Observing all this in the first comprehensive glance with which a stranger surveys a place that is new to him, Nicholas sat himself down in the box next to the noisy party, with his back towards them, and postponing his order for a pint of claret until such time as the waiter and one of the elderly gentlemen should have settled a disputed question relative to the price of an item in the bill of fare, took up a newspaper and began to read.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

She took him by the arm, led him to the table, and poured him out a glass of vodka.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Quickly Aeneas, joyful at the sight of the Tyrrhenian's blood, snatches his sword from his thigh and presses hotly on his struggling enemy.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

We liked Ariosto better than Tasso, and Petrarch had our whole admiration, while Tassoni and Muratori, who had been his critics, were the special objects of our contempt.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The stout turnkey having been relieved from the lock, sat down, and looked at him carelessly, from time to time, while a long thin man who had relieved him, thrust his hands beneath his coat tails, and planting himself opposite, took a good long view of him.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

But whatsoever it be that a priest himself offers, it must of necessity be all burnt.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Seeing some travelers approaching, the Crow flew up into a tree, and perching herself on one of the branches, cawed as loudly as she could.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

c. Their vigils and fasts, their ceremonies at Christmas, Shrovetide, Candlemas, Palm Sunday, Blaise, St. Martin, St. Nicholas' day; their adorations, exorcisms, &c., will think all those Grecian, Pagan, Mahometan superstitions, gods, idols, and ceremonies, the name, time and place, habit only altered, to have degenerated into Christians.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

All through the South there are poor homes of both colored and white families, where there are not sufficient cooking utensils and knives, forks, and spoons to enable the members to eat with comfort, and yet you will find expensive things in their homes which they have bought on the instalment plan, and which keep them poor for years trying to pay for them.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Endo, who had come back from Nishinomiya, told me that Môri Takumi was already at Kiôto with part of the Chôshiû force, and that another part had occupied Fushimi in conjunction with Satsuma troops.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Now, I shall show to you, by the evidence of medical men, both at Shrewsbury and Rugeley, that although Palmer had on one or two occasions represented Cook as suffering under bilious diarrhœa, there was not, during the continuance of the violent vomiting which I have mentioned, a single bilious symptom of any sort whatever.
— from The Most Extraordinary Trial of William Palmer, for the Rugeley Poisonings, which lasted Twelve Days by Anonymous

In the children’s schools is used “The Socialist Primer,” in which by text and pictures hatred of the rich and well-to-do is implanted, and the workingman is presented as the helpless victim of greed and cruel oppression.
— from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, July, 1913 Vol. LXXXVI. New Series: Vol. LXIV. May to October, 1913 by Various

Wing did “wait see,” and as the steamer passed well out of the estuary, and began to run down the coast, they had a little of the vile Chinese weather that takes the form of a gale which piles the water well up and hurls it in cascades over a vessel’s bows, making her quiver through and through, and putting her officers’ seamanship well to the test.
— from Stan Lynn: A Boy's Adventures in China by George Manville Fenn

Choosing the steepest slopes, she would crouch in the top of a tree, and propel herself outward, literally diving until, with the loss of horizontal momentum, she would assume a more upright position and float downward.
— from Armageddon—2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan

Tom and Peter hold on; Trebooze slackens.
— from Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Charles Kingsley

"You must understand once for all, that what Professor Rossano and his daughter may or may not do is no concern of ours—" "So long as they pay their rent," added the Abbé, pouring himself out another glass of red wine.
— from The Passport by Richard Bagot

When the boy explained that, at present, he only meant to check it up, the mollified official offered his assistance with alacrity.
— from The Aeroplane Express; or, The Boy Aeronaut's Grit by H. L. (Harry Lincoln) Sayler

Having said this and prostrated himself on the ground, the sage, with his lute hanging upon his neck, departed.
— from Tales from the Hindu Dramatists by R. N. Dutta