"But why?" he persisted, standing still at last in despair of ever reaching her, and facing over the bush.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

" On this he received Theoclymenus' spear and laid it down on the deck of the ship.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

Such a name!" Mrs Clay, who had been present while all this passed, now thought it advisable to leave the room, and Anne could have said much, and did long to say a little in defence of her friend's not very dissimilar claims to theirs, but her sense of personal respect to her father prevented her.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

She was rescued by the whaler, baled out, and then Gran and one of the seamen manned her battered remains again, and we, unable to save the gear otherwise, lashed it to life-buoys, threw it into the sea and let it drift out with the back-wash to be picked up by the pram.
— from The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Indeed," she added, languidly, "I daresay one of your clerks could attend to it as well as yourself.
— from Gabriel Conroy by Bret Harte

Instead of finding a colony well under way, and in control of the wild tribes or at least friendly with them, he found the wreck of a luckless attempt at settlement, and the kindly native villagers turned aloof and suspicious, and living in dread of a second raid by Caonaba.
— from Days of the Discoverers by Louise Lamprey

So he outs wi' a shillin', an' lays it down on t' table, 'bout a word.
— from Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 3 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Sorlé struck a light, I drew on my pantaloons and ran to the door.
— from The Blockade of Phalsburg: An Episode of the End of the Empire by Erckmann-Chatrian

He had uttered these words aloud; and again taking the sword, and laying it down on the bed, turned round, and perceived that Patience had, unknown to him, entered the room, and was standing close to him.
— from The Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat

Thereafter, losing all patience, she covered its face and stuffed its mouth with a quantity of snow, and, laying it down on its back, placed a large block of ice on its head.
— from The World of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Cheat'ly (2 syl .), a lewd, impudent debauchee of Alsatia (Whitefriars).
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer