Thus the night fled away, as if it were a winged steed, and he careering on it; morning came, and peeped, blushing, through the curtains; and at last sunrise threw a golden beam into the study and laid it right across the minister's bedazzled eyes.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Then, after a long silence, the Thing began to shake, and I thought it was shaken by some secret malady.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Thus the night fled away, as if it were a winged steed, and he careering on it; morning came, and peeped, blushing, through the curtains; and at last sunrise threw a golden beam into the study, and laid it right across the minister's bedazzled eyes.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

With a landscape depicted in a few lines, and a little story told in a few sentences you think one can give the true characteristics of a country, make it living, visible, dramatic.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The traitorous abbe consulted me, and I like a fool and a liar, said there was a likeness.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Colin was standing upright—upright—as straight as an arrow and looking strangely tall—his head thrown back and his strange eyes flashing lightning.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

He put in an appearance at lectures simply to answer to his name, and after thus attesting his presence, departed forthwith.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

After a little supper to bed. 7th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

,” said she, softening down, and a little shifting the subject, “when you think of that old kinsman of yours, you KNOW there must be a secret closet in this chimney.”
— from I and My Chimney by Herman Melville

It was a temptation to drive in, with the hack's armor between me and any little surprises that might be waiting, but I liked the idea of staging a surprise of my own.
— from The King of the City by Keith Laumer

There isn’t time to go into detail now, but a couple of months ago, our department received an anonymous letter saying that Doctor Winn would bear watching.
— from Dorothy Dixon and the Double Cousin by Dorothy Wayne

Well, he sat to dinner one day in the tavern, and a lady says to him:— “'Well, Mister Harris, I hear you're a great travler.'
— from Life in the Far West by George Frederick Augustus Ruxton

The King, after a long speech to the assembly, takes the civic oath, together with all the members.
— from Historical Epochs of the French Revolution With The Judgment And Execution Of Louis XVI., King Of France And A List Of The Members Of The National Convention, Who Voted For And Against His Death by Henry Goudemetz

I hope, on my return, to lead a quiet, recluse life, but God knows and does best for us all; at least, so they say, and I have nothing to object, as, on the whole, I have no reason to complain of my lot.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 1 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

After a little she turned to Mallinson.
— from The Philanderers by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

The segments composing it are markedly smaller than the remainder of the cells of the germinal disc, but possess nuclei of an absolutely larger size than do the other cells.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

He foresaw a journey to South Africa, a long stay there.
— from Till the Clock Stops by J. J. (John Joy) Bell