I should like to kick her stomach in for her!” She sprang off of the bed, and remained standing for a moment, her hair in disorder, her nostrils dilating, her mouth half open, her fists clenched and drawn back.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

You see, one of the boys has gone up the flume—” “Gone where?”
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

With a strength which the sense of danger increased tenfold, he seized one of the beams—the longest and heaviest; he pushed it out through a loophole, then, grasping it again outside of the tower, he made it slide along the angle of the balustrade which surrounds the platform, and let it fly into the abyss.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

With a rending, tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon its side, and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed the light of a lantern.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

He had even vowed to drive the saul out of the body of that mad rascal: but, perceiving the unexpected turn which things had taken, he wished him joy of his good fortune, observing that it went very near his heart, as he was like to be a great toe out of pocket by the discovery—Mr Dennison now desired to know for what reason my uncle had changed the name by which he knew him at Oxford, and our ‘squire satisfied him, by answering to this effect—‘I took my mother’s name, which was Loyd, as heir to her lands in Glamorganshire; but when I came of age, I sold that property, in order to clear my paternal estate, and resumed my real name; so that I am now Matthew Bramble of Brambleton-hall in Monmouthshire, at your service; and this is my nephew, Jeremy Melford of Belfield, in the county of Glamorgan.’
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The house was empty when at length he heard her step on the stair and strolled out of the billiard-room to join her.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

As for the flesh of animals that had bona fide died a natural death, the permission to eat it was nugatory, for it was generally eaten by some other animal before man got hold of it; or failing this it was often poisonous, so that practically people were forced to evade the law by some of the means above spoken of, or to become vegetarians.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

My sister was in ecstasies over his scarfpin, his studs, and the red silk handkerchief which he wore, I suppose from foppishness, sticking out of the breast pocket of his jacket.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

A great swirl of swallows came soaring out of the big kitchen chimneys and circled in the sky, darting down again and again upward.
— from The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge, and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree

[292] made in the interest of the working-man; but on the contrary was dictated by the sagacious observation of the buyers that “sight is not so profitable by night, or so certain, as by day— to the profit, that is, of the community ;”
— from Town Life in the Fifteenth Century, Volume 2 (of 2) by Alice Stopford Green

She was singing one of the ballads from the opera of the “Bohemian Girl,” “When other Lips.”
— from East Lynne by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

250 The trough line was very leaky and a great deal of water splashed out of the buckets.
— from The Scientific American Boy; Or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island by A. Russell (Alexander Russell) Bond

He added that the General was anxious to send one of the Belgian Ministers of State to Antwerp, and would appreciate it if I would take him with me.
— from A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium by Hugh Gibson

We felt too mean all over to "subscribe," but we found a light, and soon found in the stranger one of the best sort of fellows, a man of information and morality, and, though he had looked dangerous, he turned out harmless as a lamb, and we got intimate as brothers before Captain V—— returned that night.
— from The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge

Suddenly a red streak shot out of the bushes.
— from Red Ben, the Fox of Oak Ridge by Joseph Wharton Lippincott

Let's see!—O Joe! Tell to the stranger that little scene Out of the "Babes in the Woods."
— from Complete Poetical Works by Bret Harte