Then downe againe she fell unto the ground; But he her quickly reared up againe: 205 Thrise did she sinke adowne in deadly swownd And thrise he her reviv'd with busie paine, At last when life recover'd had the raine, And over-wrestled his strong enemie, With foltring tong, and trembling every vaine, 210 Tell on (quoth she) the wofull Tragedie, The which these reliques sad present unto mine eie.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

And so, under pretence of softening the previous outrage, of stroking and soothing me into placidity, you stick a sly penknife under my ear! Go on: what fault do you find with me, pray?
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Another time, he suddenly placed under my eyes photographs of the bodies of my husband and my mother, as they had been found on the morning after the crime....
— from My Memoirs by Marguerite Steinheil

My father also bestowed some pains upon me, especially after my fifth year.
— from Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

" "I did not know that," I said, pricking up my ears.
— from The Man Without a Memory by Arthur W. Marchmont

The country around is interesting: on the north-west is a fine wooded hill—to the south a valley through which flows the Cothi, a fair river, the one whose murmur had come so pleasingly upon my ear in the depth of night.
— from The Pocket George Borrow Passages chosen from the works of George Borrow by George Borrow

L. Footnote 1: From this date to the end of the series the Saturday papers upon Milton exceed the usual length of a Spectator essay.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

“I shall put up my en tout cas then,” said Craven very seriously.
— from December Love by Robert Hichens

The bales are brought from the interior to the shipping ports upon mules, each animal carrying two bales; and it is a pretty sight to witness, say 150 mules at a time, crossing mountains and rugged paths with their burdens, followed by perhaps fifty camels laden with cotton, marching to the merry tinkle of the bells on their necks.
— from Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings

From time to time, amid the whirl of words, I could hear a gentle and softly modulated voice, which struck pleasantly upon my ear after the long weeks during which I had listened only to the rude dialect of the dalesmen.
— from The Man from Archangel, and Other Tales of Adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle

Confirmat hoc magnitudo insignis venae arteriosae, quae nec talis nec tanta esset facta, nec tantam a corde ipso vim purissimi sanguinis in pulmones emitteret, ob solum eorum nutrimentum; nec cor pulmonibus hac ratione serviret, cum praesertim antea in embryone solerent pulmones ipsi aliunde nutriri, ob membranulas illas seu valvulas cordis, usque ad horum nativitatem; ut docet Galenus, &c. Itaque ille spiritus a sinistro cordis ventriculo arterias totius corporis deinde transfunditur, ita ut qui tenuior est, superiora petit, ubi magis elaboratur, praecipue in plexu retiformi, sub basi cerebri sito, ubi ex vitali fieri incipit animalis, ad propriam rationalis animae rationem accedens.''
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg