Matvey takes the compasses from Seryozhka’s hands, and, shuffling heavily on the same spot and jerking with his elbows in all directions, he begins awkwardly trying to describe a circle on the ice.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The pioneers generally brought with them no other wealth than stout hearts and strong hands, and it was only by industry and severe economy that they were able to make a living for themselves and their families.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

A thousand times a day rough voices blessed her, and smiles of unwonted softness stole over hard faces, as she passed; and when she tripped fearlessly over dangerous places, rough, sooty hands were stretched involuntarily out to save her, and smooth her path.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat, Chief of the angelick guards, awaiting night; About him exercised heroick games The unarmed youth of Heaven, but nigh at hand Celestial armoury, shields, helms, and spears, Hung high with diamond flaming, and with gold.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

The mill is a long stone structure, one story high and several hundred feet in length.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The story, how a Sorcerer had been carried away by the Devil, was soon noised about Madrid; and for some days the whole City was employed in discussing the subject.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

It was not strong enough to impell him to sacrifice himself and spare her, but it was a strong emotion.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The horse refused, flung up a scornful heel, And saw his comrade die beneath the weight:-- And saw his wrong too late; For on his own proud back They put the ass's pack, And over that, beside, They put the ass's hide.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

“Seize him and strip him, slaves,” said the knight, “and let the fathers of his race assist him if they can.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

For, as she fled toward the mere hard by, A serpent stung her, and she had to die.
— from Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III by John Addington Symonds

She was a Portuguese of Macao, and though her three daughters and two sons were strong and robust, she had always struck him as being of a delicate physique—the very antithesis of her husband, whose fame as an athlete was known from one end of the Pacific to the other.
— from Tessa 1901 by Louis Becke

Sir Gawain would fain have had her look her best by night, when he alone would see her, and show her repulsive visage, if at all, to others.
— from The Age of Chivalry by Thomas Bulfinch

Then the silly lamb wished she had been shut up in the fold; but the fold [Pg 68] was a great way off,—and the wolf saw her, and seized her, and carried her away to a dismal dark den, all covered with bones and blood; and there the wolf had two cubs, and the wolf said to them, Here, I have brought you a young fat lamb—and so the cubs took her, and growled over her a little while, and then tore her to pieces, and ate her up.
— from Charles' Journey to France, and Other Tales by Mrs. (Anna Letitia) Barbauld

The longest day recorded in the almanac dawned clear and fair, and Mrs. Rosamond, rising at an unearthly early hour, started for Islington, where she had promised to breakfast with a relative—an unusual kind of feat to attempt, but easy of accomplishment by leaving Shepherd’s Bush very early for the Bank of England, where, as it was explained to her in an off-hand, businesslike manner by her sister’s husband, all she had to do was to hit the right subway, book afresh at the Bank Station of the City and South London Electric Railway, and “in a jiffy, as easy as A B C” (so he put it)
— from Tube, Train, Tram, and Car; or, Up-to-date locomotion by Arthur H. (Arthur Henry) Beavan

page 3 p. 3 The spring assizes for the county, had also long been held in the Town-Hall of Horsham; but this privilege was selfishly abstracted from the town, by the inhabitants of Lewes; and even the county gaol, which has been stationed here, for time immemorial, is, we understand, to be removed to the all devouring eastern rival: the quarter sessions however, are still held here.
— from The History and Antiquities of Horsham by Howard Dudley

In consequence of her unsatisfactory condition the Commissioners ordered her removal to another asylum (the York Retreat), and about twelve months afterwards saw her there, and made an entry to the effect that since her admission she had never been in restraint or seclusion; that her destructive and dirty habits had been corrected by constant attention, exercise out of doors, and association with other patients.
— from Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke

Raised to quick fury by a vicious remark of the tout who held him in leash, he suddenly stretched out a strong hand, and, seizing his insulter by the collar, gave him a quick twist that laid him on his back.
— from Thoroughbreds by William Alexander Fraser

And as she thought of the heavy stupidity of her late visitor she shrugged herself and shook herself again violently, and clutched up her robe still more closely.
— from The Claverings by Anthony Trollope