In the aerated bread shop near South Kensington Station you would see him, breaking his bun and sipping his milk, with his eyes intent upon a paper of closely written notes.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

When it was concluded, she sank into her former attitude, but spoke not a word.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

She cursed the years that had made her love a burden to its object, and chid her body for a bad servant no longer subservient to her will.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Though instances Page 554 {554} certainly can be found in some of the Visitation Books and other ancient records of a coat with quarterings, the whole debruised by a bendlet sinister, notably in the case of a family of Talbot, where eight quarters are so marked, the fact remains that this practice has long been definitely considered incorrect, and is now never permitted.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

It is ten o'clock on Thursday night, and the dark wall opposite the window shuts out the moonlight that might have struggled with the light of the one dip candle by which Bartle Massey is pretending to read, while he is really looking over his spectacles at Adam Bede, seated near the dark window.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

'You don't want any beer,' said Nancy, folding her arms, and retaining her seat very composedly.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The Beds of Justice it had to undergo, in the coming fortnight, at Versailles, in registering, or rather refusing to register, those new-hatched Edicts; and how it assembled in taverns and tap-rooms there, for the purpose of Protesting, ( Weber, i. 299-303. ) or hovered disconsolate, with outspread skirts, not knowing where to assemble; and was reduced to lodge Protest 'with a Notary;' and in the end, to sit still ( in a state of forced 'vacation' ), and do nothing; all this, natural now, as the burying of the dead after battle, shall not concern us.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The prince regarded him attentively, but said nothing.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My cigyar was not good, so I chuck'd it away in short order; and I came back, and have been looking all about; but seeing nobody prettier, I concluded I might as well take you out for this dance also.
— from Pencil Sketches; or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie

The especial functions appropriated to him seem to have been to say grace at dinner and supper, to see that all the doors were locked at five in the evening, and keep the keys until five next morning; and, by sleeping near the dormitory door, and by making private search, to prevent wandering about at night.
— from Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages Third Edition by Edward Lewes Cutts

“I will trust you.” Then, sitting on a bamboo stool near my hammock, she began to talk.
— from Anting-Anting Stories, and Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos by Sargent Kayme

After the machine was far and away up in the air, it would sail as do eagles and buzzards, so Node asserted.
— from Watch Yourself Go By by Al. G. (Alfred Griffith) Field