" The limbs of the laundress shook under her, and she said, "I have stood too long in the cold water, and I have had nothing to eat the whole day since the morning.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

And anon Sir Palomides saw Sir Persides, and then he sent a squire unto him and said: Go thou to the yonder knight with the green shield and therein a lion of gold, and say him
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

His strange calm was still upon him and something more—a lightness as if the cruel thing which had been done had not happened as he thought—as if something had
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Wonderful to state, the girls did their part; but Tom was in such a fury that he flew upon the table, scattered the bread and milk about the floor, struck his sisters, kicked the coals out of the coal-pan, attempted to overthrow the table and chairs, and seemed inclined to make a Douglas-larder of the whole contents of the room: but I seized upon him, and, sending Mary Ann to call her mamma, held him, in spite of kicks, blows, yells, and execrations, till Mrs. Bloomfield made her appearance.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

But I thought few of those young fellows could afford to set up house and support a family.
— from Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

Shall we stand up here and see them as they pass toward Ilium?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

But it was pleasant to see how every body rose up when my Lord John Butler, the Duke of Ormond’s son, come into the pit towards the end of the play, who was a servant—[lover]—to Mrs. Mallet, and now smiled upon her, and she on him.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

" Then by the scalp behind I seized upon him, And said: "It must needs be thou name thyself, Or not a hair remain upon thee here.
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

Thénardier intuitively felt that Javert was still there; the man spied upon has a scent which never deceives him; it was necessary to fling a bone to that sleuth-hound.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

It stands up high and spreads far abroad, and is unfathomably deep.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

This news was speedily carried to the king of Albania, who thereupon sent unto him a second dog, stating that he should not make trial of his courage with such insignificant animals, but rather with a lion or elephant, and if he destroyed this one also, he need not expect to obtain any other of this breed, as these two were all he possessed.
— from The Dog by William Youatt

They declared that this was no mere supposition, for late on one November evening, when the duke was returning to his quarters in the Faubourg St. Germain, across the Place du Carrousel, a dastardly assassin sprang upon him and stabbed him with a dagger.
— from Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton by Anonymous

so that herein, in the most universal and catholick Sense, hath Anti-Christ in every Man set up himself, and sitteth in the Temple of God as God, and above every Thing that is called God .
— from An Apology for the True Christian Divinity Being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers by Robert Barclay

It is curious that, according to the second Synoptist, all this was foretold, for he makes Jesus say (x. 33 f.): “Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests and the scribes: and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him unto the Gentiles: and they shall mock him, and shall spit upon him, and shall scourge him, and shall kill him, and after three days he shall rise again.”
— from The Gospel According To Peter: A Study by Walter Richard Cassels

So in a while he came to himself and opened his eyes and smiled upon her, and she took his head in her hands and kissed his cheek, and he sat up and said feebly: "Shall we not go down into the valley?
— from The Well at the World's End: A Tale by William Morris

Gideon Wolf had cast a spell upon her, and she was as secure in his wiles as a trout on a hook.
— from Self-Doomed: A Novel by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

she said, suddenly sitting up, her arms still out before her on the table.
— from Love Stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Gradually there settled upon him a stoic acceptance of the conditions.
— from The Trespasser, Complete by Gilbert Parker

Ateeko seemed to fancy that the sextant was gold, in which Clapperton soon undeceived him; and selecting it, with the parchment and one or two flannel waistcoats and towels, likely to be useful to Major Denham, he offered the prince five thousand kowries, at which he appeared much surprised and mortified.
— from Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa by Robert Huish