"I will hope that I may keep my old thoughts, the father in the mill, and the mother, great ones and little ones—the family; for I call them all, great and little, the company of thoughts, because I must, and cannot refrain from it.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The Apparitor gazed and listened—all was quiet—slowly he thrust forward his hand through the hemp, and, separating the dense mass of stalks, swam through the greenery as a fisherman dives beneath the water.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

And he is now sat down, with great persuasion, to a game at loo.—Come, you must make your appearance, lady fair; for he is too sullen to attend you, I doubt.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

To this the saddle only replied by grinding his teeth, and giving a lash to Daisy.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Nadyezhda Fyodorovna drank one glass and then another, got a little drunk and forgot about Kirilin.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Happily, the Squire came out too and gave a loud greeting to her father, so that, somehow, under cover of this noise she seemed to find concealment for her confusion and neglect of any suitably formal behaviour, while she was being lifted from the pillion by strong arms which seemed to find her ridiculously small and light.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

Bob trembled, and got a little nearer to the ruler.
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Now, though complaints against the Illyrians had reached the Roman government in times past, they had always been 106 neglected; but now when more and more persons approached the Senate on this subject, they appointed two ambassadors, Gaius and Lucius Coruncanius, to go to Illyricum and investigate the matter.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Jilin thought, and gave a low whistle.
— from Tolstoi for the young: Select tales from Tolstoi by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Obj. 2: Further, according to Augustine (Gen. ad lit.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

The bluers, too, gave a hand in this work without extra remuneration, except that when a fair is finished they are given a lift on the waggons as far as the next town to which the shows are going.
— from Twenty Years of Spoof and Bluff by Carlton

Our retreat was the residence of an extremely worthy and learned, but somewhat prosy clergyman; who, having been ousted from his pastoral charge of the discontented souls in his parish, occupied his time and gained a living by the culture of corn, potatoes, tame oats and wild young gentlemen.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 6, December 1850 by Various

It offers no consolation to any good and loving man.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

A few yards from the house he again spurred him to a gallop, and, leaning far down by the animal's side, deftly picked a bottle from among the grass.
— from The Cow Puncher by Robert J. C. Stead

When about to build, the little pair seek a quiet spot in which to make their nest, preferring a rock thickly covered with bushes; and there upon the ground they construct their home, forming it of [122] twigs and grass, and lining the interior most delicately with fine moss and horsehair.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 1 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

"Mother has gone to Montsou to try and get a loaf," said Pierronne again.
— from Germinal by Émile Zola