This little bit of by-play excited Annie's curiosity; but Meg was too tired for gossip, and went to bed, feeling as if she had been to a masquerade, and hadn't enjoyed herself as much as she expected.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

She could not prevail on herself to say, “I will go to Dinah”: she only thought of that as a possible alternative, if she had not courage for death.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Then, crouching down, he rested the end of the barrel upon the ledge of the open window, and I saw his long moustache droop over the stock and his eye gleam as it peered along the sights.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

iv. ), when I come to deal with the method of Universalistic Hedonism: at present I am only concerned with the question how far any deductive Ethics is capable of furnishing practical guidance to an individual seeking his own greatest happiness here and now.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Poor Donna Julia, starting as from sleep (Mind—that I do not say—she had not slept), Began at once to scream, and yawn, and weep; Her maid Antonia, who was an adept, Contrived to fling the bed-clothes in a heap, As if she had just now from out them crept: I can't tell why she should take all this trouble To prove her mistress had been sleeping double.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

And I should have had to do all the digging myself.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The young ladies did not drink it; Osborne did not like it; and the consequence was that Jos, that fat gourmand, drank up the whole contents of the bowl; and the consequence of his drinking up the whole contents of the bowl was a liveliness which at first was astonishing, and then became almost painful; for he talked and laughed so loud as to bring scores of listeners round the box, much to the confusion of the innocent party within it; and, volunteering to sing a song (which he did in that maudlin high key peculiar to gentlemen in an inebriated state), he almost drew away the audience who were gathered round the musicians in the gilt scollop-shell, and received from his hearers a great deal of applause.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

442 "That will do him good, and he'll come home in such a tender, penitent state of mind, that I sha'n't dare to see him," she said; adding, as she went slowly home, feeling as if she had murdered some innocent thing, and buried it under the leaves,— "Now I must go and prepare Mr. Laurence to be very kind to my poor boy.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

An almost solemn silence followed, and then, as if slumbering hitherto, the fury of the smugglers burst forth, and a shower of shot from great guns and musketry came flying about us.
— from Salt Water: The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman by William Henry Giles Kingston

He drew near the lowly entrance—bowed not down his stately head; On the instant, as it saw him—up th' expanding portal rose.
— from Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems by Henry Hart Milman

"And I sent him away from our snowman on the same account," sighed Janet.
— from The Curlytops and Their Playmates; Or, Jolly Times Through the Holidays by Howard Roger Garis

I followed him to bring him to reason or to give him satisfaction; but he would do nothing and I suspect he went to the police to complain.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 18: Return to Naples by Giacomo Casanova

The former will be discussed in the next chapter and it suffices here to point out that although there was as yet no organized censorship of the press, the possession or reading of any of Luther’s books was forbidden, under pain of excommunication, in 1520, by Leo X, in the bull Exsurge Domine , and this was extended to the works of all his followers in the recension of the bull in Cœna Domini by Adrian VI.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea

As I shall have occasion to refer to others than the one mentioned, I give in Fig.
— from Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States by Cyrus Thomas

I am learning a fugue by one of those new-fangled German musicians, and I must know it by next Sunday, for there's a man in one of their cities who has the gift, and I shall have to go.'
— from The Blue Rose Fairy Book by Maurice Baring

"Only an instant, Señorita," he replied, raising his hat.
— from When Dreams Come True by Ritter Brown

Now, in an instant, she had placed something so vast between them that he would not have dared to touch her hand or her hair.
— from The Valley of Silent Men: A Story of the Three River Country by James Oliver Curwood