He was bolt upright now, throwing his arms wide with a gesture in which there was more appeal than indignation "Look at me!
— from The Wild Olive: A Novel by Basil King

Athelstan met them at Brunanburgh, a place at present unknown, near the Humber, and with his valiant West-Saxons attacking Anlaff, whilst his cousin Turketil, at the head of the Londoners, fell on the Scots, he gained a most complete victory, which he ascribed to the intercession of Saint John of Beverly.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Vol. 7. July by Alban Butler

“If I can manage to sneak up nearer to him as we talk,” he resumed, “you look out and back me up smart.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 19 by Robert Louis Stevenson

He seemed in a hurry, but he pulled up nevertheless to have a word with Starr.
— from Starr, of the Desert by B. M. Bower

Let us not throw history aside when we are proving a theory, and take it up again when we have to refute an objection founded on the principles of that theory.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

I was brought up never to hurt a woman.
— from Plays : Fourth Series by John Galsworthy

It is often unpleasant not to have a watch; but, at all events, in a furnished lodging-house there should be a clock on each mantel.
— from Monsieur Cherami by Paul de Kock

3— U NLOCKING THE H ANDCUFFS WITH THE K EY.
— from The Old and the New Magic by Henry Ridgely Evans