After a little pause, he added, smiling, 'He will pour out to you more blessings than you are now able to hold.'
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

But somehow or other her mother at last persuaded her, and she was forced to tell the whole story.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

And there stood the minister, with his hand over his heart; and Hester Prynne, with the embroidered letter glimmering on her bosom; and little Pearl, herself a symbol, and the connecting link between those two.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

'A Little Pilgrim' has apparently solved it, and, indeed, it seems on reading this little book as if there were a great probability about it.
— from Famous Women: George Sand by Bertha Thomas

Will she dare believe this is love? "Do you not look a little pale?" he asks, solicitously.
— from Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda M. Douglas

He carried a bag partly filled with gum and in one hand a long pole having a small shovel-shaped piece of steel fastened to one end.
— from Muskrat City by Henry Abbott

One of the Bedwyn ones bears a lion passant holding a scimitar, with the motto: "Feare .
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 87, June 28, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

With just a little polish here, a slight erasure there, You got it into shape at last, and made your copy fair.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 107, December 22, 1894 by Various

On a bluff, a few hundred yards from the pier, stood a low, picturesque house, almost surrounded by a grove.
— from The House of Martha by Frank Richard Stockton