The following illustrates this method: A large, slew-footed darky was leaning against the corner of the railroad station in a Texas town when the noon whistle in the canning factory blew and the hands hurried out, bearing their grub buckets.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

It was a most lamentable case to have seen the labour of mortals in defending themselves from the vehemency of this horrific drought; for they had work enough to do to save the holy water in the churches from being wasted; but there was such order taken by the counsel of my lords the cardinals and of our holy Father, that none did dare to take above one lick.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The subject of drum winding is too complicated for brief treatment, and we must therefore be content with noticing that the coils are so connected to their respective commutator segments and to one another that they mutually assist one another.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

One might have fancied he had talked it off; and that what was left, all standing up in disorder, was in that condition from being constantly blown about by his windy boastfulness.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

“Who is that?” cried Father Brown, stepping back with a hissing intake of his breath.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

AT THE WORKS IV THE CALL FROM BRIGHTON V THURSDAY
— from Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett

"Bid that which is to cease from being, and that to be which is not earthly possible!
— from Marietta: A Maid of Venice by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

At the large house where the procession was to alight and the dresses were to be arranged a little for going into church, a hay-cart had been drawn out of the way, into the corner formed by the porch.
— from The Bridal March; One Day by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

The boys had only enough water in their canteens for breakfast—none for the horses, or for their own ablutions.
— from The Trail Boys of the Plains; Or, The Hunt for the Big Buffalo by Jay Winthrop Allen

Maddox poured out the wine, and they were all bowing to each other, when his lordship, who had come down the ladder, walked into the cabin, followed by Mr Stewart.
— from The Three Cutters by Frederick Marryat

AT THE WORKS IV THE CALL FROM BRIGHTON V THURSDAY AFTERNOON VI MISCHANCE BURIED ALIVE A Tale of These Days BY ARNOLD BENNETT 1950 CONTENTS I. THE PUCE DRESSING-GOWN II.
— from Index of The Project Gutenberg Works of Arnold Bennett by Arnold Bennett

This was insuring their compliance; for being used to superfluity, they could but very indifferently shift with no more than was necessary.
— from Memoirs of the Marchioness of Pompadour (vol. 1 of 2) by Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de

In any system of radio-telephony you will always find that there is produced at the transmitting station a high-frequency alternating current and that this current flows in a tuned circuit one part of which is the condenser formed by the antenna and the ground (or something which acts like a ground).
— from Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by John Mills

And when they were hungry they let down the anchor and went into the cabin for breakfast.
— from The Magic City by E. (Edith) Nesbit