The baleful sounds had hardly died away, and Mr Swiveller was still sitting in a very grim state in the clients’ chair, when there came a ring—or, if we may adapt the sound to his then humour, a knell—at the office bell.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Accordingly there came to him Antiochus, king of Commalena, Sampsigeratnus, king of Emesa, and Cotys, who was king of the Lesser Armenia, and Polemo, who was king of Pontus, as also Herod his brother, who was king of Chalcis.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Goody Liu could not however muster the courage to go by, but having shaken her clothes, and said a few more seasonable words to Pan Erh, she subsequently squatted in front of the side gate, whence she could see a number of servants, swelling out their chests, pushing out their stomachs, gesticulating with their hands and kicking their feet about, while they were seated at the main entrance chattering about one thing and another.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Their pessimism comes to them not casually from outside, but from the depths of their own brains, and only after they have exhaustively studied the Hegels and Kants of all sorts, have suffered, have made no end of mistakes, in fact—when they have climbed the whole ladder from bottom to top.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I can't tell him about Ken—because, after all, what is there to tell?
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Jupiter saw what simple and foolish creatures they were, but to keep them quiet and make them think they had a king he threw down a huge log, which fell into the water with a great splash.
— from The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter by Aesop

I'd love to hear a kettle sing like that, Murray; wouldn't you?"
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

From the time of Descartes to Hume and Kant it has had little or nothing to do with facts of science.
— from Meno by Plato

No greater misery than for a lord to have a knight's living, a gentleman a yeoman's, not to be able to live as his birth and place require.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The child that hung at knees Now stands on the great shoulders of De Burgh, And ports himself a giant o'er our heads.
— from Lords and Lovers, and Other Dramas by Olive Tilford Dargan

They only came when an animal was killed for meat, and would then hang about, keeping a sharp eye on the proceedings and watching their chance.
— from Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

When they met they hugged and kissed each other, a custom among the peon classes.
— from The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas. The Story of the Slaughter of the Buffalo. Westward among the Big Game and Wild Tribes. A Story of Mountain and Plain by John R. Cook

uth when they heard a knocking at the door.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

But most assuredly he had only said what he desired to say, for a purpose that he alone knew of, and in a firm, gentle, and deliberate voice by which one could tell that each word had been weighed and determined beforehand.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola

We are going to have a kick about on Thursday—the first dance in the season.
— from John Herring: A West of England Romance. Volume 1 (of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Then he aimed a great blow, and struck the wolf on the head, and killed him on the spot!
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

He paused, only to continue with fire: "Or, if they have ambitions, know what they would best [261] like to do, how helpless they are.
— from Suzanna Stirs the Fire by Emily Calvin Blake

They put on the habit of suppliants, and ran about, on foot and in dirt, through all the tribes to beg voices; they flattered the poorest artisans, and carried a nomenclator with them, to whisper in their ear every man’s name, lest they should mistake it in their salutations; they shook the hand, and kissed the cheek of every popular tradesman; they stood all day at every market in the public places, to show and ingratiate themselves to the rout; they employed all their friends to solicit for them; they kept open tables in every street; they distributed wine, and bread, and money, even to the vilest of the people.
— from Cowley's Essays by Abraham Cowley

Lieutenant Shelby (the hero at King's Mountain, and afterward governor of Kentucky) was left in command of a garrison at Point Pleasant, until July, 1775.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing