Many years ago the Lord gave me a blessed revival in a little village in which nearly every soul in the place, as well as farmers from the surrounding country, were converted.
— from When the Holy Ghost is Come by Samuel Logan Brengle

This treaty was presented to the Sultan to-day in the presence of the Datus and a majority of the people, and after being read in a loud voice it was immediately approved and ratified.
— from The History of Sulu by Najeeb M. (Najeeb Mitry) Saleeby

Helena, as has been before related, endeavoured to keep pace with Demetrius when he ran away so rudely from her; but she could not continue this unequal race long, men being always better runners in a long race than ladies.
— from Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb

The knowledge he now possessed, that at all events one member of his congregation understood him, as Mrs. Pennycoop had proved to him she understood him, sympathized with him—the knowledge that at least one heart, and that heart Mrs. Pennycoop's, had warmed to him, would transform what he had looked forward to as a blessed relief into a lasting grief.
— from The Cost of Kindness by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

"That's what it was," stoutly asserted Bill, rummaging in a locker for a shark-hook.
— from The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest; Or, The Golden Galleon by John Henry Goldfrap

It was a back room in a lodging-house even smaller and meaner-looking than usual, but it was clean and, within its limits, attractive.
— from Pitcher Pollock by Christy Mathewson

'The library is to be open to all the world without the exception of any living soul; readers were to be supplied with chairs and writing materials, and the attendants will fetch all books required in any language or department of learning, and will change them as often as is necessary.'
— from The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books by Arthur Lee Humphreys

And then, as Baree rolled in a limp heap on the floor, she saw his half-closed eyes and the dry blood on his jaws, and the light left her face as swiftly as the sun is shadowed by a cloud.
— from Baree, Son of Kazan by James Oliver Curwood

It was at the close of an autumn day, and I was on a broad road in a level stretch of country with the low buildings of a farmhouse a quarter of a mile ahead of me, and no other building in sight.
— from A Traveller in Little Things by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson