The public buildings here are generally grandiose and imposing; but almost all of them are of the period of the Renaissance, and there are no very remarkable examples of this bad age.
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street

"We three are going to meet on Sunday and have a good go at it," he wrote.
— from A Young Man's Year by Anthony Hope

The other man I knew not, but he bore a headless spear shaft in his hand, and Edred's shield had a great gash across it.
— from King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

Growing weary of school-life, and longing to plunge, as he had said, into the great stream of life, he had happened to mention his wish, on his visit to Mr. Morton, and that gentleman, having taken a great interest in Martin, had been successful in procuring for him a good government appointment, in an office where he found scope for honest labor, with vistas of future promotion, dependent upon his own exertions, and he was as happy as the day was long in his new sphere of work.
— from St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, No. 06, April 1878 Scribner's Illustrated by Various

The leopard and the wild buffalo, he tells us, are believed to be animated by malignant souls which not only do the hunter a mischief while they still occupy the bodies of the living creatures, but even after death, in their disembodied state, continue to haunt and plague their slayer, sometimes egging on a serpent or a leopard to sting or bite him, sometimes blinding him so that he shoots a man for an animal, or cannot find his way home and goes groping about in the wilderness till he perishes miserably.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 08 of 12) by James George Frazer

He had taken a knife with him, the rope was quickly severed, and both he and Hermas, knowing every intricacy of the house and grounds, got away in safety with an ease which they attributed to the special interposition of Heaven in their behalf.
— from Darkness and Dawn; Or, Scenes in the Days of Nero. An Historic Tale by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

This bubbly stuff never did agree with me and I had a good go at it last night."
— from The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

The Oak, &c. is of quick Growth, consequently will not last so long as ours; though it has a good Grain , and is freer from Knots, and will last long enough for Shipping, and ordinary Uses.
— from The Present State of Virginia by Hugh Jones

Whereupon the lady and her aunt gushed gratefully, as in return for life saved.
— from A Likely Story by William De Morgan

We have a German governess, and I hate her.
— from His Hour by Elinor Glyn