Frederick slipped down on the other side, and picked up some stones.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

Adam had come thither on his pony, intending to ride to the stables and put up his nag on his way home.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Perhaps she will never again suffer a poor, unworthy earthling to walk in the shadow of her divine presence.”
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

Now she caught the low undertone, as of the wind sinking down to repose itself; then ascended with it, as it rose through progressive gradations of sweetness and power, until its volume seemed to envelop her [297] with an atmosphere of awe and solemn grandeur.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"So that's why I'm going to do this," I said, and picked up a hammer I'd brought from my Dad's toolkit.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

He is the same person mentioned as “My Father Osborne,” October 19th, 1661.—B.] and “Hudibras “), did say that in these—in the two first principally—the wit lies, and confirming some pretty sayings, which are generally like paradoxes, by some argument smartly and pleasantly urged, which takes with people who do not trouble themselves to examine the force of an argument, which pleases them in the delivery, upon a subject which they like; whereas, as by many particular instances of mine, and others, out of Osborne, he did really find fault and weaken the strength of many of Osborne’s arguments, so as that in downright disputation they would not bear weight; at least, so far, but that they might be weakened, and better found in their rooms to confirm what is there said.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He heard no noise on board, for the young people were as subdued and still as people usually are who are nearly tired to death.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

It was the same social and political union under which they had been born and bred; and to prevent any contrary impression being made, the utmost solemnity was observed in transferring the rites of pagan superstition.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

369 Many wise and true sermons are preached us every day by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home; even a fair-table may become a pulpit, if it can offer the good and helpful words which are never out of season.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
— from The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant Being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers, calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners, improve the understanding, rectify the will, purify the passions, direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects, and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language with elegance and propriety by John Hamilton Moore

Ricos said that he would head a petition to have lessons abolished and the boys would all sign it, but Stacey said that parents were so unprogressive he didn’t believe they would, and he was afraid the head master wouldn’t pay much attention to such a petition unless it bore the parents’ signatures.
— from Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney

Noakes spent the night on board Blakely's ship, a prisoner under strict guard.
— from Roughing It, Part 5. by Mark Twain

But with intent to sell the public safety, And pocket up his prince.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by John Dryden

These two statesmen, representing the old and the new, the North-east and the South-west, the college-bred lawyer and the country-bred orator, formed as strange a partnership under the banner of nationalism as has ever been witnessed.
— from The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830 by Edwin Erle Sparks

All huddled together, inside and out, long passengers and short ones, they cut across the bridge, rattle along the narrow street, sparking the mud from the newly-watered streets on the shop windows and passengers on each side, and pull up at the "Pig and Crossbow," with a jerk and a dash as though they had been travelling at the rate of twelve miles an hour.
— from Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities by Robert Smith Surtees

One might naturally wonder why those who are so shrewd and provident upon this subject do not strive to prevent early marriages where the poverty is so great.
— from The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 15, October 10, 1840 by Various

I came back down to the third floor and picked up and from there to the second and picked up and on to the first floor.
— from Warren Commission (06 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

"And the little old no-count thing did play off on you sure enough, didn't she, Grandpa?" came from the tear-eyed tot beside him, so naively in earnest and telling such a plain unvarnished truth that even the old General's partisans had to wink and nudge each other as they walked off.
— from Jack Ballington, Forester by John Trotwood Moore

The purging stools, and pale urine, occasioned by exposing the naked body to cold air, or sprinkling it with cold water, originate from a similar cause; for the mouths of the cutaneous lymphatics being suddenly exposed to cold become torpid, and cease, or nearly cease, to act; whilst, by the sympathy above described, not only the lymphatics of the bladder and intestines cease also to absorb the more aqueous and saline part of the fluids secreted into them; but it is probable that these lymphatics invert their motions, and return the fluids, which were previously absorbed, into the intestines and bladder.
— from Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I by Erasmus Darwin