Cherry blossoms were gone when we got here, but the young leaves of the maples are lovely green or red and the whole earth is paradise now.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

The sins which these devils represent are labelled, generally on rings around the serpent, and increase in heinousness towards the head.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Besides, a little glow of righteous anger was springing up within me.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

58 CHAPTER IV THE GIRL OF THE CAR “Oh,” she said, with a little gasp of recognition, “are you Mr. Orme?”
— from The Girl and the Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure by Bannister Merwin

On the lee side of the boat, comfortably sheltered from the wind, and just by the door of the captain’s room (which was theirs during the day), sat a little group of returning Americans.
— from In Partnership: Studies in story-telling by Brander Matthews

Robin felt himself pushed this way and that; he struggled violently, driving his elbows right and left; was lifted for a moment clean from his feet by the pressure about him; slipped down again; gained a yard or two; lost them; gained three or four in a sudden swirl; and immediately found his feet on wood instead of earth; and himself racing desperately as a loose group of runners, across the bridge; and beneath the arch of the castle-gate.
— from Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson

On Sunday, August 13th, 1553, Bourne, the Queen’s chaplain, preached to a large gathering of refugees and English fanatics.
— from Old Church Lore by William Andrews

One maintained that it was against all precedent to 78 hang an unconscious man and send him off to perdition without a chance to enter a plea for his soul, and he argued soberly, in the manner of a man who had a spirit of fairness in him, and a little gleam of reason and morality left.
— from Trail's End by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

It was eleven o'clock before Brooks left his seat with a little gesture of relief and lit a cigarette.
— from A Prince of Sinners by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

He stepped to the side of the narrow trail, almost indiscernible at this height, flung himself down with a little groan of relief, and shut his sun-seared eyes.
— from Gigolo by Edna Ferber

The shock of coming home to his dead wife did not annul Bach's powers, and his next cantata with the suggestive title, "He that exalteth himself shall be abased," shows a larger grasp of resource and power.
— from The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 by Rupert Hughes

Mademoiselle drew a long gasp of rapture, and nestled down again with a feeling of comfort to which she had long been a stranger.
— from Pixie O'Shaughnessy by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.