First he would give some little springs, then make a bow; then, with his slim legs, he would give a lively spring in the air, clapping his feet as he did so, and then turn round cleverly, skipping and frisking about in a comical manner, smiling as if he had an audience, twisting his poor little puppet-like body, bowing pathetic and ridiculous little greetings into the empty air.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

But in the western or black chamber the effect of the fire-light that streamed upon the dark hangings through the blood-tinted panes, was ghastly in the extreme, and produced so wild a look upon the countenances of those who entered, that there were few of the company bold enough to set foot within its precincts at all.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

It would hardly serve our purpose to go into the extraordinarily intricate and unsettled discussion concerning the origin and significance of the marriage classes, or to go more deeply into their relation to totemism.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

p. 435, 436,) the Catholics (on this occasion) have surpassed the Greeks in the elegance of their superstition.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

He could see the whole front of Toad Hall, glowing in the evening sunshine, the pigeons settling by twos and threes along the straight line of the roof; the garden, a blaze of flowers; the creek that led up to the boat-house, the little wooden bridge that crossed it; all tranquil, uninhabited, apparently waiting for his return.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

If a man find his wife suffering violence, he may kill the violator, and be guiltless in the eye of the law; or if a person kill another in warding off death from his father or mother or children or brethren or wife who are doing no wrong, he shall assuredly be guiltless.
— from Laws by Plato

The next gate in the east is called Aeldgate, of the antiquity or age thereof.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Only we know it not, because memory writes no record, and earth hath gathered in the earth she lent us, for none have saved our glory from the grave.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

[1459] Garcias ab Horto writes of one whom he saw at Goa in the East Indies, that took ten drams of opium in three days; and yet consulto loquebatur , spake understandingly, so much can custom do.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

However, in that case too, White's chances are good in the end-game which ensues after: 15.
— from Chess Strategy by Edward Lasker

" "Most vegetable gardeners in the East do not find it profitable to irrigate.
— from Three Acres and Liberty by Bolton Hall

Yet so great is the elasticity of youth, and so brave and cheerful was the girl's temperament for the most part, that within an hour of such prostrating attacks and violent revolts, she would be on her way with her own little tea-pot to the retiring-room, where the lady probationers and sisters assembled in order to profit by the great boiler steaming on the hob for their women's refreshment of tea.
— from A Houseful of Girls by Sarah Tytler

" II A MEMORABLE SABBATH The Glenoro Presbyterian Church, which the two old men were entering, was a bare, white structure, very grand in the eyes of the old folk who remembered the little log building where Mr. McAlpine, their first minister, used to preach.
— from Duncan Polite, the Watchman of Glenoro by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor

Give it to 'em, my boy!
— from The Aztec Treasure-House by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

When the gravy is thick enough add hot water to prevent the burning of the vegetables.
— from The Italian Cook Book The Art of Eating Well; Practical Recipes of the Italian Cuisine, Pastries, Sweets, Frozen Delicacies, and Syrups by Maria Gentile

I will only call attention to one other kinship usage of more general interest, that embraced in the term ‘teknonymy’, the custom of denoting an individual in terms of his relationship to a child, viz.
— from Culture & Ethnology by Robert Harry Lowie

All are but parts, of one stupendous whole, Whose body nature is, and God the soul; That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth, as in the etherial frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze; Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part.
— from The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, vol. 3 (of 4) part 2 (of 2) by Valmiki

You are grieved and there is grief in the expression of your countenance but it is gentle and sweet.
— from Mathilda by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley