During the summer Philip rode across the country and made a short visit in Hawkeye, giving Harry an opportunity to show him the progress that he and the Colonel had made in their operation at Stone’s Landing, to introduce him also to Laura, and to borrow a little money when he departed.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

The hens and the cock had already settled to roost there, and clucked peevishly, clinging to the beam with their claws.
— from Master and Man by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

CHAPTER V. How at feast of the wedding of King Arthur to Guenever, a white hart came into the hall, and thirty couple hounds, and how a brachet CHAPTER VI.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

“Pish!” sneered Ben-Zayb—the same thought had occurred to him, and the Canon had taken the words out of his mouth.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Then Kalaimoku came to the house, and the chiefs had a consultation.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries The regiment with its officers was to be transported in ships provided by His Majesty's government for the occasion: and in two days after the festive assembly at Mrs. O'Dowd's apartments, in the midst of cheering from all the East India ships in the river, and the military on shore, the band playing "God Save the King," the officers waving their hats, and the crews hurrahing gallantly, the transports went down the river and proceeded under convoy to Ostend.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

"You will be glad to learn that this young man has brought us a clue to the rascals who robbed the house, and the constables have gone off quite confident of capturing them and recovering our property," said the gentleman.
— from Fame and Fortune Weekly, No. 801, February 4, 1921 Stories of boys that make money by Various

At last he made a leap and went through it, but his right leg unfortunately caught in the hoop, and that caused him to fall to the ground doubled up in a heap on the other side.
— from Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet by Carlo Collodi

“In time to hear all that Captain Hervey has explained.
— from The Green Mummy by Fergus Hume

Herr Sonnenkamp told her what a number of letters in German, French, and English he had received in answer to his advertisement; the candidates had generally enclosed their photographs, and rightly, for personal appearance was significant.
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

Pale, trembling, hardly able to control his voice, he threw himself on the ground at her feet crying out: "Alas!
— from Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 10 by Georg Ebers

Then, he added, to clinch his argument: It is all nonsense to pretend that smokers cannot stop smoking if they want to; I stopped for a whole week and the only thing was that I did not sleep and had no appetite; it was not worth it, so I began smoking again.
— from The Modern Pistol and How to Shoot It by Walter Winans

We have laid no hand upon your farm, we have not carried off your women, we have even allowed you to take our Queen, by creeping and crawling treachery; and we have given you leave of absence to help your cousin the highwayman, and to come home with a title.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore