Next was seen a stout man dressed in rich and courtly attire, but not of courtly demeanor; his gait had the swinging motion of a seaman's walk, and, chancing to stumble on the staircase, he suddenly grew wrathful and was heard to mutter an oath.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I would have her branded on the face, dressed in rags, and cast out in the streets to starve.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

He was running here and there, opening doors, inspecting rooms and cupboards, and lighting lamps and candles and sticking them up everywhere.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

In to my tent; the dew is raw and cold.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Then, for her too, as for her sisters, there was a moment when the power of ‘making out’ could turn loneliness and disappointment into riches and content.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

The Kirátas and Hárítas are savage aborigines of India who occupy hills and jungles and are altogether different in race and character from the Hindus.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The rise of this class of writings was due to the need of reducing the vast and growing mass of details in ritual and custom, preserved in the Brāhmaṇas and in floating tradition, to a systematic shape, and of compressing them within a compass which did not impose too great a burden on the memory, the vehicle of all teaching and learning.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

At Rock Portage, where a ridge extends across the river and the water rushes down in rapids and cascades between small islands, each boat and its cargo had to be carried clear over one of the islands.
— from South from Hudson Bay: An Adventure and Mystery Story for Boys by Ethel C. (Ethel Claire) Brill

Without a national platform, 1840, ii. 40 ; log cabin campaign, 43-5 ; its humiliation, 47-54 ; defeated by Clay's letter, 1844, 89 ; divided into Radicals and Conservatives, 116 ; elects Young gov., 120 ; carries state, 1847, 127 ; without platform, 1848, 138 ; carries state, 1848, 143 ; elects Seward U.S. senator, 145-7 ; elects state officers, 1849, 150 ; approves higher law speech, 153-5 ; nominated Hunt for gov., 1850, 154 ; Silver-Grays secede, 155 ; Hunt elected, 158 ; avoids slavery issue, 1851, 163-5 ; loses state, 165 ; Greeley on, 165-6 ; Fish on, 166 ; defeated, 1852, 179 ; carries state, 1853, 189 ; Clark nominated for gov., 199 ; elected, 203 ; unites with Anti-Nebraska Dems., 194 ; see Rep. party .
— from A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 by De Alva Stanwood Alexander

Instead of the pressure dropping abruptly at C , release takes place just before the end of the stroke, and the diagram is rounded at CF instead of having sharp corners.
— from Steam Engines by Anonymous

All are dressed in robes and concealing masks of black.
— from Caliban by the Yellow Sands: A Community Masque of the Art of the Theatre by Percy MacKaye

They were to act alongside of the older local regidores and alcaldes as special representatives of the crown, defending its rights and claims, and fulfilling its duties of general oversight and protection.
— from The American Nation: A History — Volume 1: European Background of American History, 1300-1600 by Edward Potts Cheyney

One of the principal objects of Frederick in this pursuit of the Austrians through Bohemia was to lay waste the country so utterly, destroying its roads and consuming its provisions, that no Austrian army could again pass through it for the invasion of Silesia.
— from History of Frederick the Second, Called Frederick the Great. by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

But to them it was but dawn, and the promise of day was the insistent thing, and there was no temptation to dwell in ruins, and conjure back the night.
— from Thorley Weir by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

The infantry were divided into regiments and companies, under different standards, and variously equipped.
— from An Egyptian Princess — Complete by Georg Ebers

The other day a poor tired woman, dressed in rags, and carrying a child on her back, complained that she had tramped the interior in a futile attempt to beg assistance for her child, and blind husband who was present in court.
— from Sun, Sand and Somals Leaves from the note-book of a District Commissioner in British Somaliland by Henry A. Rayne

and I did it rare and clumsy; it wor to pay a debt, a big, big debt.
— from How It All Came Round by L. T. Meade