—Ay, a grass one, Myles Crawford said, his eye running down the typescript.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

"If you see Mr. Glossop anywhere, Bertie," she said, her eyes resting dreamily on Tuppy's facade, "I wish you would give him these.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Meanwhile Phaeacia's peers in council sate; From his high dome the king descends in state; Then with a filial awe the royal maid Approach'd him passing, and submissive said: "Will my dread sire his ear regardful deign, And may his child the royal car obtain?
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Charles Lyell and Modern Geology THE CENTURY SCIENCE SERIES Edited by SIR HENRY E. ROSCOE, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S. CHARLES LYELL AND MODERN GEOLOGY The Century Science Series.
— from Charles Lyell and Modern Geology by T. G. (Thomas George) Bonney

"What! can't swim?" he exclaimed, running down the bank to the edge of the water.
— from Snowflakes and Sunbeams; Or, The Young Fur-traders: A Tale of the Far North by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

However, during a particularly stormy winter at the seaside, when he was confined to the house, a sustained effort on the part of a determined coadjutor got it into shape, and under the title of “The Life and Experiences of Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S. Written by Himself,” it was published by Macmillans in the spring of 1906.
— from The Right Honourable Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe P.C., D.C.L., F.R.S. A Biographical Sketch by T. E. (Thomas Edward) Thorpe

In 1871 there appeared a memoir by the Dutch savant Harting entitled Recherche de Morphologie synthetique sur la production artificielle de quelques formations calcaires organiques .
— from The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc

The codicil being now accessible reveals a decree creating a fund of ten thousand marks, the interest of which is to be expended in serving weekly a quarter of a tun of Bavarian beer to the frequenters of a brewery in the Prinzenstrasse, where the testator had been in the habit of spending his evenings regularly during many years—these persons being such as survived of his contemporaries.
— from Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills by Virgil M. (Virgil McClure) Harris

Close your house, or, better still, have every room dismantled on the pretence of a thorough renovation.
— from The Stowmarket Mystery; Or, A Legacy of Hate by Louis Tracy