When all was ready for a start once more, the Mole, limp and dejected, took his seat in the stern of the boat; and as they set off, he said in a low voice, broken with emotion, ‘Ratty, my generous friend!
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The powerful chief of the deer tribe is the A[ʻ]wĭ′ Usdi′, or “Little Deer,” who is invisible to all except the greatest masters of the hunting secrets, and can be wounded only by the hunter who has supplemented years of occult study with frequent fasts and lonely vigils.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Here were pompous merchants in white wigs and laced velvet, the bronzed faces of sea-captains, the foreign garb and air of Spanish Creoles, and the disdainful port of natives of Old England, all contrasted with the rough aspect of one or two back-settlers negotiating sales of timber from forests where axe had never sounded.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

And he began, in a languid voice, interrupted by frequent fits of coughing.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

We passed Fort Laramie in the night, and on the seventh morning out we found ourselves in the Black Hills, with Laramie Peak at our elbow (apparently) looming vast and solitary—a deep, dark, rich indigo blue in hue, so portentously did the old colossus frown under his beetling brows of storm-cloud.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

I fixed my umbrella also in the step at the stern, like a mast, to stand over my head, and keep the heat of the sun off me, like an awning; and thus I every now and then took a little voyage upon the sea, but never went far out, nor far from the little creek.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles, there is a little valley, or rather lap of land, among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

He then walked up and down the room; and, when he was again left alone, he went to Charlotte's door, and, in a low voice, said, "Charlotte, Charlotte!
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Do not reply,” he said in a low voice; “you will drive the bird away.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

[In a low voice.] I let thinking alone.
— from Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

And the grand crash from the organ at the close, made more solemn by the fact that the church door was thrown wide open, so that the whole street took part in the family ceremony—the music passing through the vestibule at the same time with the procession—the exclamations of the crowd, and a burnisher in an ample lute-string apron remarking in a loud voice, "The groom isn't handsome, but the bride's as pretty as a picture."
— from Fromont and Risler — Volume 1 by Alphonse Daudet

That it is piteously rent and ragged and clipped and garbled in some of its earlier scenes, the rough construction and the poltfoot metre, lame sense and limping verse, each maimed and mangled subject of players’ and printers’ most treasonable tyranny, contending as it were to seem harsher than the other, combine in this contention to bear indisputable and intolerable witness.
— from A Study of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne

But at the point where this evolution has to be made occurs another lateral valley, much longer than the first alluded to; and this time one which it is not desired to cross, as Gossensass lies as it were on the basement of the house on the third floor of which is Schelleberg.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 695 April 21, 1877. by Various

It even had an alcove with a tiny kakemono, and a little vase in it!
— from The Japanese Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

He was slicked up in his best uniform and looked very fine, but, as a sailor and part owner of the canoe, I thought he should come to her aid in such a case of signal distress.
— from My Life by Josiah Flynt

He had been on a long voyage, he brought her pearls for her throat and coral pins for her hair.
— from Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten by Marie Corelli

The streets, and every avenue leading to the Plaza de los Toros , were lined with noisy vendors of delicious fruits, who made a grateful display upon their stalls of the Seville orange and the cooling water-melon; whilst a number of Valencians carried about large vasijas , or trays of lemonade, and other refreshments, for the accommodation of the thirsty pedestrians, who had no time to squander upon a visit to the neveras , or ice-houses.
— from The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various

Dyke uttered a cry of horror as he ran to the bedside and sank upon his knees, gazing wildly in his brother’s dark, thin face, with its wild eyes, in which was no sign of recognition, though Emson kept on muttering in a low voice.
— from Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure by George Manville Fenn

[3] De la Guillatière, "Account of a Late Voyage, etc., and State of the Turkish Empire."
— from Vienna 1683 The History and Consequences of the Defeat of the Turks before Vienna, September 12, 1683, by John Sobieski, King of Poland, and Charles Leopold, Duke of Lorraine by Henry Elliot Malden

The member of the Dorcas Society sends me this brief but final and satisfactory answer to my above question about birds' ears:— "We talk and think of birds as essentially musical and mimetic, or at least vocal and noisy creatures; and yet we seem to think that although they have an ear, they have no ears.
— from Love's Meinie: Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds by John Ruskin