They leaped from their horses and plunged straightway into the thicket after Robin.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Their snowy muslins all splashed and draggled; the ostrich feather shrunk shamefully to the backbone of a feather: all caps are ruined; innermost pasteboard molten into its original pap: Beauty no longer swims decorated in her garniture, like Love-goddess hidden-revealed in her Paphian clouds, but struggles in disastrous imprisonment in it, for 'the shape was noticeable;' and now only sympathetic interjections, titterings, teeheeings, and resolute good-humour will avail.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Here was murder done upon the man Alan hated; here was Alan skulking in the trees and running from the troops; and whether his was the hand that fired or only the head that ordered, signified but little.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

The tailor's courage came back to him; he jumped up in one bound, and the horse went full speed into the town, and right up to the court-yard of the castle.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

She is too tall and robust.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Well toot went I, to my victuals went the Sailors, and thinking me to be a man of better experience than any in the ship, asked me what Wood the ship was made of: they all swore I told them as right as if I had been acquainted with the Carpenter that made it.
— from The Life and Death of the Lord Cromwell by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

"If it hadn't ben for ther escape of Wood Hite," growled the old sailor, "we'd aheerd yer signal in ther town, an' reached yer wi' ther Terror afore them lubbers got away."
— from Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys by Luis Senarens

The water had long since subsided in the Terek and rapidly vanished and dried up in the ditches.
— from The Cossacks: A Tale of 1852 by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

On the 20th of February, letters from Storie in the Tower are read.
— from Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 1 of 3 by Henry Hallam

230 To further the publicity of the work in Canada, moving-picture films have been prepared, systematically illustrating the treatment and reëducation of wounded soldiers in England, France, and Canada, and showing their progress up to the stage of final recovery.
— from Our Schools in War Time—and After by Arthur D. (Arthur Davis) Dean

In that book the sister is taught that— “‘A religieuse has made the sacrifice of her will in taking the Vow of Obedience.
— from Nunnery life in the Church of England; or, Seventeen years with Father Ignatius by Mary Agnes, Sister, O.S.B.

If you are in distress and need aid, you should apply for it in a becoming manner—not approach a stranger in this threatening and ruffianly style.
— from City Crimes; Or, Life in New York and Boston by George Thompson

Madame Midas lay in a dead faint for some time, and when she came to herself she was still in the trap, and Rory was calmly trotting along the road home.
— from Madame Midas by Fergus Hume

From this point of view the small increase of six in ten thousand, already referred to, [23] seems to show that the commercial depression of 1877 has not largely touched the revenues of the Irish mendicant!
— from The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various