Then Grethel gave her a push, so that she fell right in, and then shutting the iron door she bolted it!
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

Taking a last whiff of his cigarette he threw it down, stepped on it, and letting the smoke escape through his moustache and looking askance at the horse that was coming up, began to tuck in his sheepskin collar on both sides of his ruddy face, clean-shaven except for the moustache, so that his breath should not moisten the collar.
— from Master and Man by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

One has noticed that readers, as they wade on through the salt waters of the Saga, are inclined more and more to pity Soames, and to think that in doing so they are in revolt against the mood of his creator.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

The inevitable division: such a State is not one, but two States, the one of poor, the other of rich men; and they are living on the same spot and always conspiring against one another.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

"And a very good business you've got too, I dare say, if I'm not making too free in saying so."
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

For instance, many years ago I laid a small wager with a dozen young men that they would not sneeze if they took snuff, although they all declared that they invariably did so; accordingly they all took a pinch, but from wishing much to succeed, not one sneezed, though their eyes watered, and all, without exception, had to pay me the wager.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

" "I mean only to deny that the word stands for an entity, but to insist most emphatically that it does stand for a function.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Knowing this, the Indian deliberately steered the horse right above the city, in order that his revenge for his unjust imprisonment might be all the quicker and sweeter.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Its inhabitants lead a secluded life, and the only strange faces they see are those of the sponge-fishers who frequent the island during summer.
— from The Earth and its inhabitants, Volume 1: Europe. Greece, Turkey in Europe, Rumania, Servia, Montenegro, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. by Elisée Reclus

In fact, it became necessary to tell of that in detail, so that the reason for many things that happened in the book immediately preceding this, which is called “The Corner House Girls Snowbound,” could be understood.
— from The Corner House Girls on a Houseboat How they sailed away, what happened on the voyage, and what was discovered by Grace Brooks Hill

“You needn't tell me Lucinda Hart put arsenic in the peppermint, though I dare say she had some in the house to kill rats.
— from The Shoulders of Atlas: A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Immediately he became aware of their presence, the man set down his other leg, and waded out of the water toward them, picking up his trifork in doing so.
— from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay

"That is different," said the Quaker.
— from The Train Boy by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

At length a cooky passed between them in dead silence, and the child turned and gazed mutely in her mother’s face, with the cooky just in sight.
— from Dr. Sevier by George Washington Cable

He was very free with me: and by my troth, I do see more reall worth in him than in most men that I do know.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys

“Mars Tom, is dat so?
— from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain