Thus by the authority of Agramante and the wisdom of King Sobrino all this complication of disputes was arranged; but the enemy of concord and hater of peace, feeling himself slighted and made a fool of, and seeing how little he had gained after having involved them all in such an elaborate entanglement, resolved to try his hand once more by stirring up fresh quarrels and disturbances.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

One reason for the curious mixture of animals and other things which we see on signboards is that an apprentice, when he had finished his time and begun to set up for himself, adopted some sign, and then joined with it the sign of his old master.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

‘After sitting still an hour, I looked at the great room with its smooth uncarpeted floor, and thought how nice it would be to play in, if we removed the table; and I asked Linton to call Zillah in to help us, and we’d have a game at blindman’s-buff; she should try to catch us: you used to, you know, Ellen.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Raskolnikov leapt from the sofa, stood up for a few seconds and sat down again without uttering a word.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Some universal Federation seems inevitable: the Where is given; clearly Paris: only the When, the How?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The roar and ring of swift elevators shooting upward from below made the great tower tremble.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

First class stand up for a parsing lesson with Miss Hale.'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The Count followed to expostulate and entreat, and Montoni, who then came out, rendered solicitation unnecessary, for, without condescending to speak, he took her hand, and led her to the zendaletto.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

"When I decided to bring you far away from the country which was so unsafe for you, I was rich, and counted on putting a portion of my fortune at your disposal; then your existence would have been free and happy.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

She is very much changed...” Adam started up from his chair and seized his hat, which lay on the table.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

If, therefore, any testimonies are adduced by us from these writings, they are adduced for the confutation of those who are unwilling to consider from how great and malignant a power of the demons the singular sacrifice of the shedding of the most holy blood, and the gift of the imparted Spirit, can set us free.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

This post in the Bank was like the first step up for me--and now your husband is going to kick me downstairs again into the mud.
— from A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen

Big black buck is sent up for rioting down at Hein's Bucket of Blood dive—stand aside and forget about it—while some poor old kink is sent out to the pen for running into a flock of sleepy hens in the dark, 'unbenkownst' entirely.
— from Andrew the Glad by Maria Thompson Daviess

In France, just preceding the French Revolution, the peasants were obliged to purchase a certain number of barrels of salt each year, without having the slightest use for the salt, because the crown lands produced salt and the revenues went to the king.
— from The Short Constitution by William F. (William Fletcher) Russell

I suppose she took a deal of comfort out of his tender adjectives; but I think she learned early not to sit up for him, and got over that married woe with great alacrity.
— from English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 2: From Elizabeth to Anne by Donald Grant Mitchell

It separates us farther from self and deepens us in humility, spirituality and reliance upon God.
— from The Gospel Day; Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr

Then came the 'sweet bindwith,' the royal maid, the Prince Sobieski's beauteous daughter, to give her nuptial hand to the only son of the exiled king; and so, most remarkably, was united the equally extraordinary destinies of the regal race of the heroic John Sobieski with that of our anointed warrior, Robert Bruce, in the person of his princely descendant, James Fitz-James, in diplomatic parlance styled the Chevalier de St. George; and from that blended blood, and by family connection, sprung from the same branching tree, I feel sanguinely confident that the claim I have set up for myself and gentle nephew, whose kindred spirit the warm heart of the Count Sobieski has already acknowledged, will not be deemed an old man's dream."
— from Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter

"Didn't show up for breakfast."
— from The Main Chance by Meredith Nicholson

Oh teach us that God dwelleth here— These woods his leafy shrines— That incense rises from the flowers, And fragrant swinging vines, And wordless psalms swell up from out The solemn sounding pines.
— from Old Wonder-Eyes, and Other Stories for Children by Grace Greenwood