He suddenly alarmed me by a startling question—whether I had seen the show of prize cattle that morning in Smithfield.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

The following signals are made by a scout with his staff when he is sent out to reconnoitre within sight of his patrol, and they have the following meaning: Staff held up horizontally, that is, level, with both hands above the head, means, "I have found.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

“For which,” says he, “I will give you any reasonable price; nor do I insist upon its being silver-hilted; only a good blade, and such as may become a soldier's thigh.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Aku ray nigru námung managsúun, I’m the only one who has dark skin among my brothers and sisters.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

And indeed the danger of losing Sepphoris would be no small one, in this war that was now beginning, seeing it was the largest city of Galilee, and built in a place by nature very strong, and might be a security of the whole nation's [fidelity to the Romans].
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

He them with speeches meet Does faire entreat; no courting nicetie, But simple true, and eke unfained sweet, As might become a Squire so great persons to greet.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

Of animal life there was no movement amid the majestic vaulted aisles which stretched from us as we walked, but a constant movement far above our heads told of that multitudinous world of snake and monkey, bird and sloth, which lived in the sunshine, and looked down in wonder at our tiny, dark, stumbling figures in the obscure depths immeasurably below them.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

After dinner, away hence, and I to Mrs. Martin’s, and there spent the afternoon, and did hazer con elle, and here was her sister and Mrs. Burrows, and so in the evening got a coach and home, and there find Mr. Pelting and W. Hewer, and there talked and supped, Pelting being gone, and mightily pleased with a picture that W. Hewer brought hither of several things painted upon a deale board, which board is so well painted that in my whole life I never was so well pleased or surprized with any picture, and so troubled that so good pictures should be painted upon a piece of bad deale.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I stayed my step, almost my breath, and stood to watch him—to examine him, myself unseen, and alas!
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

He stood still a moment but as she came forward, without hesitation, they went on into the Square and began a long conversation, which, beginning by embarrassment, and interrupted by numerous reproaches and avowals, led finally to a perfect understanding between them.
— from Clerambault: The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War by Romain Rolland

"I never known Lizzie give in before," he muttered, and he walked over to the sink and proceeded to have his evening "rinse," an affair involving a considerable expenditure of soap and much blowing and splashing.
— from Mrs. Bindle: Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles by Herbert George Jenkins

Their language, which is soft and musical, bears a strong resemblance to that of the Shawnees and Pottawatomies, who are descended from the same people.
— from Legends of The Kaw: The Folk-Lore of the Indians of the Kansas River Valley by Carrie De Voe

During this colloquy, pure business on his side and mixed business and sentiment on Mrs. Halligan's, Sylvester did not once look the landlady in the eye.
— from Hidden Creek by Katharine Newlin Burt

“I have known such a man become a slave.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

I sojourned at Meccah but a short time, and, as usual with travellers, did not see the best specimens of the population.
— from Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

I turned to where the under-secretary had been standing a moment before, and saw him, white as death, with lips trembling and livid, stealing towards the door.
— from A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards

And here again we find, in the action of the Spirit slaying the purely material form, a reference to the eternal struggle, on the physical and psychic planes, between Spirit and Matter, besides a scientific cosmic fact.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

We should have expected, seeing that He was speaking about three different relationships, that He would have used the plural verb, and said, 'The same are My brother, and sister, and mother.'
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark by Alexander Maclaren

Turning to Israel, he then said, "I pray ye, when ye shall have entered into the land of Israel, remember me still, and my bones, and say, 'Woe to the son of Amram that ran before us like a horse, but whose bones remained in the desert.'"
— from The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3 by Louis Ginzberg