So saying, she desired our adventurer to take the trouble of calling up some of the men-servants; upon which the conscious criminal began to tremble, and, falling upon her knees, acknowledged her guilt, and implored the forgiveness of her young mistress.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

For two days we made our way up a good-sized river some hundreds of yards broad, and dark in color, but transparent, so that one could usually see the bottom.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

Naked to the waist, an iron chain fastened to a belt of leather runs between their legs clad in canvas trousers, while on hands and feet an English girl, for twelve, sometimes for sixteen hours a-day, hauls and hurries tubs of coals up subterranean roads, dark, precipitous, and plashy: circumstances that seem to have escaped the notice of the Society for the Abolition of Negro Slavery.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

And as the others came up, she passed her hand through Marya's arm and left Allard and Alexia to follow.
— from The Game and the Candle by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram

HORSERADISH CREAM SAUCE.—Beat one tablespoonful of cream until stiff.
— from Civic League Cook Book by North Dakota) Civic League (Williston

One of them set to work to grease the falls not only of the gig but of the other boats, in case these should also be required, two others cut up some old guernseys and lashed them round the gig's oars at the point where they would touch the thole-pins, others resumed their occupation of polishing the brass-work, while the rest sat down under the shelter of the bulwark and talked over the adventure on which [Pg 218] they were about to engage.
— from A Roving Commission; Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The Lady impatient of his long stay took a Pen and Ink and some Paper which she found upon the Table, and had just made an End of her Letter, when hearing a Noise of more than one coming up Stairs, she concluded his Friend had found him, and that her Letter would be to no purpose, so tore it in pieces, which she repented; when turning about, she found her Mistake, and beheld Don Fabio and the Marquess of Viterbo just entring at the Door.
— from Incognita; Or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd by William Congreve

No Ridgley player was within reach to form interference, however, and after one of the Jefferson men had made a desperate attempt to tackle and had rolled on the ground, the other coming up swiftly brought Neil down on the thirty-yard line.
— from The Mark of the Knife by Clayton H. (Clayton Holt) Ernst

This close correspondence between the changes incident to l , n , r , and the changes which the other consonants undergo, seems to be a sufficient reason for still using the same discriminative terms in treating of their powers, though these terms may not appear to be so strictly applicable to these three consonants as to the rest.
— from Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander Stewart