You must wrap the old woman as warm as you may, and have her off on the pony to Ambleside as quickly as may be.
— from Wager of Battle: A Tale of Saxon Slavery in Sherwood Forest by Henry William Herbert

The drunken savages heard the offer with a whoop, and yelling like fiends, they rushed to the cabin.
— from Snowdrift: A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

They therefore contracted with the machine-makers, who had already more work ordered than they could execute, to supply the bobbin carriers, at a price which enabled them, on their return home, to give such increased wages as were sufficient to retain their own workmen, as well as yield themselves a good profit.
— from On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures by Charles Babbage

The greatest source of unhappiness I have known in that period has arisen from the long and cruel separations which I was called, in a time of war and with a young family around me, to submit to."
— from Abigail Adams and Her Times by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

The smith and his friends, who had been at first the sole spectators of the shew, were now every moment joined by more and more of the rabble, until a great concourse was assembled; through which the nobles had some difficulty in forcing their way toward the Temple of Apollo, in which their order was assembling, wherefore as yet they knew not.
— from The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Henry William Herbert

"Well, now, my deary!" exclaimed the old woman, "and why are you losing your beauty sleep in this fashion?
— from Red Rose and Tiger Lily; Or, In a Wider World by L. T. Meade

If I quaked before, now much more I quaked, till my legs well-nigh failed me for fear; but Atra said: Great lady, this image will belike be of that one whom a while ago ye had stripped and tied to a pillar here, and tormented while ye feasted.
— from The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris