In June the partridge ( Tetrao umbellus ), which is so shy a bird, led her brood past my windows, from the woods in the rear to the front of my house, clucking and calling to them like a hen, and in all her behavior proving herself the hen of the woods.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

My eyes followed up the slope which, outside the hedge, rose steeply to the fields, a poppy that had strayed and been lost by its fellows, or a few cornflowers that had fallen lazily behind, and decorated the ground here and there with their flowers like the border of a tapestry, in which may be seen at intervals hints of the rustic theme which appears triumphant in the panel itself; infrequent still, spaced apart as the scattered houses which warn us that we are approaching a village, they betokened to me the vast expanse of waving corn beneath the fleecy clouds, and the sight of a single poppy hoisting upon its slender rigging and holding against the breeze its scarlet ensign, over the buoy of rich black earth from which it sprang, made my heart beat as does a wayfarer's when he perceives, upon some low-lying ground, an old and broken boat which is being caulked and made seaworthy, and cries out, although he has not yet caught sight of it, "The Sea!"
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

He only said:— “The 11.54's a bit late, Miss—the extra luggage this holiday time,” and went away very quickly into that inner Temple of his into which even Bobbie dared not follow him.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

From those tall peaks each eager eye The foeman's city shall espy, Who from the wood my darling stole And brought long anguish on my soul.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

“You do not understand me, gentlemen,” said d’Artagnan, throwing up his head, the sharp and bold lines of which were at the moment gilded by a bright ray of the sun.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Sabinus also, by letters, accused Archelaus to Cæsar.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

At the age of sixteen a boy laid aside the bulla and the toga praetexta and assumed toga virīlis or manly gown. 11.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

[Pg 66] pink, blue, and crimson, smiling and blooming like a bed of budding pæonies in June!"
— from The Eve of All-Hallows; Or, Adelaide of Tyrconnel, v. 1 of 3 by Matthew Weld Hartstonge

There were three muskets in addition to the one taken from the sentry, and Barker, leaving his prisoner in charge of Fair, seized one of them, and ran to the companion ladder.
— from For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke

The soldiers grow negligent, and inattentive to cleanness and the exterior ornaments of dress: they become slovenly, slothful, and altogether unfit for a return of duty: they are tumbled about occasionally in ships and boats, landed and re-embarked in a tumultuous manner, under a divided and disorderly command: they are accustomed to retire at the first report of an approaching enemy, and to take shelter on another element; nay, their small pillaging parties are often obliged to fly before unarmed peasants.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The trunk, which must have been two feet in diameter at the base, showed no branches for several yards, but was held a little above the ground by the sturdy and bent limbs upon which the greater weight was resting.
— from The Flying Boys in the Sky by Edward Sylvester Ellis

One man, clad in sheepskin that looked a hundred years old, I saw trying to sell a bit of sheepskin nearly as old as that he was wearing; another had a basket with three bunches of wild monkshood, pink spiræa, and blue larkspur, and one small saucer full of wild strawberries; boys carrying one pot with a plant growing in it, or a tub of sour milk, or a string of onions, or bunch of juniper boughs; women sitting on a small butter-tub upside down, 235 their butter waiting sale around them in tubs or bits of newspaper, they knitting for dear life, or sewing patches on ragged garments; other groups of women sitting flat on the stones, surrounded by piles of juniper, moss, green heath, and wreaths made of kinni-kinnick vines, green moss, and yellow flowers.
— from Glimpses of Three Coasts by Helen Hunt Jackson

* Unguentum Hydrargyri (Ung. Hydrarg.), Mercurial Ointment, U.S.P. —Metallic mercury (about 50%) and oleate of mercury (2%) with prepared suet and benzoinated lard.
— from Epitome of the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary With Comments by William August Puckner