A long low house faced us, with porch and flying pillars, great oaken door, and a broad lawn shining in the evening sun.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

At the same time, as she focused the light on her field, and saw the plant-animal lying shadowy in a boundless light, she was fretting over a conversation she had had a few days ago with Dr. Frankstone, who was a woman doctor of physics in the college.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Is what you have just said only a mere whim of the moment, occasioned by your being out of humour and irritated, or is it your serious intention, and one that you have actually contemplated?’ ‘Why, don’t you remember what passed on the subject one night, when I was laid up with a broken limb?’ said Sir Mulberry, with a sneer.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

" The other said not a word, but he glared upon Robin with a wicked and baleful look, such as a fierce dog bestows upon a man ere it springs at his throat.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

With trembling fingers she was draping about her aunt's shoulders the fleecy folds of a beautiful lace shawl, yellowed from long years of packing away, and fragrant with lavender.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

Well, the second night a fog begun to come on, and we made for a towhead to tie to, for it wouldn’t do to try to run in a fog; but when I paddled ahead in the canoe, with the line to make fast, there warn’t anything but little saplings to tie to.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

"Yes, missus," replied the negro, scratching his head, "de horses am berry lazy; spec dey's got de spring fever."
— from Elsie Dinsmore by Martha Finley

The river was not to be thought of, and Blackstone Lake some six miles from town.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

The fashion of this world passeth away, “But love strikes one hour,— Love .”
— from A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton

But there were those in eastern Pennsylvania who recalled some of the echoes of the Fries treason case; and its analogies with the impending trial of nearly forty Lancaster County people were curiously scanned by legal pundits on the Court House benches and by local sages on the country store boxes.
— from The Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851: An Historical Sketch by W. U. (William Uhler) Hensel

“You’re a bit late,” said Jim.
— from Sudden Jim by Clarence Budington Kelland

For women like Grace Arbuthnot are never more inconsequent than they are in regard to Love with a big L; since in one breath they call it Heaven-sent, and the next set springes to catch it as if it were a woodcock or a hedge-sparrow!
— from Voices in the Night by Flora Annie Webster Steel

So that amangis all otheris Sarpedon, 20 My tendir get, my kyn, and blude, lyis slane.
— from The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2 by Virgil

Silent telling himself that he dreamed, and those dancing fists crashed into his face and body like sledgehammers.
— from The Untamed by Max Brand