It is well worth.' Kim danced with impatience when the slim young Kayeth hove in sight.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

But there was no time for such reflections now; the savage who was knocked down recovered himself so far as to sit up upon the ground, and I perceived that my savage began to be afraid; but when I saw that, I presented my other piece at the man, as if I would shoot him: upon this my savage, for so I call him now, made a motion to me to lend him my sword, which hung naked in a belt by my side, which I did.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

At the very time when with keen delight she welcomed the tokens of maternity, this sole prop of her life failed, her husband died of the plague.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

And then, remembering that in England the new-comer ought not to call before she is called upon, she changed her tone from awe to disapproval, and opined that Mrs. Wilcox was keine Dame.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

With what extreme anxiety he engaged in these contests, with what keen desire to bear away the prize, and with how much awe of the judges, is scarcely to be believed.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

The World is so altered of late Years, that there was not a Man who would knock down a Watchman in my Behalf, but I was carried off with as much Triumph as if I had been a Pick-pocket.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

It appears that Winstanley has confounded Gerard with his editor Thomas Johnson above mentioned, who was killed during the siege of Basing House, anno 1644.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 36, July 6, 1850 by Various

Presently we were knee deep and neck deep in the flood.
— from In the Days of the Comet by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

I sigh for the good old days when, for eleven sweet years, no Parliament sat to meddle in affairs of state, when Wentworth kept down faction and the saintly Laud built up the Church which he adorned."
— from The Old Dominion by Mary Johnston

A strange shuffling and peculiar deep breathing were heard in the passage; a bolt was withdrawn, Katie drew quickly back, and next moment the door was thrown open.
— from The Rising of the Red Man A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion by John Mackie

'He was warning me when we were knocked down together.
— from The White Sister by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

At first we may be able to distinguish only a few qualities here and there, and our preoccupation with these may possibly lead us, for a time, to pay insufficient attention to the rest of the muddle which we know directly but have not yet succeeded in analysing.
— from The Misuse of Mind by Karin Stephen

Bergson says, then, that the process of duration which we know directly, if it is to be called a series at all, must be described as a series whose "parts" interpenetrate, and this is the first important respect in which non-logical duration differs from a logical series.
— from The Misuse of Mind by Karin Stephen