Sure enough, before long the pony came trotting round the corner of the street, looking as obstinate as pony might, and picking his steps as if he were spying about for the cleanest places, and would by no means dirty his feet or hurry himself inconveniently.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Sickly and few, the country people neither went out to sow nor reap; but sauntered about the meadows, or lay under the hedges, when the inclement sky did not drive them to take shelter under the nearest roof.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

This man was riding in the part of the train set aside for the coloured passengers.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Sugríva knew the sounding string, And at the call the Vánar king Sprang swiftly from his golden seat, And feared the coming prince to meet.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

I was awed and shocked, and felt the cold perceptibly grow upon me till it seemed to grip me by the heart.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

Now and then an idle puff parted the bank to right and left, their sail flapped impatiently, and in the sudden space they saw the barge that dashed along with the great white seine-boat heaped high with nets towering in its midst, the oars of the six red-shirted rowers flashing in the sun as it cut the channel and rushed by to join the fishing-fleet outside,—or they caught a glimpse of some little gunning-float, covered with wisps of hay and carrying its single occupant couched perdu along its length,—or, while they lunched and trifled and jested, Eve with her crumbs tolled about them the dwellers in the depths, and in the falling flake of sunshine laughed to see a stately aldermanic flounder, that came paddling after a chicken-bone, put to rout by a satanic sculpin, whereat an eel swiftly snaked the prize away, and the frost-fish, collecting at a chance of civil war, mingled in the mêlée , tooth and nail, or rather fin and tail.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The most enthusiastic description is of the Lake of Como, by Paulus Jovius (1552), praising Bellagio,' [4] In the seventeenth century there was some admiration for the colossal proportions of the Alps, but only as a foil to the much admired valleys.
— from The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese

So now he was torn to pieces by the populace and the soldiers, and Fulvius, the city prefect, with him.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 6 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus And Alexander Severus by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

The heavier portion, on the side of the shaft away from the crank pin, helps to counterbalance the weight of the connecting and piston rods.
— from Things To Make by Archibald Williams

They took off his boots and his stockings and found the concealed papers.
— from The World's Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service Agents by George Barton

The same explanation, however, will scarcely answer for the condensed power of expression you note.
— from Letters from a Son to His Self-Made Father Being the Replies to Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by Charles Eustace Merriman

While his companions were performing the duties assigned to them, Ned went down to the stream and filled the coffee pot.
— from Canoe Boys and Campfires; Or, Adventures on Winding Waters by William Murray Graydon

It is full of great sandie bayes, and in the most of them is store of good water; within this iland are many other smaller ilands, which cause divers sounds Little iland. and creekes; and amongst these little ilands, one, for the pleasant scituation and fertilitie thereof, called Placentia.
— from The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knt, in his Voyage into the South Sea in the Year 1593 Reprinted from the Edition of 1622 by Hawkins, Richard, Sir

The truth of this assertion is proved, moreover, to as full a demonstration as it very well can be proved without actual enumeration, by the fact that the great majority of the Irishwomen in the streets are from the Catholic provinces of Connaught, Leinster, and Munster; there are very few from Ulster, and not one-twentieth of the whole from any one of the other provinces.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

It was almost sundown, and from this central point, the fields and trees looked dark and gaunt against the spreading purple of the sky.
— from Mystery of the Ambush in India: A Biff Brewster Mystery Adventure by Andy Adams