There, making as he would speak with her on the duke's part, he went with her alone towards a gate, which gave upon the sea and had already been opened by one of his men, and calling the bark thither with the given signal, he caused suddenly seize the lady and carry her aboard; then, turning to her people, he said to them, 'Let none stir or utter a word, an he 94 would not die; for that I purpose not to rob the duke of his wench, but to do away the affront which he putteth upon my sister.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Mr. Grant Munro pushed impatiently forward, however, and we stumbled after him as best we could.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

He settled himself on the Tackles of a Gun, which one Stephenson , from the Helm, observing, ran to his Assistance, and not perceiving him wounded, swore at him, and bid him stand up, and fight like a Man; but when he found his Mistake, and that his Captain was certainly dead, he gushed into Tears, and wished the next Shot might be his Lot.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

‘Neighbour,’ said Quilp glancing sternly at him, and beating his hand twice or thrice upon the table to attract his wandering attention, ‘let me be plain with you, and play a fairer game than when you held all the cards, and I saw but the backs and nothing more.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

It acknowledges with unsurpassable candour that the object of the sacrificial action has always been the same, being identical with what is now revered as a god, namely with the father.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

confesseth it to be a [4230] terrible purge and hard to take, yet well given to strong men, and such as have able bodies.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

This is somewhat thick, and so are her ankles, but she has a fine pair of green stockings to cover them.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Nothing so amused him as being magnificent.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

"I should say so, and has actually been a little light-headed at intervals all night.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

In contemplating the characters of all these different classes of delinquents, there can be little hesitation in pronouncing the Receivers to be the most mischievous of the whole ; inasmuch as without the aid they afford, in purchasing and concealing every species of property stolen or fraudulently obtained, Thieves, Robbers, and Swindlers, as has already been frequently observed, must quit the trade, as unproductive and hazardous in the extreme.
— from A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Patrick Colquhoun

Some attempt has already been made to suggest the general domestic and architectural conveniences of the next century, but the subject of furniture has not been referred to in detail.
— from A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations of an Optimist by T. Baron Russell

CHAPTER XXXII The first east-bound express that left New York the following morning carried in one of its Pullmans a famous surgeon and his assistant, bound for New Bethel.
— from Mary Minds Her Business by George Weston

You remember what I said about hectoring and bullying?”
— from Sister Gertrude: A Tale of the West Riding by D. F. E. Sykes

On lifting his eyes he found that Mrs. Day had vanished again upstairs, and presently returned with an armful of new damask-linen tablecloths, folded square and hard as boards by long compression.
— from Under the Greenwood Tree; Or, The Mellstock Quire A Rural Painting of the Dutch School by Thomas Hardy

Truly." Anthony Walrond reined in his dun mare and stared dumbly toward the shore as he and Briggs emerged from the trees.
— from Caribbee by Thomas Hoover

He see a hofficier all bloodiness
— from The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Volume 1 by Gilbert Parker

True, Belle had "lots of toys," but so had she; and then she had a baby sister at home, and Belle had none, and "no mother;" and Mamie really caught herself wondering if she could resolve to wish that Belle, rather than herself, might [21] have the doll, and if she ever could be so generous as to give it up to her if it were in her power to do so.
— from Mamie's Watchword by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews

From that time he never spoke of the affair, but when his troops were ordered away, soon after, he almost blenched as he gave good-by to Mary Marvin, and met her sad, reproachful look, though to his last day he never learned whether or no she had discovered Robert Lockwood's fate.
— from Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Complete by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

The damsel gathered up her skirts about her and beat a hasty retreat.
— from Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs by John Burroughs