Richard Swiveller comes hastily up, elbows the bystanders out of the way, takes her (after some trouble) in one arm after the manner of theatrical ravishers, and, nodding to Kit, and commanding Barbara’s mother to follow, for he has a coach waiting, bears her swiftly off.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Yet the sharp conflict has usefully exercised the adverse powers of learning and genius; and each antagonist, alternately vanquished and victorious has extirpated some ancient errors, and established some interesting truths.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

“Why don’t you start him up and see?” “Crank him up, Edward,” called Billie, jumping into her own particular seat at the wheel.
— from The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine by Katherine Stokes

Rowe silently corrected his unostentatious edition; when fifteen years had elapsed, Tonson called on a greater poet to succeed to the editorial throne.
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

How often have I entreated you to leave the room when your sister commences her unkind endeavours to excite your anger, and thus give your mother a proof of your consideration for her present state of health, and evince to your sister, that if you cannot calmly listen to her words, you can at least avoid them."
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 1 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar

Those whom some special circumstances had unusually elevated, even when he himself profited thereby, he always kept in check; as exemplified in [327] the case of Tommaso Soderini, and, after the Pazzi conspiracy, Girolamo Morelli.
— from Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent (vol. 2 of 2) by Alfred von Reumont

"But what can I do?" "Send for Gilda at once, to-night," urged Stoutenburg, "convey her under escort hither ... in all deference ...
— from The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

There was much stir, comrades hunting up each other so as to keep together.
— from The Southern Soldier Boy: A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy by James Carson Elliott

[80] Three, as shown by the records of the federal and state conventions, had unequivocally expressed themselves in favor of the exercise of this power by the Supreme Court, [81] while another, James Iredell, had taken an active part in securing the first reported decision in which an act of a state legislature was declared null and void by a court on the ground that it was contrary to a written constitution.
— from The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy by J. Allen (James Allen) Smith