The moment he saw him eat, all doubt on the subject was removed, and he perceived at once that if he purposed to take up his temporary quarters where he was, he must make his footing good without delay.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

I snagged his elbow and dragged him back.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

These sights and sounds had no depressing or intimidating effect on him; on the contrary, they stimulated his energy and determination.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Miss Murdstone shut her eyes, and disdainfully inclined her head; then, slowly opening her eyes, resumed: ‘David Copperfield, I shall not attempt to disguise the fact, that I formed an unfavourable opinion of you in your childhood.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

But it may happen—and this is a very conceivable case—that in consequence of the remoteness of his dwelling, or from some other supposable cause, his Brethren have no opportunity of seeing him, except at distant intervals.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

The whole town had made the match for him before he himself had drawn a confidence from her actions sufficient to mention his passion to her; for it was his opinion (and perhaps he was there in the right) that it is highly impolitick to talk seriously of love to a woman before you have made such a progress in her affections, that she herself expects and desires to hear it.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

‘They increase and multiply on the land,’ said he, ‘even as do the caterpillars in our gardens.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

A wicked rat her plaster stole, Half eat, and dragg'd it to his hole.
— from The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Jonathan Swift

Guests have no right whatever to require that the host should himself eat and drink to keep them in countenance.
— from Human Intercourse by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

This important business being settled, she set herself earnestly and deliberately to consider what, when these three months should be expired, she should do with her freedom, her money, herself, and her niece.
— from The Widow Barnaby. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Frances Milton Trollope

10:7 Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

On Sunday we never see her, except at déjeûner.
— from Three Plays by Brieux With a Preface by Bernard Shaw by Eugène Brieux

Clad in the shapeless blue garment provided by the bath house—Bob called it "the democratic toga"—she would shut her eyes and dive off the spring board, pretending that she was going into the mountain pool in the dark.
— from The Dual Alliance by Marjorie Benton Cooke

When his tears were dried, and he sobbed in his weakness no longer, and was free from that touch of shame, and had recovered his usual bearing, she prepared the remains of his supper afresh, and, sitting by his side, rejoiced to see him eat and drink.
— from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

It was the first time for many months that she had entered a dwelling-place that was also a home.
— from The Disturbing Charm by Berta Ruck