In our own country the larger titmouse (Parus major) may be seen climbing branches, almost like a creeper; it sometimes, like a shrike, kills small birds by blows on the head; and I have many times seen and heard it hammering the seeds of the yew on a branch, and thus breaking them like a nuthatch.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Also it was true that while Lottie disliked Miss Minchin, who was cross, and Miss Amelia, who was foolishly indulgent, she rather liked Sara, little as she knew her.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

n knot which is interlooped so that it cannot slip, like a square knot or a slipknot. pahutpahut v 1
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In very truth, the hare felt behind it the hunters and the pack; it was making for the field; it stretched out behind it its ears like two deer's horns; it showed like a long grey streak extended above the ploughed land; beneath it its legs stuck out like four rods; you would have said that it did not move them, but only tapped the earth on the surface, like a swallow kissing the water.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

15 To the tally of my soul, Loud and strong kept up the gray-brown bird, With pure deliberate notes spreading filling the night.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

The necessity of sparing Laura any sudden knowledge of the truth was the first consideration which the letter suggested to me.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Sammy grinned, for as he said this, Old Man Coyote had winked one eye ever so little, and Sammy knew very well that if he had found that lost baby, Danny Meadow Mouse would never have seen him again.
— from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

Uncle Wellington himself was no tee-totaler, and did not interpose any objection so long as she kept her potations within reasonable limits, and was apparently none the worse for them; indeed, he sometimes joined her in a glass.
— from The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

He don’t ask for no money, and he don’t make an objection if the girl is in years, so long as she knows how to cook well for him.”
— from Hungry Hearts by Anzia Yezierska

In many cases the hired nurse thinks little or nothing of the patient's feelings, so long as she keeps the sick room neat from a professional point of view, and so pleases the doctor.
— from The Priestly Vocation A Series of Fourteen Conferences Addressed to the Secular Clergy by Bernard Ward

I should think, now she's grown up to twenty-one years and five foot eight or nine of height, without being kidnapped, there's not much danger so long as she keeps in the boundaries of civilization.
— from It Happened in Egypt by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

I sank like a stone, kicked off, and made another twenty-five yards before I had to come up.
— from A Trace of Memory by Keith Laumer

Esmond long remembered how she looked and spoke kneeling reverently before the sacred book, the sun shining upon her golden hair until it made a halo round about her.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray