Thus for instance, in asking how they would treat crime, or punish it, it would be vain to put to a native a sweeping question such as, “How do you treat and punish a criminal?”
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Henry Crawford had quite made up his mind by the next morning to give another fortnight to Mansfield, and having sent for his hunters, and written a few lines of explanation to the Admiral, he looked round at his sister as he sealed and threw the letter from him, and seeing the coast clear of the rest of the family, said, with a smile, “And how do you think
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

The wind fell, and prevented Lord Hood from getting between them and the shore, as he designed: boats came out from Antibes and other places to their assistance, and towed them within the shoals in Gourjean Roads, where they were protected by the batteries on isles St. Honore and St. Marguerite, and on Cape Garousse.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

His knees shook, and heavy drops of sweat came on his forehead, and he trembled like an aspen.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

Her serious air, however, during this conversation had surprised him considerably.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He did not like her pallor, her new expression, her faint smile, her voice, and soon afterwards he disliked her clothes, too, the low chair in which she was sitting; he disliked something in the past when he had almost married her.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

For in this infirmity of human nature, as Melancthon declares, the understanding is so tied to, and captivated by his inferior senses, that without their help he cannot exercise his functions, and the will being weakened, hath but a small power to restrain those outward parts, but suffers herself to be overruled by them; that I must needs conclude with Lemnius, spiritus et humores maximum nocumentum obtinent , spirits and humours do most harm in [2408] troubling the soul.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

thou awful, sweet, and holy Dark!
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

Sigurd Ring a Suitor After his departure came messengers from Sigurd Ring, the aged King of Ringric, in Norway, who, having lost his wife, sent to Helgé and Halfdan to ask [ 309 ] Ingeborg’s hand in marriage.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

At last Moura consented to undertake the task, and entering the cabinet, he found Philip seated at his desk.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

Steam whistled through the newly made vent, a shower of steam and hot dust and red hot fragments of rock.
— from Divinity by Joseph Samachson

THIS was the problem he had worked out to its solution—the solution that was now doing more than all else to make his feet settle and his days flush; and when he wished to feel "good," as they said at American City, he had but to retrace his immense development.
— from The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 by Henry James

The medicine-man lies low; may himself profess acceptance of the new teaching, may even really accept it (for it is very hard, indeed, to follow and judge all the mental processes of an Indian)—yes, though it expressly sweep all his devils away, out of the sick, out of the wind and storm, from off every grave mound, though it leave him no paltry net-tearing or trap-springing sprite to work upon with his conjurations; yet the old superstition dies hard, often crops up when one had thought it perished, and even sometimes maintains itself, sub rosa, side by side with definite, regular Christian worship.
— from Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Hudson Stuck

"Don't snap at her, dear," said Herrick kindly.
— from The Making of a Soul by Kathlyn Rhodes

Smiling at herself disdainfully, she gathered up her fan and gloves, and descended to her carriage.
— from The Murder of Delicia by Marie Corelli

A shock lifted him from the saddle, and he dropped to the ground as Tony Brewster fired.
— from Jim Waring of Sonora-Town; Or, Tang of Life by Henry Herbert Knibbs

I pictured her surprise and her delight at seeing me, and reflected it would be unfair to her to render an inaccurate account of matters, such as any letter must necessarily give.
— from The Cords of Vanity: A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell

In his Preface to “The Chainbearer” he says,—“In our view, New York is at this moment a disgraced State; and her disgrace arises from the fact that her laws are trampled under foot, without any efforts—at all commensurate with the object—being made to enforce them.”
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various