As the five were thus trudging along, one after another, they met two laborers with their mattocks coming from work; and the parson called out to them to set him free.
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

Ingúgan na ku ánang pagbalikbálik níyag isturya sa íyang pag-adtu sa Amirika, I’m bored constantly [ 383 ] hearing her tell the same old things about her trip to the States. íngug 2 v [b4] have an uneasy feeling when doing s.t. private in the presence of s.o.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"You hear what they say," said I, turning towards the screen, "come forth and do your duty."
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

On the ringing of a bell, the pupils all repaired, without any guide or leader, to a spacious music-hall, where they took their seats in an orchestra erected for that purpose, and listened with manifest delight to a voluntary on the organ, played by one of themselves.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

By imitating the awful secrecy which reigned in the Eleusinian mysteries, the Christians had flattered themselves that they should render their sacred institutions more respectable in the eyes of the Pagan world.
— 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

And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right size for going through that little door into that lovely garden.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson by Lewis Carroll

They thrust their spears into the terrible snow-flakes, so that they shivered into a hundred pieces, and little Gerda could go forward with courage and safety.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Had mine been faithful to me, I had ere this deafened all my friends with my babble, the subjects themselves arousing and stirring up the little faculty I have of handling and employing them, heating and distending my discourse, which were a pity: as I have observed in several of my intimate friends, who, as their memories supply them with an entire and full view of things, begin their narrative so far back, and crowd it with so many impertinent circumstances, that though the story be good in itself, they make a shift to spoil it; and if otherwise, you are either to curse the strength of their memory or the weakness of their judgment: and it is a hard thing to close up a discourse, and to cut it short, when you have once started; there is nothing wherein the force of a horse is so much seen as in a round and sudden stop.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

George shouted through the tube: “Spread her wide open!
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

But little as they were together, the two separated more deeply attached to each other, if that were possible, than before, and with fervent, if vague, hopes for the future.
— from The Third Miss St Quentin by Mrs. Molesworth

The balloon of our signal corps had swung over the tops of the jungle's trees toward the Spanish trenches.
— from Wounds in the rain: War stories by Stephen Crane

"But next thereto adjoins a spacious room, More fairly fair adorned than the other: (O woe to him at sin-awhaping doom, That to these shadows hath his mind given over)
— from A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury

After dinner he called for a little cheese, which he had been dissuaded from taking for some time, as not good for the gravel, which he was troubled with, and said, I am now beyond the hazard of the gravel.——When he had been secret for sometime, he came forth with the utmost fortitude and composure, and was carried down under a guard from the tolbooth to the scaffold, which was erected at the cross.
— from Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie

it was with everyone, for at Handy Mandy's second turn, Nox's horn came completely off and as the goat girl held it up for the Topsies to see, out spurted a perfect torrent of water that flooded the whole city till every Turner and Topsy-turvy house in it was awash or afloat.
— from Handy Mandy in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson

So the lava may burn a path directly through to the sea, and yet do no great damage to the interests of the people.
— from Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History by Allen Howard Godbey

The essential words of a conveyance in trust, that the trustees shall stand thereof [Pg 261] seised to the uses specified, had, Popham wrote to Cecil on June 7, 1605, been omitted.
— from Sir Walter Ralegh: A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing

Good morning, sir," said Gabrielle, and in a moment she had whisked past the boys, and when they turned to see where she had gone she had disappeared.
— from The Hilltop Boys on the River by Cyril Burleigh

The temptation to show him, to try again to lift him out of it was born of a kind of pity for Fenwick.
— from The Great Gray Plague by Raymond F. Jones