In connection with parents, nurse, brother, and sister, the child learns the signs of satisfaction of hunger, of removal of discomfort, of the approach of agreeable light, color, sound, and so on.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

As a little child she wandered about with them, dirty, unkempt, hungry.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

A band of unruly youths engaged in a long continued "students' strike" in a college, on account of their dissatisfaction with a certain teacher, disbanded at two simple questions put by the Director,—"Is your professor a blameless character?
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

There was a loud coughing sound from the lake, and a water-logged voice spluttered out: ‘If your Grace would have the kindness to extend to me the tip of your Field-Marshal’s baton, I should easily be able to get to land without the least risk of pulling your Grace in.’
— from David Blaize and the Blue Door by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Mr. Wright has mixed a little common sense with his theology, and, of course this has displeased the truly orthodox.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 07 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll

With a low cry she shrank from him, her eyes wide with horror.
— from Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Lucy Foster Madison

The complexion is the Abyssinian cafe au lait , contrasting strongly with the sooty skins of the coast; and the hair, plentifully anointed with rancid butter, hangs from the head in lank corkscrews the colour of a Russian pointer's coat.
— from First Footsteps in East Africa by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir