The arrow struck our young friend and sister, and slowly singing her farewell song she sank down, a dying swan, into the forest lake.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Without complaining, without uttering a word, she saw her former sweetheart married to another girl, but I watched her gradually sicken without being able to console her.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

I stood still, however, for some minutes, gazing upon the magnificent geyser.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

But now she saw how far short of the mark she had fallen; and the surprise of learning that he had discovered the secret of the letters left her, for the moment, unconscious of the special use to which he was in the act of putting his knowledge.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

ANT: Halt, stick, stickle, stop, hesitate, fail, stint, beat, recoil, regurgitate, ebb.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The Revenues of the said School have for sometime been betwixt three and four hundred pounds a year, but upon the Governors lately re-letting the several farms belonging the School, the Revenues will be advanced to about seven hundred pounds a year.
— from A History of Giggleswick School from its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Edward Allen Bell

And so she sings her fill, Singing most joyfully,
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 407, September, 1849 by Various

His wife was all struck of a heap when she saw him, for Sam was a good husband; if he did swear more than he ought, he never swore at her.”
— from The Game Fish, of the Northern States and British Provinces With an account of the salmon and sea-trout fishing of Canada and New Brunswick, together with simple directions for tying artificial flies, etc., etc. by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

Another poor sufferer shows his first symptom by having his wife's relations come and live with him.
— from Cape Cod Stories by Joseph Crosby Lincoln