o’clock in the morning, to be closely followed by the others under Hunter and Heintzelman; the turning divisions, after crossing, to march down, clear the bridge, and lift Tyler over the Run, bringing the three into compact battle order.
— from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet

Under the toad stool Sound asleep, Sat a big Dormouse All in a heap.
— from The Child's World: Third Reader by Hetty Sibyl Browne

Then again the scene changed to London—to handsome shops, and beautiful dresses, and rich ornaments, just like Miss Cunningham's; and the delight of going to a play when she liked, having constantly new books, and being able to make presents to all her friends; and in the midst of this vision of grandeur, the carriage stopped at the little white gate of Emmerton cottage.
— from Amy Herbert by Elizabeth Missing Sewell

A mixture of fresh hydrate of lime with an equal weight of sal ammoniac (both dry and in fine powder) is introduced into a glass flask or retort, the beak of which communicates with one end of a U-shaped tube filled with small fragments of recently burnt quick-lime, and from which extends another glass tube, about 18 inches long, having its further end bent up ready to be placed under a gas-jar, on the shelf of a mercurial pneumatic trough.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

See also Boeckh, De abaco Graecorum , Berlin, 1841, and Tannery, "Le Scholie du moine Néophytos," Revue Archéologique , 1885, pp. 99-102.
— from The Hindu-Arabic Numerals by David Eugene Smith

Each rope of the standing and running rigging, shroud and backstay, downhaul and clew-line, was piping away with a lively note, and the deep, smothered, booming roar overhead told how the ship stood to it and that the canvas was holding.
— from The Wind-Jammers by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains