Pratap smiled pleadingly as he held out a bundle of rupee notes and two tickets, just purchased, to Agra.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

But names present to us—of persons and of towns which they accustom us to regard as individual, as unique, like persons—a confused picture, which draws from the names, from the brightness or darkness of their sound, the colour in which it is uniformly painted, like one of those posters, entirely blue or entirely red, in which, on account of the limitations imposed by the process used in their reproduction, or by a whim on the designer's part, are blue or red not only the sky and the sea, but the ships and the church and the people in the streets.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

A Screech-Owl at Midnight has alarmed a Family, more than a Band of Robbers; nay, the Voice of a Cricket hath struck more Terrour, than the Roaring of a Lion.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

A screech-owl at midnight has alarmed a family more than a band of robbers; nay, the voice of a cricket has struck more terror than the roaring of a lion.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Our Venture We were standing on a narrow, irregular, all too slanting little ledge, and should doubtless have ignominiously slipped off and broken our rash necks but for the vine.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

At the expiration of eight days Quercy is in flames and thirty chateaux are destroyed.—The leader of a band of rustic National Guards, Joseph Linard, at the head of a village army, penetrates into Gourdon, installs himself in the Hôtel-de-Ville, declares himself the people's protector against the directory of the district, writes to the department in the name of his "companions in arms," and vaunts his patriotism.
— from The French Revolution - Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine

Minnehaha has on the same costume we have before described, and is reclining on a bed of robes near the entrance of the wigwam.
— from Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by James H. Head

Before us lies a broad open road, neither dignified by buildings nor ornamented by trees, page 4 p. 4 but there are plenty of people, and they are worth our notice.
— from A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by William Duthie

The party in power called itself Democratic, but was in fact a body of reactionary nondescripts claiming to be Unionists and clinging, or pretending to cling, to the hard-and-fast prejudices of other days.
— from Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography by Henry Watterson

After this, we got into a narrow channel studded with islands: then were out on the open lake again, a heavy swell rolling in and breaking on reefs near the shore.
— from Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians by Edward Francis Wilson

Funny that people could go on disapproving of you for twenty years, and then suddenly approve because of Richard Nicholson.
— from Mary Olivier: a Life by May Sinclair

Jack, however, produced a bundle of Russian notes, at which sight the landlord's hesitation vanished at once, and in half an hour a surgeon stood by Dick's bedside dressing his wound.
— from Jack Archer: A Tale of the Crimea by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty