For a gravy, skim off some of the fat if there is too much in the drippings; dredge in some flour, stir until brown, add some hot water if necessary; boil a few minutes, stir in such sweet herbs as fancied, and put in a gravy boat.
— from The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Hugo Ziemann

It chanced, as we searched for other prisoners of less note, that in this self-same wood I lighted on a man who wore the black cross of Brittany struggling with a soldier of France, but as I came near the Frenchman was overcome, and the Breton knight was about to turn aside, when another, wearing the same black cross as himself, stole swiftly up behind and smote him a foul blow which caused him to fall, methinks a corpse, almost at my feet.
— from A Maid of Brittany: A Romance by Mabel Winifred Knowles

Then, without any command, he lay down deliberately and rolled over; sat up, barked; and so, having done all his repertory for her whom he now—as had his master [Pg 136] before him—loved at first sight, he stood again and worshiped.
— from The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive by Emerson Hough

Mr. Kincaid took two long steps across to him, picked him and the stool up bodily, and set him against the table.
— from The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Stewart Edward White

She, who will tremble if her eye explore "The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor;" Whom the kind doctor charged, with shaking head, At early hour to quit the beaux for bed: She has, contemning fear, gone down the dance, Till she perceived the rosy morn advance; Then has she wonder'd, fainting o'er her tea, 150 Her drops and juleps should so useless be: Ah! sure her joys must ravish every sense, Who buys a portion at so vast expense.
— from George Crabbe: Poems, Volume 1 (of 3) by George Crabbe

On his own ship and another, Duncan drew up the loyal marines under arms, spoke to the sailors, and won their allegiance, picking one troublesome spirit up bodily and shaking him over the side.
— from A History of Sea Power by William Oliver Stevens

Then a pagan king, seeing where Oliver was fighting, stole up behind and smote him through the back a deadly wound, but Oliver turned, and with the fierce strength of a dying man swung his huge sword Haltclere, and before the pagan could know his triumph struck the king's helmet and cleft his head from forehead to teeth.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

She was often seized upon by Aunt Sarah, however, and made to sit down to sew patchwork.
— from The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended by Grace Brooks Hill

"She is the finest cow I ever saw—" "Then it's funny the man will sell her for; fifteen dollars," declared Peace, with sudden suspicion, studying the old man opposite her, but seeing only a sandy, untrimmed beard, a strong, honest face, with square jaws, and a pair of the kindest eyes she had ever looked into.
— from At the Little Brown House by Ruth Brown MacArthur

A little spaniel who slept in his quarters sprang up barking and scratching his hands.
— from Jacqueline of the Carrier Pigeons by Augusta Huiell Seaman