They cussed Jim considerble, though, and give him a cuff or two side the head once in a while, but Jim never said nothing, and he never let on to know me, and they took him to the same cabin, and put his own clothes on him, and chained him again, and not to no bed-leg this time, but to a big staple drove into the bottom log, and chained his hands, too, and both legs, and said he warn’t to have nothing but bread and water to eat after this till his owner come, or he was sold at auction because he didn’t come in a certain length of time, and filled up our hole, and said a couple of farmers with guns must stand watch around about the cabin every night, and a bulldog tied to the door in the daytime; and about this time they was through with the job and was tapering off with a kind of generl good-bye cussing, and then the old doctor comes and takes a look, and says: “Don’t be no rougher on him than you’re obleeged to, because he ain’t a bad nigger.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Getting anxious at last when no money was forthcoming, and alarmed above all by his patient’s appetite, he presented him with a pair of old gaiters and a shabby cloak and packed him off to Russia, third class.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Descending from her chair, she came and placed herself on my knee; then, folding her little hands demurely before her, shaking back her curls and lifting her eyes to the ceiling, she commenced singing a song from some opera.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Archie told Frank what had happened to him during his short captivity, and plumed himself on having been in the very midst of his enemies for more than seven hours (it was then long after midnight), and having made one prisoner alone and unaided, and assisted in capturing two more before he fell into the hands of his enemies.
— from Frank at Don Carlos' Rancho by Harry Castlemon

He had a host of interests to consult, all of which involved the social, commercial and political happiness of the country.
— from The 125th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry: Attention Batallion! by Robert M. Rogers

The Duchess gazed upon the young Count's face then with calm but sad consideration; and perhaps her own memories supplied somewhat too abundantly the materials for fancy to raise up, without aid, a sad model of the future.
— from Agincourt: A Romance The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

From the fighting tops of the Mikado's ships came a perfect hail of small bullets which sent the Russians to the deck by the score.
— from At the Fall of Port Arthur; Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy by Edward Stratemeyer

Smilisca baudini and puma have two rows of papillae; S. sila has one complete row (except medially on the upper lip) and one incomplete row, and S. cyanosticta and phaeota have only one row (Fig. 15).
— from Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William Edward Duellman

Moreover, she made some severe conditions and put him on his good behavior.
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

for I am sure Miss Willsie wanted us to go, though she was so cross; and poor Harry Oswald, how he looked last night!”
— from The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Vol. 1/3 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

As the red light of the torches fell on steel caps and polished hauberks, on the serried ranks of pikemen, and the circle of white-faced townsmen, the picturesque old square looked doubly picturesque.
— from The King's Stratagem, and Other Stories by Stanley John Weyman