Even the serfs had set all regulation at defiance, and allowed their locks and beards to grow.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

No doubt it was presumed here at home that these frolicsome veterans laughed and sang and romped all day, and day after day, and kept up a noisy excitement from one end of the ship to the other; and that they played blind-man’s buff or danced quadrilles and waltzes on moonlight evenings on the quarter-deck; and that at odd moments of unoccupied time they jotted a laconic item or two in the journals they opened on such an elaborate plan when they left home, and then skurried off to their whist and euchre labors under the cabin lamps.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

But hardly had they touched him, when they, too, joined the ranks, and so made seven, all running after Dummerly and his goose.
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

she asked, rising and drawing away from him.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

This mound was strengthened by intrenchments at its base and summit, and rendered a direct attack impracticable.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Ashmore Reef supports a rich and diverse avian and marine habitat; in 1983, it became a National Nature Reserve.
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Vituperat ó re, a disgracer, a shamer, a reprocher, a defamer, a dishonourer.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

In 1912 Commissioner Napier won a pitched battle with the makers of automatic and pump guns, both shotguns and rifles, and debarred all those weapons from use in hunting in New Jersey unless satisfactorily reduced to two shots.
— from Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

He took out his knife and scraped the roof in places, and brought to light in detached pieces a layer of gold-dust about the substance of a sheet of blotting-paper and full three yards wide; it crossed the subterranean at right angles, dipping apparently about an inch in two yards.
— from It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade

But now she was climbing the hill again, with none too energetic feet, to be sure, and rather a dull and vacant head, but with a heart lightened of a very definite burden.
— from The Pool of Stars by Cornelia Meigs

She always remembered a dark autumn night unloading the horses from the train in the dark, in the woods, and right next to the position of artillery batteries, firing steadily—the difficulty of controlling and trying to keep the horses reasonably quiet.
— from Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch by Michael Moukhanoff