Not anxious to come in contact with their fangs, I sat still; but, imagining they would scarcely understand tacit insults, I unfortunately indulged in winking and making faces at the trio, and some turn of my physiognomy so irritated madam, that she suddenly broke into a fury and leapt on my knees.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

A-gulten , v. to sin, to offend, MD, PP, S; agilten , MD; agelten , MD; aȝulten , S; agulte , pt. s. , PP; agult ,
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Well, we know that one essential form of comic fancy lies in picturing to ourselves a living person as a kind of jointed dancing-doll, and that frequently, with the object of inducing us to form this mental picture, we are shown two or more persons speaking and acting as though attached to one another by invisible strings.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

They seemed to be country-lasses, of sturdy and wholesome aspect, with coarse-grained, cabbage-rosy cheeks, and, I am willing to suppose, a stout texture of moral principle, such as would bear a good deal of rough usage without suffering much detriment.
— from Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne

She said that Olive might plan supper exactly as she liked.
— from The Chinese Kitten by Edna A. Brown

—From the election of 1872, when Horace Greeley made his ill-fated excursion into politics, onward, there appeared in each presidential campaign one, and sometimes two or more parties, stressing issues that appealed mainly to wage-earners and farmers.
— from History of the United States by Mary Ritter Beard

You know at first there was some talk of my possibly supplying Gladstone's place in case of his failure, and I would not be sure of my politeness in that quarter!
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Thomas Henry Huxley

During that religious pilgrimage Stobart had written several times to Lady Kilrush—letters inspired by his intercourse with Wesley, and by the spiritual experiences of the day; letters written in the quiet of a sleeping household, and aflame with the ardent desire to save that one most precious soul from eternal condemnation.
— from The Infidel: A Story of the Great Revival by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

After a short time of most painful suspense to us they lowered their sails and allowed us to sail on towards the shore.
— from James Braithwaite, the Supercargo: The Story of his Adventures Ashore and Afloat by William Henry Giles Kingston

I started to go with her, but she turned on me pretty sharply, and said she had been in the house three months and didn't need to be shown the way by a stranger.
— from The Green Satin Gown by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

,” said the other; “my prophecy seen no one able to do it.”
— from The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton