But the old witch made a deep sleep come upon him, and he said to the young lady, ‘Let us sit down and rest ourselves a little, I am so tired that I cannot stand any longer.’
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

I reached out my hand, and it fell heavily upon something damp and hard.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

"But so many weddings have been ushered in with the merriest peal of the bells, and yet turned out unhappily, that I shall hope for better fortune under such different auspices.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

This was not the first time I had undertaken so difficult a task.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Enters my wife, as usual, sits down and begins to talk.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"Let us sit down a minute," she said.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

As soon as he got home, Utterson sat down and wrote to Jekyll, complaining of his exclusion from the house, and asking the cause of this unhappy break with Lanyon; and the next day brought him a long answer, often very pathetically worded, and sometimes darkly mysterious in drift.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

She useter sit day after day, a-lookin' at your picture an' talkin' to it an' kissin' of it, when she thought I wasn't takin' no notice, and cryin' till she made me cry too.
— from Grim Tales by E. (Edith) Nesbit

In the preface to his published poems, after the diffident manner of the time, Low says: "Many of the pieces were written at a very early age, and most of them under singular disadvantages; among which, application to public business, for many years past, was not the least; not only because it allowed little leisure for literary pursuits, but because it is of a nature peculiarly inimical to the cultivation of poetic talent.
— from The Politician Out-Witted by Samuel Low

The count, however, was too generous to attack an enemy under such disadvantages, and weakened as Ferrau evidently was by the combat he had previously waged against Rinaldo.
— from The Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo

But the sailing-master knew his business, and the Revenge was safely, though slowly, sailed among the coral-reefs and islands until she dropped anchor off Belize.
— from Kate Bonnet: The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter by Frank Richard Stockton

Let us sit down, and I will tell you all about it.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

They had not usually so dull an eye for verbal wonders.
— from Unitarianism Defended A Series of Lectures by Three Protestant Dissenting Ministers of Liverpool by John Hamilton Thom